Sonawar Election Results 2014, J&K

About Sonawar Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency

Sonawar, one of the 87 assembly constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir is a part of Srinagar parliamentary constituency. The seat is a JKNC bastion. Farooq Abdullah won the 2008 assembly elections. He defetaed Ghulam Qadir Pardesi of PDP with just a margin of 94 votes. But when Abdullah was elected as the member of Rajya Sabha, he resigned from the constituency. As a result bypolls were held in the year 2009. Md.Yasin Shah of JKNC won the bypolls by defeating Md. Ashraf Mir of PDP. Shah received 9306 votes as against Mir's 9256 votes.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Sonawar Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2009	By Polls	Sonawar	GEN	Md.Yasin Shah	M	JKNC	9306	Md. Ashraf Mir	M	JKPDP	9256
2014	24	Sonawar	GEN	Mohammad Ashraf Mir	M	PDP	14283	Omar Abdullah	M	JKNC	9500
2008	24	Sonawar	GEN	Farooq Abdullah	M	JKN	7018	Sheikh Ghulam Qadir Pardesi	M	JKPDP	6924
2002	24	Sonawar	GEN	Mohd. Yaseen Shah	M	JKN	3445	Gh. Hussain Wani	M	PDP	1740
1996	24	Sonawar	GEN	Ghulam Mohd. Bawan	M	JKN	9873	Bashir Ahmad Kuthoo	M	JD	3137