Basohli Election Results 2014, J&K

About Basohli Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency

Basohli is a town in Kathua district of Jammu & Kashmir. The town is situated on the bank of Ravi river. The place is famous for its paintings called Basohli paintings. At the 2001 India census, it had a population of 5865. The assembly constituency of Basohli falls under Udhampur parliamentary constituency. The seat is the INC bastion. But Jagdish Raj Sapolia of BJP won the 2008 assembly elections and is the current MLA. He defeated Davinder Singh of JKNC. Sapolia secured 16651 votes as against Singh's 13770 votes.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Basohli Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Basohli assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	AC No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2014	64	Basohli	GEN	Lal Singh	M	BJP	29808	Davinder Singh	M	JKNC	12007
2008	64	Basohli	GEN	Jagdish Raj Sapolia	M	BJP	16651	Davinder Singh	M	JKN	13770
2004	By Polls	Basohli	GEN	Kanta Andotra	F	INC	18759	Jagdish Raj Spolia	M	BJP	14980
2002	64	Basohli	GEN	Lal Singh	M	INC	18916	Jagdish Raj Sapolia	M	BJP	15248
1996	64	Basohli	GEN	Lal Singh	M	AIIC(T)	12140	Jagdish Raj S/O Tula Ram	M	INC	7912
1987	67	Basohli	(SC)	Jagdish Rajspolia	M	INC	11322	Lal Chand	M	IND	10054
1983	67	Basohli	GEN	Mangat Ram	M	INC	14019	Darshan Kumar Sharma	M	JKN	8939
1977	67	Basohli	GEN	Mangat Ram	M	INC	4829	Uttam Chand	M	IND	3885
1972	56	Basohli	GEN	Mangat Ram	M	INC	9482	Baldev Singh	M	BJS	5871
1967	56	Basohli	GEN	M. Ram	M	INC	7805	U. Chand	M	BJS	4073
1962	9	Basohli	GEN	Mahant Ram Sharma	M	NC	7394	Uttam Chand	M	PP	4459