Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the six Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir in northern India. The constituency covers 20,230 square kilometres of mountainous Himalayan terrain, and is comparable to the size of Israel. It is composed of the districts of Kishtwar, Ramban, Kathua, Doda, and Udhampur. Udhampur constituency's population is over 2,400,000, and exceeds the population of New Mexico. The seat from 1967 to 1980 was held by Karan Singh, the former crown prince of Jammu and Kashmir. It is currently represented by Union minister Jitendra Singh since 2014 from the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Assembly segments Following is the list of Legislative Assembly Constituencies that fall under Udhampur Lok Sabha in Jammu and Kashmir after delimitation was undertaken in 2022.
AC No. AC Name DistrictMemberParty 48InderwalKishtwarPayare Lal Sharma49KishtwarShagun Parihar50Padder-NagseniSunil Kumar Sharma51BhadarwahDoda Daleep Singh Parihar52DodaMehraj Malik53Doda WestShakti Raj54RambanRambanArjun Singh Raju55BanihalSajad Shaheen59Udhampur WestUdhampur Pawan Kumar Gupta60Udhampur EastRanbir Singh Pathania61Chenani Balwant Singh Mankotia62Ramnagar (SC)Sunil Bhardwaj63BaniKathuaRameshwar Singh64BillawarSatish Kumar Sharma65Basohli Darshan Kumar66Jasrota Rajiv Jasrotia67Kathua (SC)Bharat Bhushan68Hiranagar Vijay Kumar
Members of Parliament Year WinnerParty1957Inderjit Malhotra 1967Karan Singh1968^G. S. Brigadier1971Karan Singh19771980Indian National Congress (U)1984Girdhari Lal DograIndian National Congress1989Dharam Paul1996Chaman Lal Gupta 199819992004Chaudhary Lal Singh 20092014Jitendra Singh Rana 20192024 ^ by poll
Election results 2024
2019
2014
2009
2004
See also Doda district Kathua district Kishtwar district Ramban district Udhampur district List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha
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