Lehra | |
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Constituency No. 99 for the Punjab Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
State | Punjab |
District | Sangrur |
LS constituency | Sangrur |
Total electors | 173,020 [1] |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
16th Punjab Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | Aam Aadmi Party |
Elected year | 2022 |
Lehra Assembly constituency is a Punjab Legislative Assembly constituency in Sangrur district, Punjab state, India. [2]
Rajinder Kaur Bhattal (INC), who was the first and only female Chief minister of Punjab. She won five consecutive times from Lehra constituency from 1992. [3]
Members of Punjab Legislative Assembly Lehra. [4]
№ | Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party (Alliance) | ||
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1 | Pritam Singh | 1962 | 1967 | Indian National Congress | ||
2 | Brish Bhan | 1967 | 1969 | |||
3 | Harchand Singh | 1969 | 1970 | Shiromani Akali Dal | ||
4 | H. Singh | 1970 | 1972 | |||
5 | Harish Bhan | 1972 | 1977 | Indian National Congress | ||
6 | Chitwant Singh | 1977 | 1980 | Independent politician | ||
7 | Amar Singh | 1980 | 1985 | Communist Party of India | ||
8 | Inderjit Singh | 1985 | 1987 | Shiromani Akali Dal | ||
President's Rule | 1987 | 1992 | Governor of Punjab | |||
9 | Rajinder Kaur Bhattal | 1992 | 1997 | Indian National Congress | ||
10 | 1997 | 2002 | ||||
11 | 2002 | 2007 | ||||
12 | 2007 | 2012 | ||||
13 | 2012 | 2017 | ||||
14 | Parminder Singh Dhindsa [5] | 2017 | 2022 | Shiromani Akali Dal | ||
15 | Barinder Kumar Goyal [1] | 2022 | Incumbent | Aam Aadmi Party | ||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AAP | Barinder Kumar Goyal [6] | 60,058 | 43.59 | ||
SAD(S) | Parminder Singh Dhindsa | 33540 | 24.34 | ||
INC | Rajinder Kaur Bhattal | 20450 | 14.84 | ||
SAD | Gobind Singh Longowal | 12038 | 8.74 | ||
SAD(M) | Sher Singh | 4991 | 3.62 | ||
Independent | Satwant Singh | 1546 | 1.12 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 1071 | 0.78 | ||
Majority | 26518 | 19.25 | |||
Turnout | 137776 | 79.63 | |||
Registered electors | 173,020 | [7] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SAD | Parminder Singh Dhindsa | 65,550 | |||
INC | Rajinder Kaur Bhattal | 38735 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Registered electors | [8] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Rajinder Kaur Bhattal | 44,706 | 37.27 | ||
SAD | Sukhwant Singh | 41351 | 34.48 | ||
PPoP | Bhagwant Mann | 26136 | 21.79 | ||
BSP | Jagjit Singh | 3232 | 2.69 | ||
Independent | Rajvir Singh | 1725 | 1.44 | ||
Majority | 3355 | ||||
Turnout | 119944 | 85.52 | |||
Registered electors | [8] |
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