# Barnala Assembly constituency

Barnala Assembly constituency (Sl. No.: 103) is a Punjab Legislative Assembly constituency in Barnala district, Punjab state, India.

## Members of the Legislative Assembly

| Year | Member | Party |
| 1997 | Malkit Singh Keetu | Independent |
| 2002 | Malkit Singh Keetu | Shiromani Akali Dal |
| 2007 | Kewal Singh Dhillon | Indian National Congress |
| 2012 | Kewal Singh Dhillon | Indian National Congress |
| 2017 | Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer | Aam Aadmi Party |
| 2022 | Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer | Aam Aadmi Party |
| 2024^ | Kuldeep Singh Dhillon | Indian National Congress |
^By-poll

## Election results
### 2024 by-election

Punjab Legislative Assembly by-election 2024: Barnala :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | INC | Kuldeep Singh Dhillon | 28,254 | 28.24 |
| | AAP | Harinder Singh Dhaliwal | 26,097 | 26.09 |
| | BJP | Kewal Singh Dhillon | 17,958 | 17.95 |
| | Independent | Gurdeep Bathh | 16,899 | 16.89 |
| | SAD(A) | Govind Singh Sandhu | 7,900 | 7.90 |
| | NOTA | | 618 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 2,157 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,00,042 | 56.34% |
| | INC gain from AAP | INC gain from AAP | Swing | |

### 2022

Assembly election, 2022: Barnala :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AAP | Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer | 64,800 | 49.27 | |
| | SAD | Kulwant Singh Keetu | 27,178 | 20.66 | |
| | INC | Manish Bansal | 16,853 | 12.81 | |
| | SAD(A) | Gurpreet Singh | 9,917 | 7.54 | |
| | BJP | Dhiraj Kumar | 9,122 | 6.94 | |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 855 | 0.65 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 37,622 | 28.61 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 131,532 | 71.81 | |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 182,502 | | |
| | AAP hold | AAP hold | AAP hold | AAP hold | AAP hold |

### 2017

Assembly election, 2017: Barnala :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AAP | Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer | 47,606 | 35.49 | |
| | INC | Kewal Singh Dhillon | 45,174 | 33.67 | |
| | SAD | Surinder Pal Singh Sibia | 31,111 | 23.19 | |
| | SAD(A) | Simranjit Singh Mann | 5,061 | 3.77 | |
| | BSP | Paramjit Kaur | 2,369 | 1.77 | |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 889 | 0.66 | |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 171,962 | | |
| | AAP gain from INC | AAP gain from INC | AAP gain from INC | AAP gain from INC | AAP gain from INC |

### Previous Results

| Year | A C No. | Name | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Party | Votes |
| 2012 | 103 | Kewal Singh Dhillon | INC | 54570 | Malkit Singh Keetu | SAD | 49048 |
| 2007 | 82 | Kewal Singh Dhillon | INC | 58723 | Malkit Singh Keetu | SAD | 57359 |
| 2002 | 83 | Malkit Singh Keetu | SAD | 37575 | Surinder Pal Singh | INC | 21305 |
| 1997 | 83 | Malkiat Singh Keetu | IND | 41819 | Rajinder Kaur | SAD | 18105 |
| 1992 | 83 | Som Dutt | INC | 4289 | Malkit Singh | SAD | 3473 |
| 1985 | 83 | Surjit Singh | SAD | 31152 | Hardeep Kumar | INC | 20540 |
| 1980 | 83 | Surjit Singh | SAD | 30289 | Narinder Singh | INC (I) | 26979 |
| 1977 | 83 | Surjit Kaur | SAD | 26250 | Som Dutt | INC | 18395 |
| 1972 | 89 | Surjit Singh | SAD | 30152 | Onkar Chand | INC | 18849 |
| 1969 | 89 | Surjeet Singh | SAD | 25442 | Gurcharan Singh | INC | 22657 |
| 1967 | 89 | S. Singh | ADS | 24271 | R. Singh | INC | 10119 |
| 1965 | By Polls | S. Singh | INC | 29820 | A. Sarup | IND | 12296 |
| 1962 | 150 | Gurbakshish Singh | AD | 26882 | Sampuran Singh | INC | 24789 |
| 1957 | 113 | Kartar Singh | INC | 16027 | Gurbakshish Singh | IND | 15608 |