Kupwara Election Results 2014, J&K

About Kupwara Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency

Kupwara is a town in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir. The majority of the town is inhabited by Muslims with a small community of Sikhs. As of 2001 India census, the town had a population of 14,711 with a a literacy rate of 55.50%. The assembly constituency of Kupwara is a part of Baramulla parliamentary constituency. It had 80,536 registered voters in 2002. Mir Saifullah is the MLA from the constituency since 1996. He won the 2008 assembly elections by defeating Fayaz Ahmad Mir of JKPDP.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Kupwara Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2014	2	Kupwara	GEN	Bashir Ahmad Dar	M	JKPC	24754	Mir Mohd Fayaz	M	PDP	24603
2008	2	Kupwara	GEN	Mir Saifullah	M	JKN	16696	Fayaz Ahmad Mir	M	JKPDP	11514
2002	2	Kupwara	GEN	Mir Saifullah	M	JKN	19233	Gh.Qadir Mir	M	IND	19101
1996	2	Kupwara	GEN	Saifullah Mir	M	JKN	5766	Ch. Salam-Ud-Din	M	INC	4755
1987	4	Kupwara	GEN	Mushtaq Ahmed Lone	M	JKN	12585	Abdul Haq Khan	M	JKP	10806
1983	4	Kupwara	GEN	Peer Abdul Gani	M	JKN	13119	Abdul Haq	M	JKP	6046
1977	4	Kupwara	GEN	Assad Ullah Shah	M	JKN	13780	Ghulam Nabi	M	JNP	4834
1972	2	Kupwara	GEN	Ghulam Mohd. Shah	M	INC	10988	Mohd. Sultan Tantrey	M	IND	2331
1967	2	Kupwara	GEN	M. S. Tantray	M	INC		Uncontested