MLA of Amritsar East 2022


Amritsar East constituency is one of the 117 seats of Punjab Vidhan Sabha and its constituency number is 18. During the recently held assembly elections in Punjab, the voting for the election of MLA of Amritsar East was held on 20th February 2022. As per the latest updates available, JEEVAN JYOT KAUR of AAP has won from this seat with a margin of 6750 votes and is elected as the new MLA of Amritsar East in 2022. Navjot Singh Sidhu of Congress has lost the elections and secured the second place.

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Punjab MLA List 2022 For a list of all the MLAs from Amritsar district, check the following page:
Amritsar MLA List
This constituency is located in Amritsar district of Punjab and comes under the Amritsar 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, Navjot Singh Sidhu of Congress won from this Vidhan Sabha seat and elected as the new MLA of Amritsar East. She won the last assembly elections held in 2017 by defeating its nearest opponent Rajesh Honey of BJP with a margin of 42809 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 Amritsar East constituency

As per the voter list for 2017 assembly elections, the total number of voters in Amritsar East constituency is 153288. During these elctions, the election commission established 153 polling stations, situated at 68 different locations across this assembly segment. During the 2017 elections, the total number of votes cast in this constituency was 99306 and the voting percentage was recorded at 64.78%, which was less than the state average of 77.4%.

Amritsar East Candidates

The last assembly elections in Punjab were held in February 2017. On this page, we have given details of candidates from Amritsar East 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 Sarabjot Singh Dhanjal for the coming assembly elections. His age is 36 years and level of education is Graduation-Bachelor of Computer Application. The contact number of Sarabjot Singh Dhanjal is 9592400002. 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 Rajesh Honey as its MLA candidate from this constituency. He is 41 years old and his educational qualification is Bachelor of Law. If you want to contact him, you can call at 9872300272. 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 Navjot Singh Sidhu as its MLA candidate from this constituency. Some more details about Navjot Singh Sidhu are as follows: Age - 53 years, Education - BA/LLB. For a phone call, his contact number is 9478466666. You would also like our page containing Congress candidates list 2017 Punjab.

Amritsar East MLA 2012

In 2012 elections, Shrimati Navjot Kaur Sidhu became MLA from Amritsar East and She is associated with BJP. She was elected as MLA from this vidhan sabha seat in the previous assembly elections by winning with a margin of 7101 votes. Simarpreet Kaur Bhatia of Independent was the trailing candidate.
She was born on 15-06-1963 at Ludhiana, District Ludhiana. Name of her father is Shamsher Singh Grewal . The following table shows some more information about her:

Shrimati Navjot Kaur Sidhu
Father's NameShamsher Singh Grewal
Date of Birth15-06-1963
Place of BirthLudhiana, District Ludhiana
Name of husband
Address5, Mall Road, Amritsar
Educational Qualification
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