Constituency
69. Kathua
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1983
JK-KATHUA
INC 52.5%won by 31.3%BJP 21.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 31.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 40.4% to 52.5% of the vote here (+12.0%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 21.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.6% between them, down from 85.3% — 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
27,950
Margin
8,762
31.35%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SANJI RAMIndian National Congress · INC14,66752.5%
- 2BALDEV RAJBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,90521.1%
- 3DHAIN CHANDJKN · JKN4,64116.6%
- 4ANCHAL SINGHIndependent · IND1,3824.9%
- 5CHAMAN LALIndependent · IND1,0893.9%
- 6NARDEV SINGHLKD · LKD2661.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −9.1%
- INC share
- 40.4% → 52.5%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 21.1%
- Turnout
- — → —