Constituency
56. Samba
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1977
JK-SAMBA
IND 25.6%won by 6.5%INC 19.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 6.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1967 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 0.0% to 25.6% of the vote here (+25.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 44.7% between them, down from 75.4% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
24,792
Margin
1,621
6.54%
Candidates
14 contested · winner IND- 1DHAYAN SINGHIndependent · IND6,34925.6%
- 2HARBANS SINGHIndian National Congress · INC4,72819.1%
- 3RAWEL SINGHJKN · JKN3,45313.9%
- 4GULCHAIN SINGHJanata Party · JNP3,13112.6%
- 5PURAN SINGHIndependent · IND1,5646.3%
- 6GIANCHANDIndependent · IND1,3705.5%
- 7RAJINDER NATHIndependent · IND1,3005.2%
- 8BABU NATHIndependent · IND1,1284.5%
- 9MANGAT RAMIndependent · IND7252.9%
- 10SWARAN SINGHIndependent · IND4611.9%
- 11HARSANT SINGHIndependent · IND1860.8%
- 12SUKH DEV SINGHIndependent · IND1840.7%
- 13SUNDER LALIndependent · IND1270.5%
- 14KUNDIP LALIndependent · IND860.3%
Since 1967
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1967 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +53.1%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 25.6%
- INC share
- 46.6% → 19.1%
- Turnout
- — → —