Jammu Lok Sabha constituency

{{Short description|Lok Sabha constituency in Jammu and Kashmir}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}

{{Use Indian English|date=April 2018}}

{{Infobox Indian constituency

| type = LS

| name = Jammu
{{Small|JK-5}}

| state = Jammu and Kashmir

| established = 1962

| electors = 17,80,835https://elections24.eci.gov.in/docs/WYKXFehhEH.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526095942/https://elections24.eci.gov.in/docs/WYKXFehhEH.pdf |date=26 May 2024 }} {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024}}

| map_image = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=y|frame-width=300|frame-height=300|frame-align=center|type=shape|from=Lok Sabha constituencies/2019/Jammu and Kashmir/Jammu.map}}

| map_caption = Interactive Map Outlining Jammu Lok Sabha constituency

| mp = Jugal Kishore Sharma

| party = {{Party index link|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

| latest_election_year = 2024

| assembly_cons = Gulabgarh
Reasi
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi
Ramgarh
Vijaypur
Nagrota
Jammu East
Jammu North
Jammu West
Bishnah
Ranbir Singh Pura
Bahu
Suchetgarh
Marh
Akhnoor
Kalakote-Sunderbani
Chhamb
Samba

| reservation = None

| incumbent_image = Jugal Kishore Sharma.jpg

| 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.

Assembly segments

class="wikitable"

! AC No.

! AC Name

! District

! Member

! colspan="2" |Party

56

|Gulabgarh (ST)

| rowspan="3" |Reasi

|Khurshied Ahmed

|{{Party name with color|Jammu & Kashmir National Conference}}

57

|Reasi

|Kuldeep Raj Dubey

|{{Party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

58

|Shri Mata Vaishno Devi

|Baldev Raj Sharma

|{{Party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

69

|Ramgarh (SC)

| rowspan="3" |Samba

|Devinder Kumar Manyal

|{{Party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

70

|Samba

|Surjeet Singh Slathia

|{{Party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

71

|Vijaypur

|Chander Prakash Ganga

|{{Party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

72

|Bishnah (SC)

| rowspan="11" |Jammu

|Rajeev Kumar

|{{Party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

73

|Suchetgarh (SC)

|Gharu Ram Bhagat

|{{Party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

74

|RS Pora-Jammu South

|Narinder Singh Raina

|{{Party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

75

|Bahu

|Vikram Randhawa

|{{Party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

76

|Jammu East

|Yudhvir Sethi

|{{Party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

77

|Nagrota

|Colspan=3|Vacant

78

|Jammu West

|Arvind Gupta

|{{Party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

79

|Jammu North

|Sham Lal Sharma

|{{Party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

80

|Marh (SC)

|Surinder Kumar

|{{Party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

81

|Akhnoor (SC)

|Mohan Lal

|{{Party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

82

|Chhamb

|Satish Sharma

|{{Party name with color|Independent|shortname=IND}}

83

|Kalakote-Sunderbani

|Rajouri

|Randhir Singh

|{{Party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

Members of Parliament

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Winner

! colspan=2|Party

1962

| rowspan="3" |Inder Jit Malhotra

| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=3}}

1967
1971
1977

|Thakur Baldev Singh

|{{Full party name with color|Independent (politician)}}

1980

|Girdhari Lal Dogra

|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress (I)|dab=yes}}

1984

| rowspan="2" |Janak Raj Gupta

| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress| rowspan=2}}

1989
1996

|Mangat Ram Sharma

|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

1998

| rowspan="2" |Vishno Datt Sharma

| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party| rowspan=2}}

1999
^2002

|Chowdhary Talib Hussain

|{{Full party name with color|Jammu & Kashmir National Conference}}

2004

| rowspan="2" |Madan Lal Sharma

| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}

2009
2014

| rowspan="3" |Jugal Kishore Sharma

| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party| rowspan=3}}

2019
2024

^ by poll

Election results

=2024=

{{Election box begin | title=2024 Indian general election: Jammu{{cite news |last1=Election Commission of India |title=2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Jammu |url=https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/candidateswise-U085.htm |access-date=22 July 2024 |date=4 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722125126/https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/candidateswise-U085.htm |archive-date=22 July 2024}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|candidate = Jugal Kishore Sharma

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|votes = 687,588

|percentage = 53.46

|change = {{down}}4.56

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Raman Bhalla

|party = Indian National Congress

|votes = 552,090

|percentage = 42.93

|change = {{up}}5.39

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Bahujan Samaj Party

|candidate = Jagdish Raj

|votes = 10,300

|percentage = 0.81

|change = {{down}}0.16

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = NOTA

|candidate = None of the Above

|votes = 4,645

|percentage = 0.36

|change = {{up}}0.18

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 135,498

|percentage = 10.53

|change = {{down}}9.95

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 1,302,176

|percentage = 72.22

|change = {{decrease}}0.28

}}

{{Election box hold with party link

|winner = BJP

|swing = {{down}}4.56

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{notelist}}

=General elections 2019=

{{Election box begin | title=2019 Indian general elections: Jammu}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Jugal Kishore Sharma|votes=858,066|percentage=58.02|change={{increase}}8.68}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Raman Bhalla|votes=555,191|percentage=37.54|change={{increase}}8.67}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Badri Nath|votes=14,276|percentage=0.97|change={{decrease}}1.51}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Prof. Bhim Singh|party=Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party|votes=4,016|percentage=0.27|change={{decrease}}0.45}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Subhash Chander|party=Independent (politician)|votes=3,739|percentage=0.25|change=New}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Shiv Sena|candidate=Manish Sahni|votes=1,192|percentage=0.08|change=New}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||party=None of the above|candidate=None of the Above|votes=2,618|percentage=0.18|change={{decrease}}0.17}}

{{Election box majority||votes=302,875|percentage=20.48|change={{increase}}0.01}}

{{Election box turnout||votes=1,484,387|percentage=72.50|change={{increase}}4.67}}

{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party

|loser =

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

=General elections 2014=

{{Election box begin | title=2014 Indian general elections: Jammu}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Jugal Kishore Sharma|votes=6,19,995|percentage=49.34|change={{increase}}18.46}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Madan Lal Sharma|votes=362,715|percentage=28.87|change={{decrease}}16.38}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party|candidate=Yashpal Sharma|votes=168,554|percentage=13.41|change={{increase}}2.32}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Ashok Kumar|votes=31,199|percentage=2.48|change={{decrease}}3.44}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Hari Chand Jalmeria|party=Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party|votes=9,071|percentage=0.72|change=New}}

{{Election box candidate|

|party = NOTA

|candidate = None of the Above

|votes = 4,382

|percentage = 0.35

|change = New

}}

{{Election box majority||votes=257,280|percentage=20.47|change={{increase}}6.07}}

{{Election box turnout||votes=1,253,593|percentage=67.83|change={{increase}}18.71}}

{{Election box gain with party link|

|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party

|loser = Indian National Congress

|swing = {{increase}}4.31

}}

{{Election box end}}

=General elections 2004=

{{Election box begin | title=2009 Indian general elections: Jammu}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Indian National Congress

|candidate = Madan Lal Sharma

|votes = 382,305

|percentage = 45.25

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|candidate = Lila Karan Sharma

|votes = 260,932

|percentage = 30.88

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party

|candidate = S. Tarlok Singh

|votes = 93,730

|percentage = 11.09

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Bahujan Samaj Party

|candidate = Hussain Ali

|votes = 49,988

|percentage = 5.92

|change =

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 121,373

|percentage = 14.40

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 842,899

|percentage = 49.12

|change =

}}

{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Indian National Congress

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

See also

References

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