Jalandhar Result Updates: Aam Aadmi Party enters Jalandhar politics, Pargat Singh saves his seat, AAP surprises everyone by defeating the veteran politicians
The results from Punjab’sJalandhar constituency have been declared for the 9 assembly seats. Aam Aadmi Party emerges as the single largest party inPunjab by winning 94 seats out of 117 seats. This is the first time in Punjab’shistory that a party won single-handedly after 25 years. The Aam AadmiParty’s (AAP’s) chief ministerial candidate has created a buzz in the statewith the slogan ‘Ik mauka Bhagwant Mann te Kejriwal nu’.
In the Jalandharconstituency, there are 9 seats. These seats are Phillaur, Nakodar, Shahkot,Kartarpur, Jalandhar West, Jalandhar Central, Jalandhar North, Jalandhar Cantt.and Adampur. There is tough competition in the Jalandhar constituency and havea neck-to-neck competition. The parties defeated their competitors with a verysmall margin.
The winnersin the Jalandhar constituency are as:
There were8 candidates contesting from the Jalandhar Central seat. Raman Arora of AamAadmi Party defeated Rajinder Beri of Congress by 163 votes.
10Candidates were contesting from the Jalandhar Cantt seat where Pargat Singh ofCongress has won the seat by giving a tough competition to Surinder Singh Sodhiof the Aam Aadmi Party.
Contestingwith 11 candidates Sheetal Angural of the Aam Aadmi Party has won the seat. Shedefeated Sushil Rinku of INC by 1210 votes.
10candidates were contesting from the Jalandhar North seat. Avtar Singh Junioralso known as Baba Henry from Congress Party has won the seat.
A total of 11 were contesting from the Shahkot seat.Hardev Singh Laddi of Congress won the seat of Shahkot. He defeated Bachitar Singh Kohar with a hugemargin.
A total of 11 candidates contested from the Nakodar seat.In the race, Inderjeet Kaur Mann won the seat. She defeated Gurpartap SinghWadala by a very close difference.
Total of 14 candidates contested from the Phillaur seat.Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary of Congress Party has won the Phillaur seat.
Total of 8 candidates contested from Kartarpur. BalkarSingh of the Aam Aadmi Party has won the seat by giving a tough competition toChaudhary Surinder Singh of Congress Party.
A total of 10 candidates contested from Adampur seat.Sukhwinder Singh Kotli of Congress Party has won the Adampur seat by defeatingPawan Kumar Tinu of Shiromani Akali Dal.