Constituency
50. Banihal
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1983
JK-BANIHAL
JKN 63.7%won by 34.8%INC 28.9%
What changed here
DerivedJKN held the seat; the winning margin widened from 29.0% to 34.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.5% of the vote between them, up from 74.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
23,630
Margin
8,225
34.81%
Candidates
5 contested · winner JKN- 1ABDUL RASHIDJKN · JKN15,04663.7%
- 2SONA ULLAHIndian National Congress · INC6,82128.9%
- 3ABDUL SAMADIndependent · IND1,2465.3%
- 4ABDUL HAMEEDIndependent · IND3281.4%
- 5ABDUL LATEEFIndependent · IND1890.8%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- JKN
- JKN–INC swing
- +5.8%
- JKN share
- 51.8% → 63.7%
- INC share
- 22.9% → 28.9%
- Turnout
- — → —