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Amritsar Lok Sabha Election Result 2019 Punjab: BJP's Hardeep Puri loses to Cong's Gurjit Singh Aujla

Hardeep Singh Puri lost to sitting Congress MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla.

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Amritsar Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

In Amritsar, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri lost to sitting Congress MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla.  While Aujla got 4,44,052 (51.78%) votes, Puri finished with 3,44,049 (40.19%) votes. 

Punjab  Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

The Congress is set to improve its tally in Punjab to eight seats, while the SAD-BJP combine and the Aam Aadmi Party are heading for four and one seats, respectively.

The Congress won in Amritsar, Faridkot, Anandpur Sahib, Jalandhar, Khadoor Sahib, Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib and Patiala seats.

The Shiromani Akali Dal, which was looking to resurrect itself in the polls following the backlash over the issue of desecration of religious scriptures, registered victory from Ferozepur and Bathinda seats. While SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal won from Ferozepur, union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal won from Bathinda for the third time. 

The BJP took the Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur seats. Actor-turned-politician Sunny Deol beat state Congress chief Sunil Jakhar in Gurdaspur. In Hoshiarpur, BJP candidate and former bureaucrat Som Prakash emerged victorious.

The Aam Aadmi Party appears to be decimated in Punjab as it held only Sangrur seat, where the party's state chief, Bhagwant Mann held on to his seat.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, while the SAD-BJP combine had won six seats, AAP and the Congress had bagged four and three seats, respectively.

Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency profile 

The election in Amritsar parliamentary constituency was held in the 7th phase (last phase) on May 19 of the general election 2019. The key contest here was held among BJP's Hardeep Singh Puri, who is also serving as Union Minister in Modi cabinet, Congress' Gurjit Singh Aujla and AAP's Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal.

Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency 2019 candidates

BJP: Hardeep Singh Puri

Congress: Gurjit Singh Aujla

AAP: Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal

Amritsar Lok Sabha results 2014, 2009 and 2004

2014

Winning candidate: Captain Amarinder Singh (Congress)

Losing candidate: Arun Jaitley (BJP)

2009

Winning candidate: Navjot Singh Sidhu (BJP)

Losing candidate:  Om Parkash Soni (Congress)

2004

Winning candidate: Navjot Singh Sidhu (BJP)

Losing candidate: Surinder Singla (Congress)

Punjab has 13 parliamentary constituencies where the election will be held in the last phase of the general election on May 19. In 2014, out of total 13 Lok Sabha seats, Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal's led SAD) had won 4 seats, Kejriwal's AAP had also won 4 seats, Congress bagged 3 seats and BJP won only 2 seats. The vote share of the Congress party in 2014 was 33.2%, while BJP got only 8.8% votes.

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