Jammu East Election Results 2014, J&K

About Jammu East Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency

Jammu is the largest city of the Jammu district. It was founded by Raja Jambulochan. The city got its name from him only. It is the winter capital of the state. The assembly constituency of Jammu East belongs to Jammu parliamentary constituency. Ashok Kumar Khajuria who won the bypolls of 1998, came out victorious in the 2008 assembly elections on the BJP ticket. He defeated Narender Singh of INC. Khajuria received 15907 votes as against Singh's 5480 votes.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Jammu East Assembly Constituency

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

Year	AC No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2014	72	Jammu East	GEN	Rajesh Gupta	M	BJP	21776	Vikram Malhotra	M	INC	9082
2008	72	Jammu East	GEN	Ashok Kumar Khajuria	M	BJP	15907	Narender Singh	M	INC	5474
2002	72	Jammu East	GEN	Yogesh Kumar Sawhney	M	INC	11784	Ashok Kumar	M	BJP	8448
1998	By Polls	Jammu East	GEN	Ashok Kumar	M	AGP	13164	Ved Kumar	M	INC	6967
1996	72	Jammu East	GEN	Vaid Vishno Dutt	M	BJP	19047	Raman Bhalla	M	INC	6546
1987	62	Jammu East	GEN	Chaman Lal	M	BJP	13930	Ved Parkash	M	INC	10697
1983	62	Jammu East	GEN	Om Parkash	M	INC	14262	Chaman Lal	M	BJP	7619
1977	62	Jammu East	GEN	Ram Nath Bhalgotra	M	JNP	13179	Amrit Kumar Malhotra	M	INC	5141