Jammu and Kashmir | ||||||
Constituency | Current MP | BJP Candidate Names | INC Candidate Names | PDP Candidate Names | JKNC Candidate Names | IND Candidate Names |
Baramulla | Muzaffar Hussain Baig (PDP) | M M War | Haji Farooq Mir | Abdul Kauam Vani | Mohammad Akbar lone (Winner) | |
Jammu | Jugal Kishore (BJP) | Jugal Kishore Sharma (Winner) | Raman Bhalla | |||
Srinagar | Farooq Abdullah (JKNC) | Khalid Jahangir | Supporting JKNC | Aga Syed mohseen | Farooq Abdullah (Winner) | |
Udhampur | Jitendra Singh (BJP) | Dr. Jitendra Singh (Winner) | Vikramaditya Singh | |||
Ladakh | Vacant | Jamyang Tsering Namgyal | Rigzin Spalbar | Sajjad Hussain (Winner) | ||
Anantnag | Vacant | Sofi Youssaf | Gulam Ahmed Mir | Mehbooba Mufti | Hasnain Masoodi (Winner) |
In the state of Jammu & Kashmir, while BJP has won in 2 constituencies while JKNC managed to win in three with one constituency going to IND candidate Sajjad Hussain. In fact, Ladakh was the only constituency where IND put up a candidate.
Jammu and Kashmir has 6 Lok Sabha constituencies in total. Baramulla and Jammu went for polling during the first phase of 2019 Lok Sabha elections on April 11. Srinagar and Udhampur voted during the second phase of elections on April 18. The polling in Ladakh was conducted on May 6. Since it has been declared as a highly sensitive constituency, the single seat of Anantnag went for polling in three phases on April 23, 29 and May 6, which was a record setting news in the history of Indian elections. For three years, the constituency of Anantnag remained vacant. Now the key contesting candidates working out their luck from Anantnag seat are Sofi Youssaf of BJP, Ghulam Ahmed Mir of Congress, Hasnain Masoodi of National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti of PDP.
In 2014 general elections, Mehbooba Mufti secured a thumping victory over Mirza Mehboob Beg of the National Conference. Mehbooba Mufti is contesting from Anantnag seat for the third time now. During 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the results favored two parties equally by giving three seats each from the state to BJP and PDP (People’s Democratic Party). From Ladakh seat, BJP’s Thupstan Chhewang won in 2014 elections with a thin margin of just 36 votes.