Punjab Election 2022: Sham Chaurasi Assembly Seat
]Punjab Election: Sham Chaurasi Assembly Constituency 2022
Sham Chaurasi is the assembly constituency which comes under the Hoshiarpur district. It is one of the 117 Punjab Legislative Assembly Constituencies . Punjab Assembly Election 2022 for Sham Chaurasi was held on February 20 and the result was declared on March 10.
In 2017, the Sham Chaurasi assembly seat had 1,66,750 registered voters. Of the, 86,501 were male and 80,249 were female voters. 0.5% of votes were casted for NOTA.
In the Punjab Legislative Assembly Election 2017, Sham Chaurasi constituency had 6 candidates for assembly seat contention. Sham Chaurasi was one of 77 seats won by the Indian National Congress. It was a close contest with Indian National Congress's Pawan Kumar Adia winning the election upstaging Aam Aadmi Party's Dr. Ravjot Singh by a margin of just 3,815 votes.
92.8% of the total votes were casted to top three candidates. Indian National Congress's Pawan Kumar Adia grabbed a total of 46,612 votes, while Aam Aadmi Party's Dr. Ravjot Singh got 42,797 votes. Shiromani Akali Dal's candidate Mohinder Kaur Josh bagged 24,671 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties registered 37.9%, 34.8% and 20.1% respectively.
In Punjab Assembly election 2012, Shiromani Akali Dal's Mohinder Kaur Josh beat Indian National Congress's Chaudhary Ram Lubhaya by 5,306 votes.