Constituency
17. Amritsar Central
Community mirrorPunjab · Punjab Assembly Election, 2012
PB-AMRITSAR-CENTRAL
INC 55.3%won by 14.9%BJP 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 33.1% to 55.3% of the vote here (+22.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.7% of the vote between them, up from 74.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,32,861
Turnout
64.4%
Valid votes
85,602
Margin
12,797
14.95%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1OM PARKASH SONI (E)Indian National Congress · INC47,35755.3%
- 2TARUN CHUGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP34,56040.4%
- 3VIJAY KUMAR MISRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,2121.4%
- 4JAGDISH RAJBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8080.9%
- 5RAKESH KUMARIndependent · IND7370.9%
- 6BALDEV BHARDWAJIndependent · IND3040.4%
- 7VIJAY THAKURBCP · BCP2780.3%
- 8NARINDER SHEKHAR LUTHRAIndependent · IND1800.2%
- 9OM PARKASHIndependent · IND1660.2%
Since 2007
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +23.0%
- INC share
- 33.1% → 55.3%
- BJP share
- 41.2% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- — → 64.4%