2024 Indian general election in Punjab

Not to be confused with 2024 Punjab provincial election.

2024 Indian general election in Punjab

1 June 2024
All 13 Punjab seats in the Lok Sabha
Opinion polls
Leader Amrinder Singh Raja Warring Sukhbir Singh Badal Party INC SAD Alliance INDIA Leader since 2022 2019 Leader's seat Ludhiana Not contesting Last election 40.12%, 8 seats 27.45%, 2 seats   Leader Sunil Kumar Jakhar Bhagwant Mann Party BJP AAP Alliance NDA INDIA Leader since 2023 2019 Leader's seat Not contesting Not contesting Last election 9.63%, 2 seats 7.86%, 1 seat
Constituencies in the state. Constituencies in yellow represent seats reserved for Scheduled Castes.
Incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi BJP

The 2024 Indian general election in Punjab will be held on 1 June 2024 to elect 13 members of 18th Lok Sabha.

Background and overview

The previous general election were held in May 2019 in Punjab, in which the Indian National Congress won 8 seats, followed by the Shiromani Akali Dal and the Bharatiya Janata Party, which won 2 seats each. In 2022, Bhagwant Mann resigned as MP from Sangrur to become Chief Minister of Punjab. A by-election for the constituency was held in June 2022, where Simranjit Singh Mann defeated Gurmail Singh of the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party. In January 2023, the Jalandhar constituency became vacant after the death of the incumbent MP, Santokh Singh Chaudhary of INC. In May 2023, Sushil Kumar Rinku of AAP defeated Karamjit Kaur of INC.

Defections

In March 2024, Raj Kumar Chabbewal and Gurpreet Singh GP of INC joined AAP, both were announced candidates from Hoshiarpur and Fatehgarh Sahib constituencies respectively. Patiala MP Preneet Kaur joined BJP. Sushil Rinku, who was announced as the AAP candidate for Jalandhar constituency, joined BJP, he was member of INC prior to AAP. Ravneet Singh Bittu, MP from Ludhiana, joined BJP. In April 2024, former MLA Pawan Kumar Tinu of SAD joined AAP, and was announced candidate for Jalandhar.

Election schedule

The election schedule was announced by Election Commission of India on 16 March 2024. The elections are to be held in seven phases throughout the country, with Punjab in the last phase.

Poll event	Phase
	VII
Notification Date	7 May
Last Date for filing nomination	14 May
Scrutiny of nomination	15 May
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination	17 May
Date of poll	1 June
Date of counting of votes/Result	4 June 2024
No. of constituencies	13

Parties and alliances

  Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance

In Punjab, INDIA member parties AAP and INC decided to contest independently so as to avoid opposition space to SAD and BJP.

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Aam Aadmi Party			Bhagwant Mann	13
	Indian National Congress			Amrinder Singh Raja Warring	13

  Shiromani Akali Dal

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Shiromani Akali Dal			Sukhbir Singh Badal	13

  National Democratic Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Bharatiya Janata Party			Sunil Kumar Jakhar	13

Others

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar)			Simranjit Singh Mann	13
	Bahujan Samaj Party			Jasvir Singh Garhi	TBD
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)			Purshottam Lal Bilga	01

Candidates

Constituency
		INDIA						SAD			NDA
		INC			AAP
1	Gurdaspur		INC	Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa		AAP	Amansher Singh		SAD	Daljit Singh Cheema		BJP	Dinesh Singh
2	Amritsar		INC	Gurjeet Singh Aujla		AAP	Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal		SAD	Anil Joshi		BJP	Taranjit Singh Sandhu
3	Khadoor Sahib		INC	Kulbir Singh Zira		AAP	Laljit Singh Bhullar		SAD	Virsa Singh Valtoha		BJP	Manjeet Singh Manna Mianwind
4	Jalandhar (SC)		INC	Charanjit Singh Channi		AAP	Pawan Kumar Tinu		SAD	Mohinder Singh Kaypee		BJP	Sushil Kumar Rinku
5	Hoshiarpur (SC)		INC	Yamini Gomar		AAP	Raj Kumar Chabbewal		SAD	Sohan Singh Thandal		BJP	Anita Parkash
6	Anandpur Sahib		INC	Vijay Inder Singla		AAP	Malvinder Singh Kang		SAD	Prem Singh Chandumajra		BJP
7	Ludhiana		INC	Amrinder Singh Raja Warring		AAP	Ashok Parashar Pappi		SAD	Ranjit Singh Dhillon		BJP	Ravneet Singh Bittu
8	Fatehgarh Sahib (SC)		INC	Amar Singh		AAP	Gurpreet Singh GP		SAD	Bikramjit Singh Khalsa		BJP
9	Faridkot (SC)		INC	Amarjit Kaur Sahoke		AAP	Karamjit Anmol		SAD	Rajwinder Singh		BJP	Hans Raj Hans
10	Firozpur		INC			AAP	Jagdeep Singh Kaka Brar		SAD	Nardev Singh Mann		BJP
11	Bathinda		INC	Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu		AAP	Gurmeet Singh Khudian		SAD	Harsimrat Kaur Badal		BJP	Parampal Kaur Sidhu
12	Sangrur		INC	Sukhpal Singh Khaira		AAP	Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer		SAD	Iqbal Singh Jhundan		BJP
13	Patiala		INC	Dharamvir Gandhi		AAP	Balbir Singh		SAD	Narinder Kumar Sharma		BJP	Preneet Kaur

Surveys and polls

Opinion polls

Polling agency	Date published	Margin of Error					Lead
			INDIA	NDA	SAD	Others
ABP News-CVoter	March 2024	±5%	11	1	1	0	I.N.D.I.A.
India Today-CVoter	February 2024	±3-5%	10	2	1	0	I.N.D.I.A.
ABP-CVoter	December 2023	±3-5%	9-11	0-2	0-2	0	I.N.D.I.A.
Times Now-ETG	December 2023	±3%	6-10	3-5	1-2	0-1	I.N.D.I.A.
India TV-CNX	October 2023	±3%	11	1	1	0	I.N.D.I.A.
Times Now-ETG	September 2023	±3%	8-11	1-3	1-2	0	I.N.D.I.A.
	August 2023	±3%	8-12	1-2	1-2	0-1	I.N.D.I.A.

Polling agency	Date published	Margin of Error					Lead
			INDIA	NDA	SAD	Others
ABP News-CVoter	March 2024	±5%	57%	16%	17%	10%	40
India Today-CVoter	February 2024	±3-5%	65%	17%	18%		47

Results

Results by alliance or party

Alliance/ Parties				Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	INDIA		INC				13
			AAP				13
		Total					26
	SAD						13
	NDA		BJP				13
	BSP						13
	Others
	IND
	NOTA
Total					100%	-		13	-

Results by constituency

Constituency		Winner							Runner Up							Margin
No.	Name	Party		Alliance		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Alliance		Candidate	Votes	%
1	Gurdaspur
2	Amritsar
3	Khadoor Sahib
4	Jalandhar (SC)
5	Hoshiarpur (SC)
6	Anandpur Sahib
7	Ludhiana
8	Fatehgarh Sahib (SC)
9	Faridkot (SC)
10	Firozpur
11	Bathinda
12	Sangrur
13	Patiala

See also

• 2024 Indian general election in Rajasthan
• 2024 Indian general election in Sikkim
• 2024 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu