Constituency
61. Jammu West
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1983
JK-JAMMU-WEST
INC 66.4%won by 49.1%BJP 17.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 49.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.0% to 66.4% of the vote here (+28.4%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 17.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.6% between them, down from 92.7% — 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
25,117
Margin
12,341
49.13%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1RANGIL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC16,67266.4%
- 2TILAK RAJ SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,33117.2%
- 3UDHEY CHANDIndependent · IND1,8247.3%
- 4SUDERSHAN LAL MAHAJANJKN · JKN1,2104.8%
- 5OM PARKASH S/O SH. BELI RAMIndependent · IND3091.2%
- 6OM PARKASH S/O SH. DHANI RAMIndependent · IND2641.1%
- 7JATINDER PAULIndependent · IND2250.9%
- 8SUBASH CHANDER GUPTAIndependent · IND1110.4%
- 9RANJIT SINGHIndependent · IND590.2%
- 10KULDEEP GUPTAIndependent · IND490.2%
- 11SHAM LALIndependent · IND330.1%
- 12JAG MOHAN KHANAIndependent · IND160.1%
- 13ANOOP KAULIndependent · IND140.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +11.2%
- INC share
- 38.0% → 66.4%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 17.2%
- Turnout
- — → —