Malout Assembly constituency

Malout
Constituency No. 85 for the Punjab Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Punjab
District	Sri Muktsar Sahib
Lok Sabha constituency	Firozpur
Total electors	176,573 [1]
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Punjab Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Baljit Kaur
Party	Aam Aadmi Party
Elected year	2022

Malout is one of the 117 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Punjab state in India. ^{[2] [3]} It is part of Sri Muktsar Sahib district and is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes since 1977. There have been calls from some local leaders and residents to review the reservation status, citing that it has remained reserved for a considerably very long period.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Picture	Party
1957	Teja Singh			Indian National Congress
1957	Parkash Singh
1962	Gurmit Singh
1967
1969
1972	Gurbinder Kaur
1977	Daua Ram			Communist Party of India
1980	Matu Ram			Indian National Congress
1985	Shiv Chand			Indian National Congress
1992	Baldev Singh			United Communist Party of India
1997	Sujan Singh			Shiromani Akali Dal
2002	Nathu Ram			Communist Party of India
2007	Harpreet Singh			Shiromani Akali Dal
2012
2017	Ajaib Singh Bhatti [4]			Indian National Congress
2022	Baljit Kaur			Aam Aadmi Party

Election results

2022

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Punjab Assembly election, 2022: Malout ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Baljit Kaur	77,370	55.6
	SAD	Harpreet Singh	37109	26.67
	INC	Rupinder Ruby	17652	12.68
	NOTA	None of the above	897	0.5
Majority			40,261	28.93
Turnout			139167
Registered electors			176,919	[6]
	AAP gain from INC		Swing

2017

Punjab Assembly election, 2017: Malout ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ajaib Singh Bhatti	49,098	36.1
	SAD	Darshan Singh	44,109	32.4
	AAP	Principal Baldev Singh	38,663	28.4
	NOTA	None of the above	899	0.5
Majority			4,989	3.7
Turnout			135,295	82.6
Registered electors			164,832	[7]
	INC gain from SAD

1957

Punjab Assembly election, 1957

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Parkash Singh	39,255
	Independent	Ujjagar Singh	13,571
Majority
	INC gain from

See also

• List of constituencies of the Punjab Legislative Assembly
• Sri Muktsar Sahib district

References

1. "Voter Turnout Report - General Elections to Punjab Vidhan Sabha, 2022". Chief Election Officer, Punjab. Retrieved 13 March 2022.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
2. Chief Electoral Officer – Punjab (19 June 2006). "List of Parliamentary Constituencies and Assembly Constituencies in the State of Punjab as determined by the delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituency notification dated 19th June, 2006" . Retrieved 24 June 2021.
3. "List of Punjab Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
4. Election Commission of India. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2017" . Retrieved 26 June 2021.
5. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. 10 May 2022. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
6. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
7. Chief Electoral Officer - Punjab. "Electors and Polling Stations - VS 2017" (PDF). Retrieved 24 June 2021.

External links

• "Record of all Punjab Assembly Election results". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 14 March 2022.

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