Punjab Vidhan Sabha

The Punjab Vidhan Sabha (Punjab Legislative Assembly, Punjab Assembly) consists of 117 members and these members are elected for five years. The legislative assembly meets at Vidhan Bhavan, Sector 1, Chandigarh. The current governor of Punjab is VP Singh Badnore, a BJP leader from Rajasthan, who took charge in August 2016.
Capt. Amarinder Singh is the current Chief Minister of Punjab. In the last assembly elections held in 2017, Congress party won 77 seats out of the total 117 seats of Punjab Vidhan Sabha and formed the govt under the leadership of Captain Amarinder Singh. He was the CM of Punjab from 2002 to 2007 also and it is his second term. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is the main opposition party in the state and H.S. Phoolka of APP (MLA from Dakha, Ludhiana) is the leader of opposition. For a list of newly elected MLAs, jump to the section: Punjab MLA List. Also check the list of cabinet ministers in Punjab.
The speaker of Punjab Vidhan Sabha is Rana Kanwar Pal Singh (Rana K.P. Singh), who belongs to ruling Congress party and is an MLA from Anandpur Sahib constituency. Ajaib Singh Bhatti, the MLA from Malout constituency, is the deputy speaker.


Voting Percentage in Punjab: According to latest information available through Election Commission, 1.54 crore voters out of total 1.99 crore voters of the state turned up to cast their vote. In terms of percentage, the final figure of voting percentage in Punjab is 77.4%. The highest poll percentage of 87.34% is recorded in Mansa district, followed by 85.25% in Muktsar district. The lowest turnout of voters was at Mohali district where only 71.97% people came to polling booths.

Punjab MLAs 2017 Highlights

Here are some highlights from the list of newly elections MLAs of Punjab:

• Captain Amrinder Singh has won the elections with the highest margin. He won the elections from Patiala urban and defeated his nearest opponent Dr. Balbir Singh of AAP with a margin of 52407 votes.
• Navjot Singh Sidhu, again from Congress party, is the MLA who won with second highest margin. He became MLA from Amritsar East by winning with a margin of 42809 votes and Rajesh Honey of BJP was the trailing candidate.
• Davinder Singh Ghubaya, the new MLA from Fazilka, won the elections with the lowest margin of 265 votes. He is also the youngest MLA in the current assembly.
• Some well known leaders of ruling Congress party who lost in these elections are - Sunil Jakhar (Abohar), Rajinder Kaur Bhattal (Lehra), Kewal Singh Dhillon (Barnala), Ashwani Sekhri (Batala).
• The bigwigs who have to bite the dust and even lost their security deposit are - Gen JJ Singh (SAD, Patiala), Himmat Singh Shergill (AAP, Majitha), Sucha Singh Chottepur (APP, Gurdaspur).

Punjab Vidhan Sabha Seats

There are total 117 Vidhan Sabha seats in Punjab. The voting for the 15th Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) elections in Punjab was held on 4th Feb 2017 and counting was done on March 11, 2017. In these elections, Congress party got a clear majority by winning 77 seats and now is set to form the government with Captain Amrinder Singh as the new Chief Minister of Punjab. The Shiromani Akali Dal won only 15 seats and its alliance partner BJP won only 3 seats. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which was considered a strong contender, could manage to win only 20 seats and its partner Lok Insaf Party (LIP) won from 2 seats. the current number of MLAs of each party is:

Party/MLA Count 2017

Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	Vote %age
Congress	117	77	38.5
SAD	94	15	25.2
BJP	23	3	5.4
SAD + BJP	117	18	30.6
AAP	112	20	23.7
LIP	5	2	1.2
AAP + LIP	117	22	24.9

Punjab MLA List

A list of newly elected MLAs of Punjab with constituency number, name of assembly constituency and district is presented here. This is the latest list according to the assembly elections held in Feb 2017. For the details about each constituency like new MLA, votes margin, trailing candidate, total votes and polling stations etc, click on the name of the constituency.

Some important questions:
Question - Who is the current speaker of Punjab Vidhan Sabha?
S. Charanjit Singh Atwal is the current speaker. He is MLA from Payal constituency of Ludhiana district.
Question - In the independent India, when was the first elections of Punjab Assembly held?
The first elections were held in 1952.
Question - Who was the first speaker?
Kapur Singh was the first speaker. He was the speaker from 1947 to 1951.
By Sukhminder Singh