Barmer (Lok Sabha constituency)
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Barmer is a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency of Rajasthan.
[edit] Members of Parliament
- 1957: Raghunath Singh Bahadur, Independent
- 1962: Tan Singh, Ram Rajya Parishad
- 1967: Amrit Nahata, Indian National Congress
- 1971: Amrit Nahata, Indian National Congress
- 1977: Tan Singh, Janata Party
- 1980: Virdhi Chander Jain, Indian National Congress
- 1984: Virdhi Chander Jain, Indian National Congress
- 1989: Kalyan Singh Kalvi, Janata Party
- 1991: Ram Niwas Mirdha, Indian National Congress
- 1996: Sona Ram Choudhary, Indian National Congress
- 1998: Sona Ram Choudhary, Indian National Congress
- 1999: Sona Ram Choudhary, Indian National Congress
- 2004: Manvendra Singh, Bharatiya Janata Party
[edit] Election results
| General Election, 2004: Barmer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| BJP | Manvendra Singh | 631,851 | 60.25 | +13.01 | |
| Congress | Sona Ram Choudhry | 359,963 | 34.32 | -16.79 | |
| Independent | Arjun Ram | 20,945 | 2.00 | ||
| Bahujan Samaj Party | Sharvan Kumar | 19,636 | 1.87 | +1.34 | |
| INLD | Hastimal Doshi | 16,753 | 1.60 | ||
| Majority | 271,888 | 25.93 | +29.80 | ||
| Turnout | 1,048,698 | 63.99 | +4.67 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | +13.01 | |||
