Hiranagar Election Results 2014, J&

About Hiranagar Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency

Hiranagar is a town in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. The town was founded by Raja Hari Singh. As of 2001 India census, it had a population of 7879. The assembly constituency of Hiranagar belongs to Udhampur parliamentary constituency. The constituency is reserved for the Scheduled Castes. The seat has always been occupied by either BJP or INC. No other party could manage to come to power. Durga Dass of BJP won the 2008 assembly elections and is the present MLA. He defeated his nearest rival, Prem Lal, an independent candidate. Dass secured 19730 votes as against Lal's 16993 votes.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Hiranagar Assembly Constituency

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

Year	AC No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2014	67	Hiranagar	(SC)	Kuldeep Raj	M	BJP	55399	Girdhari Lal Chalotra	M	INC	16115
2008	67	Hiranagar	(SC)	Durga Dass	M	BJP	19730	Prem Lal	M	IND	16993
2002	67	Hiranagar	(SC)	Girdhari Lal	M	INC	31402	Gopal Dass	M	BJP	13190
1996	67	Hiranagar	(SC)	Prem Lal	M	BJP	15922	Girdhari Lal	M	INC	13630
1987	70	Hiranagar	GEN	Baldev Singh	M	BJP	17088	Ram Das Dogra	M	INC	14580
1983	70	Hiranagar	GEN	Ram Dass	M	INC	13218	Baldev Singh	M	BJP	9788
1980	By Polls	Hiranagar	GEN	B.Singh	M	BJP	14846	R.Das	M	INC(I)	8857
1977	70	Hiranagar	GEN	Girdhari Lal Dogra	M	INC	13623	Rattan Lal	M	JNP	9912