Amritsar West Assembly constituency

Amritsar West is a Punjab Legislative Assembly constituency in Amritsar district, Punjab state, India.^[1]

Amritsar West
Constituency No. 16 for the Punjab Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Punjab
District	Amritsar
Lok Sabha constituency	Amritsar
Total electors	214,073 (in 2022)
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Punjab Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Jasbir Singh Sandhu
Party	Aam Aadmi Party
Elected year	2022

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
1952	Shanoo Devi		Indian National Congress
1957	Balram Das Tandon		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1962
1967	Satyapal Dang		Communist Party of India
1969
1972
1977
1980	Sewa Ram		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1992	Vimla Dang		Communist Party of India
1997	Om Parkash Soni		Independent
2002
2007			Indian National Congress
2012	Raj Kumar Verka
2017
2022	Jasbir Singh Sandhu		Aam Aadmi Party

Election results

2022

Assembly Election, 2022: Amritsar West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Jasbir Singh Sandhu[3]	69,251	58.39
	INC	Raj Kumar Verka[4]	25,338	21.36
	SAD	Dalbir Singh Verka	10,370	8.74
	BJP	Amit Kumar	8,999	7.59
	CPI	Amarjit Singh Asal	1,368	1.15
	NOTA	None of the above	987	0.83
Majority			43,913	37.03
Turnout			1,18,606	55.28
Registered electors			214,073	[5]
	AAP gain from INC		Swing

2017

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Raj Kumar Verka	52,271	50.84
	BJP	Rakesh Gill	24,424	23.82
	AAP	Balwinder Singh Sahota	24,731	23.17
	CPI	Gurnam Kaur	1,725	1.62
	BSP	Jaswant Singh	847	0.79
	APP	Satnam Singh	409	0.38
	BSP (A)	Balwinder Singh	407	0.38
Registered electors			179,766	[8]