Chandigarh, March 17 -- Union Territory (UT) of Chandigarh, the joint capital of Haryana and Punjab, will be voting for its Member of Parliament on June 1 in the seventh and the last phase of the Lok Sabha election, schedule of which was announced by the Election Commission of India on Saturday.
Traditionally, the party in power at the Centre has an edge over its opponents in the Chandigarh Lok Sabha election. Interestingly, this parliamentary constituency did not exist during India's first general elections in 1952, but came into existence in 1967, when Srichand Goyal of Bharatiya Jana Sangh became the first Chandigarh MP.
The electoral dynamics in Chandigarh reflect a diverse demographic composition, with predominantly urban electorate ...