Bharatiya Janta Party on Anantnag

State 1 · Lok Sabha · 12 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 0 OF 7 contested

BJP never finished second here

Strike rate

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 7 published candidatures

Best vote share10.40%in 1996

Worst vote share0.90%in 1999

Average vote share4.04% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1996

Last contested2019

Votes polled here71,573across all 7 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Bharatiya Janta Party vote share · a ringed point is a year they won this seat · a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 1977, 1980, 1984, 1989, 2024 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

7 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2019	Sofi Yousuf	10,225	8.20%	4	Lost · 4th
2014	Mushtaq Ahmad Malik	4,720	1.30%	4	Lost · 4th
2009	Mohd Sidiq Khan	3,918	1.20%	4	Lost · 4th
2004	Sofi Mohd. Yousuf	4,836	3.30%	4	Lost · 4th
1999	Showkat Hussain Yani	1,053	0.90%	9	Lost · 9th
1998	Showkat Hussain Wani	6,861	3.00%	4	Lost · 4th
1996	Sarla Taploo	39,960	10.40%	3	Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Jammu & Kashmir National Conference Indian National Congress Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party Janata Dal Independent Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Indian National Congress (U)Jammu And Kashmir Apni Party Democratic Progressive Azad Party J & K National Panthers Party Jammu & Kashmir Awami National Conference Jammu & Kashmir People Conference Jammu And Kashmir Awami League Rashtriya Janata Dal Bahujan Samaj Party Jammu & Kashmir Panthers Party Janata Dal (United)Lok Jan Shakti Party All India Indira Congress (SECULAR)Jharkhand Party All J & K Peoples Patriotic Front Ambedkar Samaj Party National Panthers Party Rajya Nojawan Shakti Party Samajwadi Party Aam Aadmi Party All India Forward Bloc Manvadhikar National Party National Loktantrik Party All Jammu And Kashmir Republican Party Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (Bhim)Samajwadi Janata Party (RASHTRIYA)Rashtriya Lok Dal All India Indira Congress (TIWARI)Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party Sirpanch Samaj Party Indian Justice Party Janata Dal (Secular)Samata Party Jammu And Kashmir Nationalist People's Front Pragatishil Samajwadi Party (Lohia)Garib Democratic Party Lok Shakti National Awami United Party

Provisional Candidate-wise results, Lok Sabha, Anantnag

Publisher: Election Commission of India
Retrieved: 2026-09-13
Computed: 2026-09-13 01:01 UTC

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