Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency

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Anantnag
Former Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
Union TerritoryJammu and Kashmir
Established1967
Abolished2024

Anantnag was a Lok Sabha constituency in Jammu and Kashmir in northern India. This constituency came into existence in 1967 and it was officially replaced and renamed as the Anantnag-Rajouri Constituency in May 2022.

Assembly segments[edit | edit source]

Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following 16 assembly segments:[1]

  1. Tral
  2. Pampore
  3. Pulwama
  4. Rajpora
  5. Wachi
  6. Shopian
  7. Noorabad
  8. Kulgam
  9. Hom Shali Bugh
  10. Anantnag
  11. Devsar
  12. Dooru
  13. Kokernag
  14. Shangus
  15. Bijbehara
  16. Pahalgam

Members of Parliament[edit | edit source]

Year Winner Party
1967 Mohammad Shafi Qureshi Indian National Congress
1971
1977
1980 Ghulam Rasool Kochak Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
1984 Begum Akbar Jahan Abdullah
1989 Piyare Lal Handoo
1996 Mohammad Maqbool Dar Janata Dal
1998 Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Indian National Congress
1999 Ali Muhammad Naik Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
2004 Mehbooba Mufti Jammu & Kashmir People's Democratic Party
2009 Mirza Mehboob Beg Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
2014 Mehbooba Mufti Jammu & Kashmir People's Democratic Party
2019 Hasnain Masoodi Jammu & Kashmir National Conference

Election results[edit | edit source]

2019[edit | edit source]

2019 Indian general elections: Anantnag
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JKNC Hasnain Masoodi 40,180 32.17 −3.81
INC Ghulam Ahmad Mir 33,504 26.83 New
JKPDP Mehbooba Mufti 30,524 24.44 −28.97
BJP Sofi Yousuf 10,225 8.19 +6.93
JKPC Ch. Zaffar Ali 1,646 1.32 New
NOTA None of the Above 937 0.75
Majority 6,676 5.34 −12.09
Turnout 1,24,896 8.96 −19.88
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference gain from Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party Swing

General election 2014[edit | edit source]

2014 Indian general elections: Anantnag
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JKPDP Mehbooba Mufti 2,00,429 53.41 +8.51
JKNC Mirza Mehboob Beg 1,35,012 35.98 −10.55
Independent Tanveer Hussain Khan 7,340 1.96 New
BJP Mushtaq Ahmad Malik 4,720 1.26 +0.03
JKNPP Syed Abid Ahmad Shah 4,345 1.16 New
NOTA None of the Above 5,936 1.58 New
Majority 65,417 17.43 +15.80
Turnout 3,75,279 28.84 +1.74
Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party gain from Jammu & Kashmir National Conference Swing +6.88

General election 2009[edit | edit source]

2009 Indian general elections: Anantnag[2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JKNC Mirza Mehboob Beg 148,317 46.53 +22.90
JKPDP Peer Mohammed Hussain 143,093 44.90 −4.65
BJP Mohammad Sidiq Khan 3,918 1.23 −1.99
Majority 5,224 1.63 −24.29
Turnout 318,726 27.10 +12.06
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference gain from Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party Swing

General election 2004[edit | edit source]

General Election, 2004: Anantnag
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JKPDP Mehbooba Mufti 74,436 49.55
JKNC Mirza Mehboob Beg 35,498 23.63
CPI(M) Mohamad Yusuf Tarigami 18,466 12.29
BJP Sofi Mohf. Yousuf 4,836 3.22
Independent Imtiyaz Ahmad Rather 2,827 1.88
Independent Ab. Majeed Naikoo 2,760 1.84
Independent Mohd. Maqbool Dar 2,691 1.79
LJP Sanjay Saraf 1,595 1.06
Independent Gh. Rasool 1,586 1.06
AIFB Hamidullah Wani 1,504 1.00
Independent Gh. Mohi-ud-din Dar 1,278 0.85
RLD Mohd. Yousuf Qurashi 1,115 0.74
Samata Party Gh. Mohd. Tantary 864 0.58
Independent Ramesh Kumar Bhat 763 0.51
Majority 38,938 25.92
Turnout 150,219 15.04
Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party gain from Jammu & Kashmir National Conference Swing

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  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 1 November 2008.
  2. ↑ "Constituency-wise Detailed Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  3. ↑ "Constituencywise-All Candidates". ECI. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.

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