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{{short description|Legislative Assembly constituency in Punjab State, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox Vidhan Sabha constituency
|name = Amritsar Central
|parl_name = [[Punjab Legislative Assembly]]
|district = [[Amritsar district|Amritsar]]
|state = [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]
|electorate = {{formatnum:135954}}<ref name=electors>{{cite web |url=http://ceopunjab.nic.in/English/Elections/SE/VS2017/D03-Electors%20and%20Polling%20Stations%20VS%202017.pdf |title=Electors and Polling Stations - VS 2017 |author=Chief Electoral Officer - Punjab |access-date= 24 June 2021}}</ref>{{update after|2022|02}}
|lok_sabha_constituency = [[Amritsar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Amritsar]]
|year = [[2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election|2017]]
|party = [[Indian National Congress]]
|mla = [[Om Parkash Soni]]
|reserved = None
|map4 =
|map_size =
|established = 1951
}}

'''Amritsar Central Assembly Constituency''' (Sl. No.: 17) is a [[Punjab Legislative Assembly]] constituency in [[Amritsar district]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]] state, India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ceopunjab.nic.in/English/Elections/SE/List%20Of%20AC%20Name.pdf |title=List of Punjab Assembly Constituencies |accessdate=19 July 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423033326/http://ceopunjab.nic.in/english/Elections/SE/List%20Of%20AC%20Name.pdf |archivedate=23 April 2016 }}</ref>

==Member of Legislative Assembly==
* 2012: [[Om Parkash Soni]], [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Year
!Member
!Picture
!colspan="2"|Party
|-
|[[2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election|2017]]
| [[Om Parkash Soni]]<ref name=election2017/> ||
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
| [[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|}

==Election results==
===2017===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election]]: Amritsar Central<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.punjabassembly.nic.in/index.php/members/detail/22|title= Amritsar Central Assembly election result, 2012|accessdate= 13 January 2017}}</ref><ref name=election2017>{{cite web |url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3614-punjab-general-legislative-election-2017/ |title=Punjab General Legislative Election 2017 |author=Election Commission of India |access-date= 26 June 2021}}</ref>}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = [[Om Parkash Soni]]
|votes = 51242
|percentage = 53.86
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Tarun Chugh
|votes = 34,560
|percentage = 36.32
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Aam Aadmi Party
|candidate = ajay gupta
|votes = 7171
|percentage = 7.54
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = rajesh kumar
|votes = 500
|percentage = 0.53
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = avtar singh
|votes = 182
|percentage = 0.19
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Shander Singh
|votes = 164
|percentage = 0.17
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Ashok Kumar
|votes = 162
|percentage = 0.17
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = Aapna Punjab Party
|candidate = Keshav Kohli
|votes = 134
|percentage = 0.14
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Om Parkash
|votes = 108
|percentage = 0.11
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party =
|candidate = none of the above
|votes = 919
|percentage = 0.97

}}
{{Election box end}}

===2012===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2012 Punjab Legislative Assembly election]]: Amritsar Central}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.punjabassembly.nic.in/index.php/members/detail/22|title= Amritsar Central Assembly election result, 2012|accessdate= 13 January 2017}}</ref>
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = [[Om Parkash Soni]]
|votes = 47,357
|percentage = 55.32
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Tarun Chugh
|votes = 30126
|percentage = 40.37
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Vijay Kumar Misra
|votes = 1212
|percentage = 1.42
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Jagdish Raj
|votes = 808
|percentage = 0.94
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Rakesh Kumar
|votes = 737
|percentage = 0.86
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Baldev Bhardwaj
|votes = 304
|percentage = 0.36
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Narinder Shekhar Luthra
|votes = 180
|percentage = 0.21
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Om Prakash
|votes = 166
|percentage = 0.19
}}
{{Election box end}}

===Previous Results===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year||A C No.||Name||Party||Votes||Runner Up||Party||Votes
|-
|2007||17||[[Laxmi Kanta Chawla]]||BJP||18866||Darbari Lal||INC||15171
|-
|2002||18||[[Darbari Lal]]||INC||24286||Laxmi Kanta Chawla||BJP||18115
|-
|1997||18||Laxmi Kanta Chawla||BJP||27070||Darbari Lal||INC||12487
|-
|1992||18||Laxmi Kanta Chawla||BJP||22296||Darbari Lal||INC||18198
|-
|1985||18||[[Darbari Lal]]||INC||20486||Laxmi Kanta Chawla||BJP||20050
|-
|1980||18||[[Darbari Lal]]||INC(I)||29762||Dev Dutt Sharma||BJP||21622
|-
|1977||18||[[Balram Das Tandon]]||JNP||26802||Darbari Lal||INC||24176
|-
|1972||25||Partap Chand||INC||20905||Baldev Parkash||BJS||19384
|-
|1969||25||[[Balram Das Tandon]]||BJS||20018||Chandan Lal||INC||17867
|-
|1967||25||[[Balram Das Tandon]]||BJS||22404||J.I. Singh||INC||13256
|-
|1951||91||Amir Chand Gupta||INC||12684||Baldev Parkash||RRP||8104
|}

==References==
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{{Assembly constituencies of Punjab}}

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[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Punjab, India]]
[[Category:Amritsar district]]

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{{India-constituency-stub}}

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