Elections 98

State:	Jammu & Kashmir
Constituency:	Jammu
Total Votes Polled:	789529
Winner: BJP	Vaid Vishno Dutt	336472
Runner Up: JKN	Janak Raj Gupta	208571
Margin: 127901 (38%)

Elections 96

State:	Jammu & Kashmir
Constituency:	Jammu
Total Votes Polled:	581314
Winner: INC	Mangat Ram Sharma	194228
Runner Up: BJP	Vaid Vishno Dutt	147495
Margin: 46733 (8.24%)

The constituency has remained strictly with the Congress, and despite its claims of making inroads into the Hindu constituency, the BJP could manage only 26 % of the votes in the 1996 elections.