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Elections in Punjab may refer to:
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The Punjab Legislative Assembly or the Punjab Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the state of Punjab in northern India. At present, it consists of 117 members, directly elected from 117 single-seat constituencies. The tenure of the Legislative Assembly is five years unless dissolved sooner. The current Speaker of the Assembly is Rana KP Singh. The meeting place of the Legislative Assembly since 6 March 1961 is the Vidhan Bhavan in Chandigarh. The current ruling party is the Indian National Congress with 2/3rd Majority.
Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif is a Pakistani politician who is the current Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Pakistan, in office since 20 August 2018. He has been a member of the National Assembly since 13 August 2018 and is the current President of the Pakistan Muslim League-N. He has recently served his third term as the Chief Minister of Punjab from June 2013 to May 2018.
Avinash Rai Khanna is a Vice Chairman, Indian Red Cross Society and Vice President of Bhartiya Janta Party. He is also a BJP In-charge of Jammu & Kashmir & Rajasthan. Earlier, he served as member of Rajya Sabha and was also a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Hoshiarpur constituency of Punjab. He was elected as an MLA from Garshankar in 2002. In 2003, he was also elected as a State President B.J.P Punjab. After that he was elected Member of Parliament from Hoshiarpur Constituency in 2004. Under his leadership, first time in Punjab B.J.P. got 19 seats out of 23 in Assembly elections in 2007 and played a major role in formation of Akali government in Punjab. During his five-year tenure as an M.P., he has asked 270 questions and participated in 116 debates.
Constituency PP-241 (Bahawalnagar-V) is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab.
Chuhdary Kashif Mehmood is current MPA elected in July 2018 election.
PP-24 (Jhelum-I) is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab.
PP-20 (Chakwal-I) is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab.
PP-148 (Lahore-XII) is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab.
PP-4 (Attock-IV) is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab.
PP-129 (Jhang-VIII) is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab.
PP-157 (Lahore-XXI) is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab.
PP-118 is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab.
PP-67 (Faisalabad-XVII) is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab.
Constituency PP-1 (Attock-I) is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab as per Final Delimitation 2018 MAPS.
Parkash Singh Badal is an Indian politician who was Chief Minister of Punjab state from 1970 to 1971, from 1977 to 1980, from 1997 to 2002, and from 2007 to 2017. He is also the patron of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), a Sikh-centered regional political party. He was the president of the party from 1995 to 2008, when he was replaced by his son Sukhbir Singh Badal. As the patron of SAD he exercises a strong influence on the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee. The Government of India awarded him the second-highest civilian award, Padma Vibhushan, in 2015.
Sukhbir Singh Badal is an Indian politician and President of Shiromani Akali Dal, a Sikh political party. He was the Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab from 2009 to 2017. He is the son of Parkash Singh Badal, who served several times as Punjab Chief Minister.
A Legislative Assembly election was held in the Indian state of Punjab on 4 February 2017 to elect the 117 members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The counting of votes was done on 11 March 2017. The ruling pre-election coalition was the alliance comprising the political parties Shiromani Akali Dal and Bharatiya Janata Party and led by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. The voter turnout for the Punjab Assembly election was 76.83%. The Indian National Congress led by former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh defeated the ruling alliance and the newcomer Aam Aadmi Party.
PP-48 (Narowal-III) is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab.
PP-47 (Narowal-II) is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab.