Udhampur | |
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Constituency details | |
Country | India |
State | Jammu and Kashmir |
District | Udhampur |
LS constituency | Udhampur |
Established | 1962 |
Udhampur is one of the 87 constituencies in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir a north state of India. Udhampur is also part of Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency. [1]
Year | Member | Party | |
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2014 | Pawan Kumar Gupta [6] | Independent | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Pawan Kumar Gupta | 36,226 | 42.57 | ||
JKNPP | Balwant Singh Mankotia | 21,576 | 25.36 | ||
BJP | Pawan Khajuria | 20,174 | 23.71 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 653 | 0.77 | ||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 85,091 | 79.44 | |||
Registered electors | 107,118 | ||||
Independent gain from JKNPP | Swing |
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