Constituency
16. Amritsar West
Community mirrorPunjab · Punjab Assembly Election, 2012
PB-AMRITSAR-WEST
INC 48.0%won by 12.1%BJP 35.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.3% to 12.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,66,210
Turnout
57.4%
Valid votes
95,434
Margin
11,591
12.15%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1RAJ KUMAR (E)Indian National Congress · INC45,76248.0%
- 2RAKESH GILLBharatiya Janata Party · BJP34,17135.8%
- 3AMARJIT SINGH ASALCommunist Party of India · CPI11,68212.2%
- 4ROHIT KHOKHARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,2981.4%
- 5SURINDER KUMAR KHOSLANationalist Congress Party · NCP8770.9%
- 6MANJIT SINGHIndependent · IND7410.8%
- 7SHAM LAL (GANDHIWADI)BCP · BCP5510.6%
- 8JASPAL SINGHIndependent · IND3520.4%
Since 2007
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +2.8%
- INC share
- 47.1% → 48.0%
- BJP share
- 37.7% → 35.8%
- Turnout
- — → 57.4%