Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu lost from Amritsar East by a margin of 6,750 votes. AAP candidate Jeevan Jyot Kaur won the seat with 39,520 votes while Sidhu garnered 32,807 votes. SAD candidate Bikram Majithia came in third with 25,112 votes.

Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal thanked the people for 'inqilaab' in the state. The AAP has slew the giants of Punjab politics from Captain Amarinder Singh to Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and is set for a landslide victory in the agrarian state.

AAP's Bhagwant Mann, who won from Dhuri seat will take oath as the CM in Bhagat Singh's village Khatkarkalan, not at the Raj Bhawan.

Amritsar East is an assembly constituency in the Amritsar district, in the Majha region of the state of Punjab.

The Amritsar East legislative assembly constituency went to polls on February 20, 2022.

The assembly seat is reserved for the General category and it falls in the Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency.

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In the 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly elections, Amritsar East was won by Navjot Singh Sidhu of the INC. He defeated BJP's Rajesh Kumar Honey.

Before that, in the 2012 Punjab vidhan sabha elections, the seat was held by BJP's Navjot Sidhu (E/W).

In the 2017 assembly polls, Navjot Singh Sidhu garnered 60,477 votes, securing 60.68 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 42,809 votes.

In percentage terms, the victory margin was 42.95 percent.

The total number of voters in the Amritsar East constituency stands at 1,68,013 with 78,961 male voters and 89,051 female voters.

Amritsar city has a literacy level of 84.19 percent.

First Published:Mar 10, 2022 12:17 AM IST