Ambala City lies in the northern part of Haryana and is among 90 constituencies which are set to go for polls for Haryana Legislative Assembly on October 21. Ambala City falls under the Ambala Lok Sabha constituency and is a part of Ambala district. Bharatiya Janata Party’s Aseem Goel is the current MLA of Ambala City.
In the 2014 Haryana Vidhan Sabha (Haryana Legislative Assembly) Elections, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Aseem Goel defeated HJCP(V) hope Venod Sharma by a margin of more than 23 thousand votes. Goel registered 60216 votes, while Sharma received 36964 votes.
Demographics of Ambala City
As per provisional reports of Census India, the population of Ambala in 2011 is 195,153; of which male and female are 102,607 and 92,546 respectively. Although Ambala city has a population of 195,153; it’s urban/metropolitan population is 205,418 of which 111,475 are males and 93,943 are females.
Ambala City Vidhan Sabha Constituency
Constituency number: 05
Sitting MP, party: Aseem Goel, BJP
The winning margin in 2014: 23252
Runner up name, party: Venod Sharma, HJCP(V)
Key candidates in Ambala City for 2019 Vidhan Sabha elections
| INC | BJP |
Indian National Lok Dal (INLD)
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| Sh Jasbeer Mallour | Ashim Goyal | – |
Sitting and Previous MLAs of Ambala City Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency and margin of victories
| Year | Winner | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Party | Votes | Margin |
| 2014 | Aseem Goel | BJP | 60216 | Venod Sharma | HJCP(V) | 36964 | 23252 |
| 2009 | Venod Sharma | INC | 69435 | Bibi Charanjeet Kaur Mallour | SAD | 33885 | 35550 |
| 2005 | Venod Kumar Sharma | INC | 50618 | Surjit Singh | INLD | 15302 | 35316 |
| 2000 | Veena | BJP | 29949 | Kiran Bala | INC | 23840 | 6109 |
| 1996 | Faqir Chand | BJP | 28570 | Sumer Chand | INC | 24900 | 3670 |
| 1991 | Sumer Chand Bhatt | INC | 20489 | Faqir Chand Aggarwal | BJP | 19388 | 1101 |
| 1987 | Shiv Parsad | BJP | 25073 | Ram Yash | INC | 19632 | 5441 |
| 1982 | Shiv Prasad | BJP | 21847 | Sumer Chand | INC | 18646 | 3201 |
| 1977 | Shiv Prashad | JNP | 28237 | Lekh Wati Jain | INC | 8279 | 19958 |
Important dates
| Notification to be issued on | September 27 |
| Last date for filing nomination | October 4 |
| Scrutiny of nomination | October 5 |
| Last date for withdrawal of nomination | October 7 |
| Date of polling | October 21 |
| Date of Result | October 24 |
In the 2014 Haryana Assembly elections, held on 15 October 2014, the saffron party won the majority in the Assembly and Manohar Lal Khattar was chosen to head the new government.
