Abohar Assembly constituency

Abohar Assembly constituency (Sl. No.: 81) is a Punjab Legislative Assembly constituency in Fazilka district, Punjab state, India.^[1] Abohar assembly constituency is one of the 117 seats of Punjab Vidhan Sabha. This constituency is located in Fazilka district of Punjab and comes under the Firozpur (Lok Sabha constituency) seat. 28% Hindu Jat, 10% Jatt Sikh, 25% Dalit, 14% Bagri Kumhar, 10% Kamboj and 13% others lived there in this constituency.

Abohar
Constituency No. 81 for the Punjab Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Punjab
District	Fazilka
Lok Sabha constituency	Firozpur
Total electors	178,416 (in 2022)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Punjab Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sandeep Jakhar
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2022

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election	Name[2]	Party
1952	Chandi Ram		Indian National Congress
1957	Sahi Ram		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1962	Chandi Ram		Indian National Congress
1967	Satya Dev		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969
1972	Balram Jakhar		Indian National Congress
1977
1980	Sajjan Kumar		Indian National Congress
1985	Arjan Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
1992	Sajjan Kumar		Indian National Congress
1997	Ram Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2002	Sunil Jakhar		Indian National Congress
2007
2012
2017	Arun Narang		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Sandeep Jakhar		Indian National Congress

Election results

2022

Punjab Assembly election, 2022: Abohar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sandeep Jakhar	49,924	37.51
	AAP	Deep Kamboj	44,453	33.40
	BJP	Arun Narang	21,534	16.18
	SAD	Dr. Mahinder Kumar Rinwa	14,345	10.78
	NOTA	None of the above	726	0.55
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors			178,739	[3]
	INC gain from BJP		Swing	INC

2017

Punjab Assembly election, 2017: Abohar^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Arun Narang	55,091	44.0
	INC	Sunil Jakhar	51,812	41.4
	AAP	Atul Nagpal	13,888	11.1
	NOTA	None of the above	1,212	0.8
Majority			3,279	2.6
Turnout			123,917	78.4
Registered electors			159,660