Constituency
18. Amritsar East
Community mirrorPunjab · Punjab Assembly Election, 2017
PB-AMRITSAR-EAST
INC 60.7%won by 43.0%BJP 17.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 43.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.2% to 60.7% of the vote here (+32.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.4% of the vote between them, up from 64.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,53,629
Turnout
64.9%
Valid votes
99,664
Margin
42,809
42.95%
Candidates
16 contested · winner INC- 1NAVJOT SINGH SIDHUIndian National Congress · INC60,47760.7%
- 2RAJESH KUMAR HONEYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,66817.7%
- 3SARABJOT SINGH DHANJALAam Aadmi Party · AAP14,71514.8%
- 4MANDEEP SINGH MANNAIndependent · IND1,8631.9%
- 5BALDEV SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI1,5861.6%
- 6TARSEM SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,2371.2%
- 7None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA5370.5%
- 8SUKHWINDER SINGHIndependent · IND3110.3%
- 9NARINDER SINGHAPPA · APPA2880.3%
- 10SANDEEP SINGHRPIA · RPIA1650.2%
- 11AMITADPIN · DPIN1500.2%
- 12GURJIT KAURIndependent · IND1450.1%
- 13PARMINDER KAURIndependent · IND1410.1%
- 14SANT BALDEV SINGH RATHORABSD · ABSD1380.1%
- 15TARSEM LALBMUP · BMUP1300.1%
- 16AMARJIT SINGHIndependent · IND1130.1%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +51.0%
- INC share
- 28.2% → 60.7%
- BJP share
- 36.3% → 17.7%
- Turnout
- 66.2% → 64.9%