Constituency
17. Amritsar Central
Community mirrorPunjab · Punjab Assembly Election, 2017
PB-AMRITSAR-CENTRAL
INC 56.5%won by 23.3%BJP 33.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.9% to 23.3%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.7% between them, down from 95.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.3% to 66.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,35,954
Turnout
66.7%
Valid votes
90,708
Margin
21,116
23.28%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1OM PARKASH SONIIndian National Congress · INC51,24256.5%
- 2TARUN CHUGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP30,12633.2%
- 3AJAY GUPTAAam Aadmi Party · AAP7,1717.9%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA9191.0%
- 5RAJESH KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5000.6%
- 6AVTAR SINGHIndependent · IND1820.2%
- 7SIKANDERIndependent · IND1640.2%
- 8ASHOK KUMARDEMSWP · DEMSWP1620.2%
- 9KESHAV KOHLIAPPA · APPA1340.1%
- 10OM PARKASHIndependent · IND1080.1%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +8.3%
- INC share
- 55.3% → 56.5%
- BJP share
- 40.4% → 33.2%
- Turnout
- 64.4% → 66.7%