Constituency
6. Sonawari
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1983
JK-SONAWARI
JKN 58.3%won by 37.7%INC 20.6%
What changed here
DerivedJKN held the seat; the winning margin widened from 36.0% to 37.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 20.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.9% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
33,009
Margin
12,432
37.66%
Candidates
4 contested · winner JKN- 1GH. RASOOL BAHARJKN · JKN19,24558.3%
- 2ABDUL AZIZ BARRAYIndian National Congress · INC6,81320.6%
- 3MOHD. AKBAR LONEJan Kalyan Party · JKP5,47016.6%
- 4ALI MOHD. GANAYEEJMI · JMI1,4814.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- JKN
- JKN–INC swing
- −30.3%
- JKN share
- 68.0% → 58.3%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 20.6%
- Turnout
- — → —