Constituency
31. Wachi
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1983
JK-WACHI
JKN 56.2%won by 34.0%INC 22.1%
What changed here
DerivedJKN held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 54.3% to 34.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Safe seatJKN won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
29,045
Margin
9,884
34.03%
Candidates
6 contested · winner JKN- 1GHULAM QADIRWANIJKN · JKN16,31456.2%
- 2GHULAM QADIRIndian National Congress · INC6,43022.1%
- 3ALI MOHD.JMI · JMI5,09217.5%
- 4GHULAM NABI SHAIDAIndependent · IND4521.6%
- 5ABDUL MAJIDIndependent · IND4311.5%
- 6ABDUL AHADJan Kalyan Party · JKP3261.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- JKN
- JKN–INC swing
- −20.3%
- JKN share
- 67.0% → 56.2%
- INC share
- 12.7% → 22.1%
- Turnout
- — → —