About Chhamb Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency
Chhamb is a city in Jammu district of Jammu and Kashmir. The assembly constituency of Chhamb belongs to Jammu parliamentary constituency. The constituency is reserved for the Scheduled Castes. The seat is the INC bastion. Tara Chand of INC won the 2008 assembly elections for the third consecutive time and is the present MLA. He defeated Chaman Lal of BJP. Chand bagged 25335 votes as against Lal's 22940 votes.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Chhamb Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Chhamb assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | AC No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Votes |
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| 2014 | 80 | Chhamb | (SC) | Dr. Kirshan Lal | M | BJP | 36033 | Tara Chand | M | INC | 21243 |
| 2008 | 80 | Chhamb | (SC) | Tara Chand | M | INC | 25335 | Chaman Lal | M | BJP | 22940 |
| 2002 | 80 | Chhamb | (SC) | Tara Chand | M | INC | 20630 | Chhaju Ram | M | JKN | 10296 |
| 1996 | 80 | Chhamb | (SC) | Tara Chand | M | INC | 12663 | Tej Ram | M | BJP | 12001 |
| 1987 | 66 | Chhamb | GEN | Madan Lal | M | INC | 15527 | Ram Nath | M | BJP | 10795 |
| 1983 | 66 | Chhamb | GEN | Madan Lal | M | INC | 14090 | Ram Nath | M | BJP | 4208 |
| 1977 | 66 | Chhamb | GEN | Ram Nath | M | IND | 9352 | Dewan Singh | M | INC | 4106 |
| 1972 | 70 | Chhamb | GEN | Diwakar Singh | M | INC | 12495 | Ram Nath | M | BJS | 5558 |
| 1967 | 70 | Chhamb | GEN | C. Ram | M | INC | 9267 | S. Singh | M | BJS | 8135 |
| 1962 | 2 | Chhamb | GEN | Chhaju Ram | M | NC | 10142 | Sahdev Singh | M | PP | 6401 |
Last Updated on Aug 15, 2021