In
2009 Election Results the UPA won around 261 out of 543 seats, and in the second position was NDA with 158 seats, while 23 seats were won by Left parties.
In
2014 Election Results the BJP won 282 seats out of 543 seats. This took the NDA tally to 336 seats out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. INC could only manage to win 44 seats and stayed in the second position while AIADMK party from Tamil Nadu came third with 37 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.
In 2019, the BJP is set to return to power at the Centre after a sweeping win in the
2019 Lok Sabha election , armed with a bigger mandate than in the 2014 General Election. The party - led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah duo has secured 303 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the Congress, the main Opposition party, managed to increase its vote share from 2014 only by a handful of votes, with a final tally of 52 seats. There will be no Leader of Opposition in the upcoming Lower House for a second consecutive term.
Spread over the three districts of Budgam, Ganderbal and Srinagar is the Parliamentary constituency of Srinagar in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
It is one of the six parliamentary seats that belong to this northern Indian state. 1,106,729 is the total electorate count in the Srinagar Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 2). Out of these 576,035 number of electorates are males and the remaining 530,694 are belong to the female category as the Election commission of India 2009 reports suggest. This constituency has played a key role in national politics as it houses the capital of the state and is the seat of power, besides being highly volatile politically. A stronghold of the political party of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, Srinagar comprises fifteen assembly segments. It was from the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency that the present Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, was elected the Member of Parliament three consecutive times (1998-2004). After him, the seat was won by his father, Farooq Abdullah.
Quick facts for Srinagar |
Assembly Constituencies | 15 |
Ruling Party | JKPDP
|
MP | Tariq Hameed Karra |
Electorals 2017 | Male | Female | Total |
No. of Electorals | 576035 | 530694 | 1106729 |
Polling stations | 1483 |
List of winner/current and runner up MPs Srinagar Parliamentary Constituency.
The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Srinagar parliamentary constituency of all the years from the starting until now . It also shows the number of votes secured by each MP and the name of the political party they belong to. The current sitting member of parliament of the Srinagar constituency is Tariq Hameed Karra of PDP.
Year | PC No. | PC Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Vote | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Vote |
2017 | 2 | Srinagar | GEN | Tariq Hameed Karra | M | PDP | 157923 | Farooq Abdullah | M | JKNPP | 115643 |
2009 | 2 | Srinagar | GEN | Abdullah,Dr. Farooq | M | JKN | 147035 | Iftikhar Hussain Ansari | M | JKPDP | 116793 |
2004 | 2 | Srinagar | GEN | Omar Abdullah | M | JKN | 98422 | Advocate Ghulam Nabi Lone | M | JKPDP | 75263 |
1999 | 2 | Srinagar | GEN | Omer Abdullah | M | JKN | 55542 | Mebooba Mufti | M | IND | 18683 |
1998 | 2 | Srinagar | GEN | Omar Abdullah | M | JKN | 144609 | Aga Syed Mohdi | M | INC | 73770 |
1996 | 2 | Srinagar | GEN | Ghulam Mohammad Mir | M | INC | 55503 | Farooq Ahmad Anderabi | M | JD | 53904 |
1989 | 2 | Srinagar | GEN | Mohammad Shafi Bhat | M | JKN | | Uncontested | | | |
1984 | 2 | Srinagar | GEN | Abdul Rashid Kabuli | M | JKN | 367249 | Muzaffer Ahmed Shah | M | IND | 80972 |
1980 | 2 | Srinagar | GEN | Farooq Abdullah | M | JKN | | Uncontested | | | |
1977 | 2 | Srinagar | GEN | Akbar Jahan Begam | M | JKN | 210072 | Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari | M | IND | 87431 |
1971 | 2 | Srinagar | GEN | Shamim Ahmad Shamim | M | IND | 128948 | Bakhshi Gulam Mohd | M | INC | 71140 |
1967 | 2 | Srinagar | GEN | B.G. Mohamad | M | JKN | 59415 | A.M. Tariq | M | INC | 50179 |
List of Assembly Constituencies in Srinagar Parliamentary Constituency
The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Srinagar parliamentary constituency.
Names of Assembly Constituencies |
Kangan | Eidgah | Sonawar |
Ganderbal | Khaniyar | Batamaloo |
Hazratbal | Habba Kadal | Chadoora |
Zadibal | Amira Kadal | Badgam |
Beerwah | Khan Saheb | Chrar Sharief |