Punjab Election 2022: Zira Assembly Seat
]Punjab Election: Zira Assembly Constituency 2022
Zira is the assembly constituency which comes under the Firozpur district. It is one of the 117 Punjab Legislative Assembly Constituencies . Punjab Assembly Election 2022 for Zira was held on February 20 and the result was declared on March 10.
In 2017, the Zira assembly seat had 1,77,912 registered voters. Of the, 94,456 were male and 83,456 were female voters. 0.3% of votes were casted for NOTA.
In the 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly Election, there were 12 candidates in the fray from Zira constituency. Zira was one of 77 seats won by the Indian National Congress. Indian National Congress's Kulbir Singh won the election upstaging Shiromani Akali Dal's Hari Singh Zira by a margin of 23,534 votes.
98.3% of the total votes were casted to top three candidates. Indian National Congress's Kulbir Singh grabbed a total of 70,362 votes, while Shiromani Akali Dal's Hari Singh Zira got 46,828 votes. Aam Aadmi Party's candidate Gurpreet Singh bagged 30,947 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties registered 46.7%, 31.1% and 20.5% respectively.
In Punjab Assembly election 2012, Shiromani Akali Dal's Hari Singh defeated Indian National Congress's Naresh Kumar by 11,967 votes.