Mukerian Assembly constituency

Mukerian
Constituency No. 39 for the Punjab Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Punjab
District	Mukerian
Lok Sabha constituency	Hoshiarpur
Established	1951
Total electors	202,924 [1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Punjab Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Jangi Lal Mahajan
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2022

Mukerian Assembly constituency (Sl. No.: 39) is a Punjab Legislative Assembly constituency in Mukerian district, Punjab state, India. ^[2] Illegal mining, drugs and 3 farm laws were the major issues in the constituency in 2022 elections. ^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1992	Dr.Kewal Krishan		Indian National Congress
1997	Arunesh Kumar		Bharatiya Janta Party
2002	Dr.Kewal Krishan		Indian National Congress
2007	Arunesh Kumar		Bharatiya Janta Party
2012	Rajnish Kumar Babbi		Indian National Congress
2017
2019 [a]	Indu Bala
2022	Jangi Lal Mahajan		Bharatiya Janata Party

1. bypoll due to the death of Rajnish Kumar Babbi

Election results

2022

Punjab Assembly election, 2022: Mukerian

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jangi Lal Mahajan	41,044	28.64
	AAP	Prof. Gurdhian Singh Multani	38,353	26.76
	INC	Indu Bala	28,989	20.23
	SAD	Sarbjot Singh	28,984	20.23
	NOTA	None of the above	851	0.4
Majority			2,691	1.88
Turnout			143,300	68.9
Registered electors			208,063	[4]

2019 bypoll

A by-poll was needed due to the death of sitting MLA Rajnish Kumar Babbi. ^[5]

2019 by-poll: Mukerian ^{[6] [7]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Indu Bala	53,910
	BJP	Jangi Lal Mahajan	50,470
	AAP	GS Multani	8,261
	SAD(A)	Gurvatan Singh Multani	1,286
	Hindustan Shakti Sena	Arjun	558
	Independent	Amandeep Ghotra	268
	NOTA	None of the above	879
Majority			3,440
Turnout
Registered electors

2017

Punjab Assembly election, 2017: Mukerian ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Rajnish Kumar Babbi	56,787	41.80
	BJP	Arunesh Kumar	33,661	24.80
	Independent	Jangi Lal Mahajan	20,542	15.1
	AAP	Sulakhan Singh	17,005	12.5
	NOTA	None of the above	1,018	0.5
Majority			23,126	17.1
Turnout			134,883	70.7
Registered electors			192,217	[9]

See also

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

References

1. "Voter Turnout Report - General Elections to Punjab Vidhan Sabha, 2022". Chief Election Officer, Punjab. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
2. "List of Punjab Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
3. "Illegal mining, drugs major issues". Tribuneindia News Service. Archived from the original on 10 February 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
4. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 3 March 2024. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
5. "Chandigarh: Congress MLA Rajnish Kumar Babbi passes away". Times of India. PTI. 27 August 2019. Archived from the original on 29 December 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
6. Sanjeev Bakshi (25 October 2019). "Indu Bala wins Mukerian seat with slender margin". The Tribune. Archived from the original on 29 December 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
7. Zee News (25 October 2019). "By-election results 2019: List of winners in 51 Assembly and Satara, Samastipur". Archived from the original on 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
8. Election Commission of India. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2017". Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
9. Chief Electoral Officer - Punjab. "Electors and Polling Stations - VS 2017" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 January 2020. 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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