Constituency
5. Bandipora
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1983
JK-BANDIPORA
JKN 53.3%won by 31.8%JKP 21.6%
What changed here
DerivedJKN held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 61.9% to 31.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJan Kalyan Party (JKP) finished second with 21.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.9% between them, down from 80.0% — 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
34,239
Margin
10,873
31.76%
Candidates
5 contested · winner JKN- 1MOHD. KHALILJKN · JKN18,25353.3%
- 2NIZAMUDIN BHATJan Kalyan Party · JKP7,38021.6%
- 3HABIBULLAH BHATIndian National Congress · INC5,24515.3%
- 4GH. QADIR WANIJMI · JMI2,8298.3%
- 5MANZOOR AHMAD KHANIndependent · IND5321.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- JKN
- JKN–JKP swing
- −39.2%
- JKN share
- 70.9% → 53.3%
- JKP share
- 0.0% → 21.6%
- Turnout
- — → —