Jalandhar: Jalandhar has given the country a Prime Minister in IK Gujral, Union Security Minister in Swaran Singh and many other cabinet ministers and MPs. Earlier this constituency was general but from 2009 this constituency was reserved for Scheduled Castes. A total of 18 elections have been held in this Lok Sabha constituency so far, including three by-elections in 1989, 1993 and 2023. Lok Sabha elections are going to be held on this seat for the 19th time this year. From this constituency, Congress has won 13 times, while Akali Dal has won 2 times, Janata Dal, Azad and Aam Aadmi Party have won once each.
Election Year Vote for the winning candidate (party) Vote for the losing candidate (party)
1951-52 Amarnath Alankar-1,00,103 (Congress) Ajit Singh-65645 (Akali Dal)
1957 Swaran Singh 2,55,545 (Congress) Channan Ram 1,54,583 (SCF)
1962 Swaran Singh 1,50,474 (Congress) Kartar Singh 81,393 (SWA)
1967 Swaran Singh 1,22,923 (Congress) SP Singh-91,443 (SWA)
1971 Swaran Singh 1,70,164 (Congress) Iqbal Singh Dhillon-76,695 (Akali Dal)
1977 Iqbal Singh Dhillon 2,61,568 (Akali Dal) Swaran Singh-1,43,450 (Congress)
1980 Rajinder Singh Sparrow 2,14,386 (Congress) Sarup Singh-1,42,065 (JNP)
1989 (Ground Election) IK Gujral 2,62,032 (Janata Dal) Rajinder Singh Sparrow 1,81,674 (Congress)
1992 Yash 1,60,168 (Congress) Jugal Mahajan-46355 (BJP)
1993 (Ground Election) Umrao Singh 2,86,923 (Congress) Kuldeep Singh Wadala-1,70,932 (Akali Dal)
1996 Darbara Singh-2,76897 (Akali Dal) Umrao Singh-2,58,342 (Congress)
1998 IK Gujral-3,80,749 (Independent) Umrao Singh-2,49,769 (Congress)
1999 Balbir Singh-2,67,209 (Congress) Prabhjot Kaur-2,32,643 (Akali Dal)
2004 Rana Gurjit Singh-3,44,619 (Congress) Naresh Gujral 3,11,156 (Akali Dal)
2009 (SC) Mohinder Singh KP 4,08,103 (Congress) Hans Raj Hans 3,71,658 (SAD-BJP)
2014 Santokh Singh Chaudhary 3,80,479 (Congress) Pawan Kumar TNU-3,09,498 (SAD-BJP)
2019 Santokh Singh Chaudhary-3,85,712 (Congress) Charanjit Singh Atwal-3,66,221 (Akali-BJP)
2023 (Ground Election) Sushil Kumar Rinku 3,02,279 (AAP) Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary-2,43,588 (Congress)