Punjab Election 2022: Rupnagar Assembly Seat
]Punjab Election: Rupnagar Assembly Constituency 2022
Rupnagar is the assembly constituency which comes under the Rupnagar district. It is one of the 117 Punjab Legislative Assembly Constituencies . Punjab Assembly Election 2022 for Rupnagar was held on February 20 and the result was declared on March 10.
In 2017, the Rupnagar assembly seat had 1,69,605 registered voters. Of the, 89,580 were male and 80,025 were female voters. 0.5% of votes were casted for NOTA.
In the 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly Election, there were 7 candidates in the fray from Rupnagar constituency. Rupnagar was one of 20 seats won by the Aam Aadmi Party. Aam Aadmi Party's Amarjit Singh Sandoa won the election upstaging Indian National Congress's Brinder Singh Dhillon by a margin of 23,707 votes.
97.7% of the total votes were casted to top three candidates. Aam Aadmi Party's Amarjit Singh Sandoa grabbed a total of 58,994 votes, while Indian National Congress's Brinder Singh Dhillon got 35,287 votes. Shiromani Akali Dal's candidate Dr. Daljit Singh Cheema bagged 31,903 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties registered 45.7%, 27.3% and 24.7% respectively.
In Punjab Assembly election 2012, Shiromani Akali Dal's Dr. Daljit Singh Cheema defeated Indian National Congress's Romesh Dutt Sharma by 8,882 votes.