Punjab Assembly Elections 2022: Amritsar East is located in the Amritsar district of Punjab. It is one of the 117 seats of Punjab Vidhan Sabha. Congress' Navjot Singh Sidhu won the last assembly elections and is the current MLA of Amritsar East. He won the 2017 elections by defeating Rajesh Kumar Honey of the Bharatiya Janata Party with a margin of 42,809 votes. Voters According to the voter list for the 2017 assembly elections, the total number of voters in the constituency is 1,53,288. 153 polling stations were established by the election commission during these elections. A total of 99,306 votes were cast in the Amritsar East constituency and the percentage was 64.78%, which was recorded lower than the state average. Candidates Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Sarabjot Singh Dhanjal, Bharatiya Janata Party's Rajesh Honey and Congress' Navjot Sidhu were MLA candidates for Amritsar East constituency in the 2017 Punjab assembly elections. BJP at that time had an alliance with Shiromani Akali Dal and announced Rajesh Honey as its MLA candidate from the Amritsar East constituency. Navjot Singh Sidhu (Congress) grabbed 60,477 votes. While Rajesh Honey (BJP) received 17,668 and Sarabjot Singh Dhanjal (AAP) got just 14,715. For the latest updates on Punjab Assembly elections 2022, click here.
