Constituency
4. Kupwara
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1983
JK-KUPWARA
JKN 48.3%won by 26.0%JKP 22.2%
What changed here
DerivedJKN held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.6% to 26.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJan Kalyan Party (JKP) finished second with 22.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.5% between them, down from 76.2% — 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
27,176
Margin
7,073
26.03%
Candidates
7 contested · winner JKN- 1PEER ABDUL GANIJKN · JKN13,11948.3%
- 2ABDUL HAQJan Kalyan Party · JKP6,04622.2%
- 3MOHD. ASHRAF KHANJMI · JMI3,71713.7%
- 4ABDUL HAMID GANAIIndependent · IND2,0617.6%
- 5GHULAM NABI SHAHIndian National Congress · INC1,8216.7%
- 6QAMAR-U-DINIndependent · IND2170.8%
- 7ABDUL JABBARIndependent · IND1950.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- JKN
- JKN–JKP swing
- −30.4%
- JKN share
- 56.4% → 48.3%
- JKP share
- 0.0% → 22.2%
- Turnout
- — → —