Jammu Lok Sabha constituency

Jammu
Jammu
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Jammu and Kashmir
Assembly constituencies	Samba ; Vijaypur ; Nagrota ; Gandhinagar ; Jammu East ; Jammu West ; Bishnah ; Ranbir Singh Pura ; Suchetgarh ; Marh ; Raipur Domana ; Akhnoor ; Marh ; Chhamb ; Nowshera ; Kalakote
Established	1962
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
	17th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Jugal Kishore Sharma
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2019
Preceded by	Madan Lal Sharma

Jammu Lok Sabha constituency is one of the five Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir union territory of in northern India. This constituency was created in 1962.

Previous Assembly segments[edit]

Jammu Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:^[1]

Samba (SC) (assembly constituency no. 68)
Vijaypur (assembly constituency no. 69)
Nagrota (assembly constituency no. 70)
Gandhinagar (assembly constituency no. 71)
Jammu East (assembly constituency no. 72)
Jammu West (assembly constituency no. 73)
Bishnah (assembly constituency no. 74)
Ranbir Singh Pura (assembly constituency no. 75)
Suchetgarh (assembly constituency no. 76)
Marh (assembly constituency no. 77)
Raipur Domana (SC) (assembly constituency no. 78)
Akhnoor (assembly constituency no. 79)
Chhamb (SC) (assembly constituency no. 80)
Nowshera (assembly constituency no. 81)
Darhal (assembly constituency no. 82)
Rajouri (assembly constituency no. 83)
Kalakot (assembly constituency no. 84)
Surankote (assembly constituency no. 85)
Mendhar (assembly constituency no. 86)
Poonch-Haveli (assembly constituency no. 87)

New Assembly segments[edit]

AC No.	AC Name	District
56	Gulabgarh (ST)	Reasi
57	Reasi
58	Shri Mata Vaishno Devi
69	Ramgarh (SC)	Samba
70	Samba
71	Vijaypur
72	Bishnah (SC)	Jammu
73	Suchetgarh (SC)
74	R.S. Pura - Jammu South
75	Bahu
76	Jammu East
77	Nagrota
78	Jammu West
79	Jammu North
80	Marh (SC)
81	Akhnoor (SC)
82	Chhamb
83	Kalakote - Sunderbani	Rajouri

Members of Parliament[edit]

Year	Winner
1962	Inder Jit Malhotra	Indian National Congress
1967
1971
1977	Thakur Baldev Singh	Independent
1980	Girdhari Lal Dogra	Indian National Congress
1984	Janak Rai Gupta	Indian National Congress
1989	Janak Rai Gupta	Indian National Congress
1996	Mangat Ram Sharma	Indian National Congress
1998	Vishno Datt Sharma	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Vishno Datt Sharma	Bharatiya Janata Party
2002	Chowdhary Talib Hussain	Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
2004	Madan Lal Sharma	Indian National Congress
2009	Madan Lal Sharma	Indian National Congress
2014	Jugal Kishore Sharma	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Jugal Kishore Sharma	Bharatiya Janata Party

^ by poll

Election results[edit]

2024[edit]

2024 Indian general election: Jammu
Party		Candidate	Votes
	BJP	Jugal Kishore Sharma
	INC	Raman Bhalla
	Ekam Sanatan Bharat Dal	Ankur Sharma
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

General elections 2019[edit]

2019 Indian general elections: Jammu
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jugal Kishore Sharma	858,066	58.02	8.68
	INC	Raman Bhalla	5,55,191	37.54	8.67
	BSP	Badri Nath	14,276	0.97	1.51
	JKNPP	Prof. Bhim Singh	4,016	0.27	0.45
	Independent	Subhash Chander	3,739	0.25	New
	SHS	Manish Sahni	1,192	0.08	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,618	0.18	0.17
Majority			3,02,875	20.40	0.07
Turnout			14,84,387	72.50	4.67
	BJP hold		Swing

General elections 2014[edit]

2014 Indian general elections: Jammu
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jugal Kishore Sharma	619,995	49.34	18.46
	INC	Madan Lal Sharma	3,62,715	28.87	16.38
	JKPDP	Yashpal Sharma	1,68,554	13.41	2.32
	BSP	Ashok Kumar	31,199	2.48	3.44
	JKNPP	Hari Chand Jalmeria	9,071	0.72	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	4,382	0.35	New
Majority			2,57,280	20.47	6.07
Turnout			12,53,593	67.83	18.71
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	4.31

General elections 2009[edit]

2009 Indian general elections: Jammu
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Madan Lal Sharma	382,305	45.25
	BJP	Lila Karan Sharma	2,60,932	30.88
	JKPDP	S. Tarlok Singh	93,730	11.09
	BSP	Hussain Ali	49,988	5.92
Majority			1,21,373	14.40
Turnout			8,42,899	49.12
	INC hold		Swing

References[edit]

^ "Assembly Constituencies - Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir". Chief Electoral Officer, Jammu and Kashmir. Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2008.

External links[edit]

Jammu lok sabha constituency election 2019 date and schedule

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[1] "Assembly Constituencies - Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir". Chief Electoral Officer, Jammu and Kashmir. Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2008.

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