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On 16 October 2023, election commission announced schedule for electoral rolls, with final publication for rolls scheduled for 10 November 2023. [ 7 ] Elections will be held for the five municipal corporations--Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Phagwara and Patiala--besides the 44 municipal councils and by-polls to some urban local bodies.
Punjab State Election Commission is an autonomous and statutory body constituted in Indian state of Punjab for ensuring that elections are conducted in free, fair and unbiased way. Constitution of India with provisions as per Article 243K and 243 ZA and Article 324 ensures creation and safeguarding of the powers of State Election Commissions .
In the election, the party formed a coalition with the Lok Insaaf Party and gave it five seats. [24] No CM candidate was declared before the elections. [25] According to AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal, the CM candidate would be selected from Punjab. [26] AAP won 20 seats in the Punjab Assembly in its debut in the 2017 Punjab elections.
Polling was done on 20 February 2022 to elect the 117 members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The counting of votes declaration of results was done on 10 March 2022. [2] [3] [4] The Fifteenth Punjab assembly was dissolved on 11 March 2022. The dissolution was necessitated after the results of the election was declared on 10 March. [5] [6]
The Next Punjab legislative assembly election is expected to be held in February 2027 to elect all 117 members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. [1] Bhagwant Mann is the incumbent Chief Minister of Punjab .
Elections in Punjab, a state in India are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India. The Assembly of Punjab creates laws regarding the conduct of local body elections unilaterally while any changes by the state legislature to the conduct of state level elections need to be approved by the Parliament of India.
2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election NDA Seat Sharing. NDA contested the election without a Chief Ministerial face. [31] PLC was allotted 37 seats, but only contested in 34 seats after it could not find candidates to run in 3 seats. The three seats were returned to BJP. [32] 4 Candidates of PLC contested on BJP symbol. [33]
In 1947, Punjab Province was partitioned into West Punjab and East Punjab and the 79-member East Punjab Legislative Assembly was formed, the forerunner of the current assembly. After the independence of India, on 15 July 1948, eight princely states of East Punjab grouped together to form a single state, Patiala and East Punjab States Union.