Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency

Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the six Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir in northern India. The constituency covers 20,230 square kilometres of mountainous Himalayan terrain, and is comparable to the size of Israel. It is composed of the districts of Kishtwar, Ramban, Kathua, Doda, and Udhampur. Udhampur constituency's population is over 2,400,000, and exceeds the population of New Mexico. The seat from 1967 to 1980 was held by Karan Singh, the former crown prince of Jammu and Kashmir.

Udhampur JK-4
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
Union Territory	Jammu and Kashmir
Established	1957
Total electors	16,23,195[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Jitendra Singh
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Assembly segments

Following is the list of Legislative Assembly Constituencies that fall under Udhampur Lok Sabha in the of Jammu and Kashmir after delimitation was undertaken in 2022.^[2][3][4]

AC No.	AC Name	District	Member	Party
48	Inderwal	Kishtwar	Payare Lal Sharma		IND
49	Kishtwar		Shagun Parihar		BJP
50	Padder-Nagseni		Sunil Kumar Sharma		BJP
51	Bhadarwah	Doda	Daleep Singh Parihar		BJP
52	Doda		Mehraj Malik		AAP
53	Doda West		Shakti Raj		BJP
54	Ramban	Ramban	Arjun Singh Raju		JKNC
55	Banihal		Sajad Shaheen		JKNC
59	Udhampur West	Udhampur	Pawan Kumar Gupta		BJP
60	Udhampur East		Ranbir Singh Pathania		BJP
61	Chenani		Balwant Singh Mankotia		BJP
62	Ramnagar (SC)		Sunil Bhardwaj		BJP
63	Bani	Kathua	Rameshwar Singh		IND
64	Billawar		Satish Kumar Sharma		BJP
65	Basohli		Darshan Kumar		BJP
66	Jasrota		Rajiv Jasrotia		BJP
67	Kathua (SC)		Bharat Bhushan		BJP
68	Hiranagar		Vijay Kumar		BJP

Members of Parliament

Year	Winner	Party
1957	Inderjit Malhotra		Indian National Congress
1967	Karan Singh
1968^	G. S. Brigadier
1971	Karan Singh
1977
1980			Indian National Congress (U)
1984	Girdhari Lal Dogra		Indian National Congress
1989	Dharam Paul
1996	Chaman Lal Gupta		Bharatiya Janata Party
1998
1999
2004	Chaudhary Lal Singh		Indian National Congress
2009
2014	Jitendra Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2019
2024

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Election results

2024

2024 Indian general election: Udhampur^[5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jitendra Singh	571,076	51.28	10.10
	INC	Chaudhary Lal Singh	4,46,703	40.11	9.01
	DPAP	G. M. Saroori	39,599	3.56	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	12,938	1.16	0.52
Majority			1,24,373	11.17	19.11
Turnout			11,13,696	68.27	2.74
	BJP hold		Swing	10.10

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Udhampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jitendra Singh	724,311	61.38	14.60
	INC	Vikramaditya Singh	3,67,059	31.10	9.83
	JKNPP	Harsh Dev Singh	24,319	2.06	0.37
	DSSP	Chaudhary Lal Singh	19,049	1.61	New
	BSP	Tilak Raj Bhagat	16,601	1.41	0.17
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,568	0.64	0.37
Majority			3,57,252	30.28	24.43
Turnout			11,82,680	71.01	0.10
	BJP hold		Swing	14.60

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Udhampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jitendra Singh	487,369	46.78	11.07
	INC	Ghulam Nabi Azad	4,26,393	40.93	3.03
	JKPDP	Mohd. Arshad Malik	30,461	2.92	2.03
	JKNPP	Bhim Singh	25,312	2.43	8.93
	BSP	Dharam Pal Balgotra	16,437	1.58	1.93
	IND	Anil Khajuria	15,188	1.46	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	10,478	1.01	New
Majority			60,976	5.85	3.66
Turnout			10,41,758	70.91	26.03
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	8.86

2009

2009 Indian general elections: Udhampur^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ch. Lal Singh	231,853	37.90	1.71
	BJP	Nirmal Kumar Singh	2,18,459	35.71	3.86
	JKNPP	Bhim Singh	69,463	11.36	3.16
	JKPDP	Balbir Singh	30,294	4.95	New
	BSP	Rakesh Wazir	21,445	3.51	0.39
	CPI	Adrees Ahmad Tabbasum	16,598	2.71	New
Majority			13,394	2.19	0.06
Turnout			13,63,060	44.90	0.19
	INC hold		Swing

2004

2004 Indian general elections: Udhampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ch. Lal Singh	240,872	39.61
	BJP	Chaman Lal Gupta	1,93,697	31.85
	JKNC	Khalid Najib Suharwardy	69,971	11.51
	JKNPP	Bhim Singh	49,869	8.20
	BSP	Jia Lal Verma	18,974	3.12
Majority			47,175	7.76
Turnout			6,08,074	45.09
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

See also

• Doda district
• Kathua district
• Kishtwar district
• Ramban district
• Udhampur district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

1. "EC releases absolute number of voters for all completed phases" (PDF). elections24.eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. 25 May 2024.
2. "Notification by Delimitation Commission" (PDF). egazette.nic.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 October 2022.
3. "Final Delimitation Order" (PDF). Jammu and Kashmir CEO. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2022.
4. "Constituency map" (PDF). Jammu and Kashmir CEO. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 May 2023.
5. "Jammu & Kashmir 2024". Election Commission of India.
6. Election Commission of India (4 June 2024). "2024 Loksabha Elections Results - UDHAMPUR". Archived from the original on 22 July 2024. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
7. "Jammu & Kashmir 2009". Chief Electoral Officer, J&K.

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