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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]
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. The Punjab State Legislature was a bicameral house in April 1952, comprising the Vidhan Sabha (lower house) and Vidhan Parishad (upper house). In 1956 that state was largely merged ...
A by-election for the constituency was held in June 2022, where Simranjit Singh Mann defeated Gurmail Singh of the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party. [5] In January 2023, the Jalandhar constituency became vacant after the death of the incumbent MP, Santokh Singh Chaudhary of INC.
BSP is the fourth largest party in Punjab after improving its vote share in 2012 elections [29] started preparations for 2017 early by launching Punjab Bachao Abhiyaan from 1 November 2014. [30] In 2012, the BSP came second from Balachaur Vidhan Sabha seat with 21,943 votes. [31]
On 1 April, the assembly unanimously passed a resolution to immediately transfer union territory of Chandigarh — the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, to Punjab. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] On 30 June, the assembly passed a resolution recommending the state government that it urges the Government of India to immediately rollback the Agnipath scheme .
Punjab Assembly election, 2022: Nawanshahr [5] Party Candidate Votes % ±% BSP: Nachhatar Pal: 37,031 : 29.9 : AAP: Lalit Mohan Pathak [6] 31655 25.55 Independent: Angad Singh 31516 25.44 INC: Satvir Singh Palli Jhikki [7] 6998 5.65 SAD(A) Davinder Singh 5037 4.07 NOTA: None of the above: 643 0.52 Majority 5376 4.34 Turnout: Registered electors [8]
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.
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 .