Amritsar Central Assembly constituency

Amritsar Central Assembly constituency (Sl. No.: 17) is a Punjab Legislative Assembly constituency in Amritsar district, Punjab state, India.^[1]

Amritsar Central
Constituency No. 17 for the Punjab Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Punjab
District	Amritsar
Lok Sabha constituency	Amritsar
Total electors	147,058 (in 2022)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Punjab Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ajay Gupta
Party	Aam Aadmi Party
Elected year	2022

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
1952	Amir Chand Gupta		Indian National Congress
1967	Balram Das Tandon		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969
1972	Partap Chand		Indian National Congress
1977	Balram Das Tandon		Janata Party
1980	Darbari Lal		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1992	Laxmi Kanta Chawla		Bharatiya Janata Party
1997
2002	Darbari Lal		Indian National Congress
2007	Laxmi Kanta Chawla		Bharatiya Janata Party
2012	Om Parkash Soni		Indian National Congress
2017
2022	Ajay Gupta		Aam Aadmi Party

Election results

2022

Punjab Assembly election, 2022: Amritsar Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Ajay Gupta[3]	40,837	46.83
	INC	Om Parkash Soni[4]	26,811	30.74
	BJP	Ram Chawla	13,551	15.54
	BSP	Dalvir Kaur	4,016	4.61
	NOTA	None of the above	697	0.76
Majority			14,026	16.09
Turnout			87,205
Registered electors			1,47,058	[5]
	AAP gain from INC		Swing

2017

Punjab Assembly election, 2017: Amritsar Central^[6][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Om Parkash Soni	51,242	53.86
	BJP	Tarun Chugh	34,560	36.32
	AAP	ajay gupta	7171	7.54
	BSP	rajesh kumar	500	0.53
	NOTA	None of the above	919	0.97
Registered electors			135,954	[8]

2012

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Punjab Assembly election, 2012: Amritsar Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Om Parkash Soni	47,357	55.32
	BJP	Tarun Chugh	30126	40.37
	CPI(M)	Vijay Kumar Misra	1212	1.42
	BSP	Jagdish Raj	808	0.94
	Independent	Rakesh Kumar	737	0.86
	Independent	Baldev Bhardwaj	304	0.36
	Independent	Narinder Shekhar Luthra	180	0.21
	Independent	Om Prakash	166	0.19