Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency

Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the five Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir in northern India.

Srinagar JK-2
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
Union Territory	Jammu and Kashmir
Assembly constituencies	Kangan Ganderbal Hazratbal Lal Chowk Channapora Zadibal Eidgah Khanyar Central Shalteng Habba Kadal Pampore Tral Pulwama Chadoora Rajpora Shopian Khan Sahib Charari Sharief
Established	1967
Total electors	17,47,810[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi
Party	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference
Elected year	2024

Assembly segments

Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments Assembly Segments

AC No.	AC Name	District	Member	Party
17	Kangan (ST)	Ganderbal	Mian Mehar Ali		JKNC
18	Ganderbal		Omar Abdullah		JKNC
19	Hazratbal	Srinagar	Salman Sagar		JKNC
20	Khanyar		Ali Mohammad Sagar		JKNC
21	Habba Kadal		Shamim Firdous		JKNC
22	Lal Chowk		Sheikh Ahsan Ahmed		JKNC
23	Channapora		Mushtaq Guroo		JKNC
24	Zadibal		Tanvir Sadiq		JKNC
25	Eidgah		Mubarak Gul		JKNC
26	Central Shalteng		Tariq Hameed Karra		INC
29	Khan Sahib	Budgam	Saif Ud Din Bhat		JKNC
30	Chrar-i-Sharief		Abdul Rahim Rather		JKNC
31	Chadoora		Ali Mohammad Dar		JKNC
32	Pampore	Pulwama	Hasnain Masoodi		JKNC
33	Tral		Rafiq Ahmad Naik		JKPDP
34	Pulwama		Waheed Ur Rehman Para		JKPDP
35	Rajpora		Ghulam Mohi Uddin Mir		JKNC
37	Shopian	Shopian	Shabir Ahmad Kullay		IND

Members of Parliament

Year	Winner	Party
1967	Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad		Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
1971	S. A. Shamim		Independent
1977	Begum Akbar Jehan Abdullah		Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
1980	Farooq Abdullah
1983^	Abdul Rashid Kabuli
1984
1989	Mohammad Shafi Bhat
1996	Ghulam Mohammad Mir Magami		Indian National Congress
1998	Omar Abdullah		Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
1999
2004
2009	Farooq Abdullah
2014	Tariq Hameed Karra		Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party
2017^	Farooq Abdullah		Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
2019
2024	Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi

^ by poll

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Srinagar^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JKNC	Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi	356,866	52.85	4.29
	JKPDP	Waheed Para	1,68,450	24.95	5.31
	JKAP	Mohammad Ashraf Mir	65,954	9.77
	NOTA	None of the Above	5,998	0.89
Majority			1,88,416	27.90
Turnout			6,75,242	38.49	24.06
	JKNC hold		Swing

General election 2019

Srinagar Lok Sabha seat had 11,06,729 total electorate count in 2009, and that count typically goes up by 35-40% over 10 years in India.^[3] Due to the security situation in the valley, there was only 13% voter turn-out in Srinagar seat in May 2019. On the other hand, Udhampur enjoyed voter turn-out of 66% because of the better law and order situation in Jammu area.^[4] In 70 polling booths of Srinagar Lok Sabha seat, not a single vote was cast due to the fear of violence.^[5]

2019 Indian general elections: Srinagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JKNC	Farooq Abdullah	106,750	57.14	3.12
	JKPDP	Aga Syed Mohsin	36,700	19.64	22.39
	JKPC	Irfan Raza Ansari	28,773	15.4	New
	BJP	Khalid Jahangir	4,631	2.48	1.05
	JD(U)	Showkat Hussain Khan	1,250	0.67	New
	JKNPP	Abdual Rashid Ganie	791	0.42	New
	SS	Abdul Khaliq Bhat	578	0.31	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,566	0.84	0.20
Majority			70,050	37.50	25.51
Turnout			1,86,863	14.43	7.31
	JKNC hold		Swing

2017 by-election

Bye-election, 2017: Srinagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JKNC	Farooq Abdullah	48,555	54.02	16.98
	JKPDP	Nazir Ahmad Khan	37,779	42.03	8.55
	IND.	Farooq Ahmad Dar	630	0.70	New
	IND.	Mehraj Khourshid Malik	576	0.64	New
	AJKLDP	Bikram Singh	496	0.55	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	931	1.04	0.55
Majority			10,776	11.99	1.55
Turnout			89,883	7.12	18.74
	JKNC gain from JKPDP		Swing	3.44

General elections 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Srinagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JKPDP	Tariq Hameed Karra	157,923	50.58	9.28
	JKNC	Farooq Abdullah	1,15,643	37.04	14.96
	IND	Aga Syed Mohsin	16,050	5.14	New
	BJP	Fayaz Ahmad Bhat	4,467	1.43	0.72
	AAP	Dr. Raja Muzaffar Bhat	3,271	1.05	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	4,979	1.59	New
Majority			42,281	13.54	2.84
Turnout			3,12,212	25.86	0.31
	JKPDP gain from JKNC		Swing	1.42

General elections 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Srinagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JKNC	Farooq Abdullah	147,035	52.00	1.70
	JKPDP	Iftikhar Hussain Ansari	1,16,793	41.30	2.84
	BJP	Avtar Kishan Pandita	1,994	0.71	0.90
Majority			30,239	10.70	1.14
Turnout			2,82,761	25.55	6.98
	JKNC hold		Swing

General elections 2004

General Election, 2004: Srinagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JKNC	Omar Abdullah	98,422	50.30
	JKPDP	Ghulam Nabi Lone	75,263	38.46
	Independent	Nazir Ahmad Khan	6,873	3.51
	BJP	Iftikhar Sadiq	3,154	1.61
Majority			23,159	11.84
Turnout			195,678	18.57
	JKNC hold		Swing

See also

• Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency