Constituency
24. Khan Sahib
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1983
JK-KHAN-SAHIB
JKN 58.1%won by 38.8%INC 19.3%
What changed here
DerivedJKN held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 55.9% to 38.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 19.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.4% between them, down from 92.0% — 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
23,648
Margin
9,180
38.82%
Candidates
4 contested · winner JKN- 1HAKIM MOHD. YASEENJKN · JKN13,73758.1%
- 2GH. AHMAD BARRAYIndian National Congress · INC4,55719.3%
- 3ALI MOHMAD SHAHNAZIndependent · IND2,90312.3%
- 4GH. QADIR WARJan Kalyan Party · JKP2,45110.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- JKN
- JKN–INC swing
- −35.1%
- JKN share
- 73.9% → 58.1%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 19.3%
- Turnout
- — → —