Punjab Election 2022: Jalandhar Cantt. Assembly Seat
]Punjab Election: Jalandhar Cantt. Assembly Constituency 2022
Jalandhar Cantt. is one of the 117 Punjab Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Jalandhar district. Punjab Assembly Election 2022 for Jalandhar Cantt. was held on February 20 and the result was declared on March 10.
In 2017, the Jalandhar Cantt. assembly seat had 1,84,478 registered voters. Of the, 97,726 were male and 86,752 were female voters. 0.8% of votes were casted for NOTA.
In the Punjab Legislative Assembly Election 2017, Jalandhar Cantt. constituency had 9 candidates for assembly seat contention. Total 77 seats were won by the Indian National Congress, Jalandhar Cantt. was one of them. The election for Jalandhar Cantt. seat was comfortably won by Indian National Congress's Pargat Singh Powar defeating Shiromani Akali Dal's Sarabjit Singh Makkar by a huge margin of 29,124 votes.
92.1% of the total votes were casted to top three candidates. Indian National Congress's Pargat Singh Powar grabbed a total of 59,349 votes, while Shiromani Akali Dal's Sarabjit Singh Makkar got 30,225 votes. Aam Aadmi Party's candidate Harkrishan Singh Walia bagged 25,912 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties registered 47.3%, 24.1% and 20.7% respectively.
In Punjab Assembly election 2012, Shiromani Akali Dal's Pargat Singh beat Indian National Congress's Jagbir Singh Brar by 6,798 votes.