Punjab Election Results 2022 Updates: AAP sweeps Punjab with three-fourths majority

“We urged the voters ‘jhadoo chalao’, unhone toh vacuum cleaner chala diya.” AAP’s Raghav Chadha pretty much summed up the feeling not only within the party but also among pollsters and the opposition parties, reduced to also-rans. The Aam Aadmi Party, which promised quality health and educational services on the lines of Delhi, overrode politics of caste, regionalism and Deras to bag a whopping majority of 92 seats in the 117-member House.

Aam Aadmi Party’s meteoric rise in Punjab, coupled with Congress’ decimation and Trinamool Congress’ ill-conceived move to occupy opposition space in Goa in the just-concluded assembly elections, will boost Arvind Kejriwal’s standing in the opposition space.

The outcome in UP, Punjab and Uttarakhand has exposed the carefully confected myth of farmers being a monolithic constituency who could be herded into voting for platforms preferred by the leaders.

Almost every regional party has at one point of time or the other ventured beyond its "home state"; some have even harboured ambitions of "going national". Think TMC, Shiv Sena, SP, BSP, JDU, NCP… They have without exception come a cropper.

It was an embarrassing walk to the pavilion for Capt Amarinder Singh after a grand walkout from Congress six months ago. The two-time former chief minister was defeated in his pocket-borough Patiala after three consecutive terms from here since 2002.

With its landslide victory in Punjab assembly polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has achieved a major milestone in its journey so far and emerged as an alternative in the national politics.

Popular Punjabi singer and Congress candidate Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, also called Sidhu Moosewala, faced defeat from the Mansa Assembly seat on Thursday.

As Aam Aadmi Party's tsunami swept Punjab, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal who was contesting from Jalalabad seat lost to AAP candidate Jagdeep Goldie Kamboj. Addressing the media after the win, Kamboj thanked the people of the constituency for blessing him with such a massive victory.

Thirteen of the 93 women who contested the Punjab polls tasted victory and 11 of them belong to the Aam Aadmi Party, which registered a landslide win bagging 92 of the 117 assembly seats. Most of the AAP women candidates who won are greenhorns.From Amritsar East, Jeevanjyot Kaur of AAP defeated Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu by a margin of 6,750 votes. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia was also contesting from the seat, but he ended up at the third spot.

The Aam Aadmi Party got a three-fourths majority in the assembly polls in Punjab, bagging 42 per cent of the votes cast -- an increase of 18 percentage points over the 2017 elections.The AAP, which turned out to be the single largest party, by bagging 92 seats in the 117-member assembly completely outclassed traditional players like the Congress, BJP, SAD and BSP.

As the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) registered a historic win in Punjab Assembly polls by winning a three-fourths majority with 92 seats - the highest number of seats won by any party in the state in over four decades, former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday said that Punjabis have shown the true spirit of Punjabiyat by rising and voting above sectarian and caste lines, and congratulated AAP and its chief ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann.

AAP has bagged a historic win in Punjab Assembly polls by winning a three-fourths majority with 92 seats - the highest number of seats won by any party in the state in over four decades. It is AAP's maiden victory in the state and a vast improvement from its performance in the 2017 elections when it had finished second behind Congress.

Rising from the ashes like the phoenix, the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday, in a maiden emphatic win, crushed the traditional players that ruled the border state of Punjab for over seven decades with a stunning victory largely by its greenhorns on 92 of the 117 seats of the legislative assembly.Bhagwant Mann, the party's pick for the top post, is all set to become the next Chief Minister.The ruling Congress, which won 77 seats in 2017, managed to win only 18 seats with most of its stalwart faces like Chief Minister Charanjit Channi and state party chief Navjot Singh Sidhu faced humiliating defeat from their respective strongholds.

Promise of better public services, good quality schools and hospitals, which got the AAP two consecutive terms in Delhi, remained the consistent campaign theme for the party led by Arvind Kejriwal in polls in Punjab where the party swept the assembly polls on Thursday.Caught in a multi-cornered contest along with the Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal in the state, Kejriwal had unveiled a 10 point 'Punjab Model', drawn from its model of governance in Delhi, and assured the voters of creating a new-age, prosperous, and forward-looking Punjab.

Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal lost to AAP's Jagdeep Kamboj from Jalalabad seat in Punjab's Fazilka district, according to poll results declared on Thursday.Sukhbir, the son of former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, lost by a margin of 30,930 votes.Notably, Sukhbir who is SAD MP from Ferozepur, had entered the fray from Jalalabad assembly constituency.