Bholath is an assembly constituency in the Kapurthala district, in the Doaba region of the state of Punjab.

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

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

Bibi Jagir Kaur of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leads with 1,1297 votes, while Sukhpal Singh Khaira of Congress in the second position with 10,857 votes.

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In the 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly elections, Bholath was won by Sukhpal Singh Khaira of the AAP. He defeated SAD's Yuvraj Bhupinder Singh.

Before that, in the 2012 Punjab vidhan sabha elections, the seat was held by SAD's Bibi Jagir Kaur.

In the 2017 assembly polls, Sukhpal Singh Khaira garnered 48,873 votes, securing 49.9 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 8,202 votes.

In percentage terms, the victory margin was 8.37 percent.

The total number of voters in the Bholath constituency stands at 1,36,413 with 67,079 male voters and 69,333 female voters.

The Bholath constituency has a literacy level of 70 percent.

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