| Sonawari | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 14 for the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| State | Jammu and Kashmir |
| District | Bandipora |
| LS constituency | Baramulla |
| Established | 1967 |
| Total electors | 99,490 (2014)[1] |
Sonawari Assembly constituency is located in Bandipura district of Jammu and Kashmir. Sonawari assembly constituency is part of the Baramulla parliamentary area. There were 99,490 voters in the Sonawari constituency in 2014.[1] It has been represented by JKNC candidate Mohammad Akbar Lone since 2002. In the 2014 assembly elections, Lone won the election from the constituency by defeating PDP candidate Yasser Rashy by 406 votes.[2]
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Mohammad Akbar Lone[1] | Jammu & Kashmir National Conference | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JKNC | Mohammad Akbar Lone | 32,567 | |||
| JKPDP | Yasir Reshi | 32161 | |||
| INC | Imtiyaz Ahmad Parray | 1174 | |||
| JKPC | Qawamudin Sheikh | ||||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1075 | |||
| Majority | 406 | ||||
| Turnout | 80363 | ||||
| Registered electors | 99490 | ||||
| Year | Winner | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Party | Votes | Margin |
| 2008 | Mohd. Akbar Lone | JKNC | 20108 | Abid Hussain Ansari | IND | 7951 | 12157 |
| 2002 | Mohd. Akbar Lone | JKNC | 25687 | Mohd. Yousuf Parray | JKAL | 12929 | 12758 |
| 1996 | Mohd. Yousuf Parray | JKAL | 15601 | Mohd. Akbar Lone | JKN | 14875 | 726 |
| 1987 | Mohmad Ud Din Kochey | JKNC | 26819 | Abdul Khaliq Haneef | IND | 11146 | 15673 |
| 1983 | Gh. Rasool Bahar | JKNC | 19245 | Abdul Aziz Barray | INC | 6813 | 12432 |
| 1977 | Abdul Aziz Parry | JKNC | 21074 | Mohd. Akbar Lone | JNP | 9923 | 11151 |
| 1972 | Abdul Aziz Parray | INC | 25121 | Abdul Khaliq Parray | JMI | 2819 | 22302 |
| 1967 | A. A. Parey | INC | 13563 | G. Rather | JKN | 7281 | 6282 |