Dakha Assembly constituency

Dakha Assembly constituency (Sl. No.: 68) is a Punjab Legislative Assembly constituency in Ludhiana district, Punjab state, India.^[1] Until 2008, Dakha constituency was reserved for SC candidates. Since 2012 election it was opened to all candidates. Manpreet Singh Ayali is the MLA from Dakha since 2019.

Dakha
Constituency No. 68 for the Punjab Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Punjab
District	Ludhiana
Lok Sabha constituency	Ludhiana
Total electors	187,760 (in 2022)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Punjab Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Manpreet Singh Ayali
Party	Shiromani Akali Dal
Elected year	2019

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Picture	Party
1967	Jagir Singh			Indian National Congress
1969	Basant Singh			Shiromani Akali Dal
1972
1977	Charanjit Singh
1980	Basant Singh
1985
1992	Malkiat Singh Dakha			Indian National Congress
1997	Bikramjit Singh			Shiromani Akali Dal
2002	Malkiat Singh Dakha			Indian National Congress
2007	Darshan Singh Shivalik			Shiromani Akali Dal
2012	Manpreet Singh Ayali
2017	Harvinder Singh Phoolka[2]			Aam Aadmi Party
2019 ByPoll	Manpreet Singh Ayali			Shiromani Akali Dal
2022

Election results

2022

Punjab Assembly election, 2022: 68. Dakha^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SAD	Manpreet Singh Ayali	49,909	34.97
	INC	Captain Sandeep Singh Sandhu[4]	44102	30.9
	AAP	Dr KNS Kang	42994	30.12
	NOTA	None of the above	1171	0.82
Majority			5807	4.07
Turnout			142739	75.73
Registered electors			187,760	[5]
	SAD hold

By election 2019

By-election, 2019: 68. Dakha^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SAD	Manpreet Singh Ayali	66,297
	INC	Sandeep Singh Sandhu	51,625
	LIP	Sukhdev Singh Chak	8,441
	AAP	Amandeep Singh Mohie	2,804
	NOTA	None of the above	642
Majority
Turnout			1,31,798	71.35
	SAD gain from AAP		Swing

2017

Punjab Assembly election, 2017: 68. Dakha^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Harvinder Singh Phoolka	58,923
	SAD	Manpreet Singh Ayali	54754
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors			179,549	[7]
	AAP gain from SAD		Swing

2012

Punjab Assembly election, 2012: 68. Dakha

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SAD	Manpreet Singh Ayali	72,208
	INC	Jasbir Singh Khangura	55820
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors
	SAD hold		Swing

Past elections

Year	A C No.	Category	Name	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Party	Votes
2007	54	Dakha (SC)	Darshan Singh Shivalik	SAD	94807	Malkiat Singh Dakha	INC	79006
2002	55	Dakha (SC)	Malkiat Singh Dakha	INC	51570	Darshan Singh Shivalik	SAD	42844
1997	55	Dakha (SC)	Bikramjit Singh	SAD	64605	Malkit Singh Dakha	INC	49495
1992	55	Dakha (SC)	Malkiat Singh	INC	4404	Ghanaya Lal	BJP	1225
1985	55	Dakha (SC)	Basant Singh	SAD	39511	Mohinder Singh	INC	23529
1980	55	Dakha (SC)	Basant Singh	SAD	31560	Jagjit Singh	INC (I)	27113
1977	55	Dakha (SC)	Charanjit Singh	SAD	31908	Gurcharan Singh	INC	20178
1972	65	Dakha (SC)	Basant Singh	SAD	25565	Harbans Singh Sayan	INC	23372
1969	65	Dakha (SC)	Basant Singh	SAD	22641	Jagir Singh	INC	11476
1967	65	Dakha (SC)	Jagir Singh	INC	18060	Basant Singh	ADS	16903

See also

• List of constituencies of the Punjab Legislative Assembly
• Ludhiana district