MLA of Abohar 2022


Abohar constituency is one of the 117 seats of Punjab Vidhan Sabha and its constituency number is 81. During the recently held assembly elections in Punjab, the voting for the election of MLA of Abohar was held on 20th February 2022. As per the latest updates available, SANDEEP JAKHAR of Congress has won from this seat with a margin of 5471 votes and is elected as the new MLA of Abohar in 2022. KULDEEP KUMAR of AAP has lost the elections and secured the second place.

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Fazilka MLA List
This constituency is located in Fazilka district of Punjab and comes under the Firozpur lok sabha seat. Here it may be noted that there are total thirteen lok sabha seats and twenty three districts in Punjab. In the previous assembly elections held in 2017, Arun Narang of BJP won from this Vidhan Sabha seat and elected as the new MLA of Abohar. He won the last assembly elections held in 2017 by defeating its nearest opponent Sunil Kumar Jakhar of Congress with a margin of 3279 votes.
For the last assembly elections, the voting was held on 4th Feb 2017 and the results were declared on 11 Mar 2017.

Voters in Abohar constituency

As per the voter list for 2017 assembly elections, the total number of voters in Abohar constituency is 159440. During these elctions, the election commission established 156 polling stations, situated at 76 different locations across this assembly segment. During the 2017 elections, the total number of votes cast in this constituency was 124447 and the voting percentage was recorded at 78.05%, which was higher than the state average of 77.4%.

Abohar Candidates

The last assembly elections in Punjab were held in February 2017. On this page, we have given details of candidates from Abohar belonging to all major political parties including Shiromani Akali Dal, AAP, BJP and Congress candidates. Some details about these candidates like age, education and contact number is also given here.
AAP Candidate : Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has announced its candidate from this seat and has given ticket to Atul Nagpal for the coming assembly elections. His age is 46 years and level of education is MATRIC. The contact number of Atul Nagpal is 9417033333. For a complete list of AAP candidates, check this page - AAP Candidate List 2017 Punjab
BJP Candidate : BJP is having an alliance with Akali Dal and has nominated Arun Narang as its MLA candidate from this constituency. He is 61 years old and his educational qualification is B.SC., L.L.B.. If you want to contact him, you can call at 9888914000. For the complete list of BJP candidates, check this page BJP Candidate List 2017 Punjab.
Congress Candidate : Congress party is contesting the elections under the leardership of Captain Amrinder Singh and has declared Sunil Kumar Jakhar as its MLA candidate from this constituency. Some more details about Sunil Kumar Jakhar are as follows: Age - 63 years, Education - M.B.A.. For a phone call, his contact number is 01634-220432. He is also a sitting MLA from this constituency. In previous assembly elections, he/she won from this seat by defeating nearest opponent Shiv Lal Dodha of Independent party. You would also like our page containing Congress candidates list 2017 Punjab.

Abohar MLA 2012

In 2012 elections, Shri Sunil Kumar Jakhar became MLA from Abohar and He is associated with INC. He was elected as MLA from this vidhan sabha seat in the previous assembly elections by winning with a margin of 9778 votes. Shiv Lal Dodha of Independent was the trailing candidate.
He was born on 09-02-1954 at Panj Kosi, District Firozpur. Name of his father is Chaudhri Balram Jakhar. The following table shows some more information about him:

Shri Sunil Kumar Jakhar
Father's NameChaudhri Balram Jakhar
Date of Birth09-02-1954
Place of BirthPanj Kosi, District Firozpur
Name of wife
AddressVill. Panjkosi, Teh. Abohar, Distt. Fazilka
Educational QualificationMBA
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