Constituency
8. Gulmarg
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1987
JK-GULMARG
JKN 62.4%won by 28.3%IND 34.1%
What changed here
DerivedJKN held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 42.8% to 28.3%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 34.1% — it polled just 1.6% in 1983.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.4% of the vote between them, up from 82.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
30,885
Margin
8,734
28.28%
Candidates
4 contested · winner JKN- 1SHEIKH MUSTAFFA KAMALJKN · JKN19,26062.4%
- 2GHULAM HASSAN MIRIndependent · IND10,52634.1%
- 3SYED NISAR AHMAD NISARJan Kalyan Party · JKP9673.1%
- 4GHULAM AHMAD GANAEIIndependent · IND1320.4%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- JKN
- JKN–IND swing
- −32.7%
- JKN share
- 62.5% → 62.4%
- IND share
- 1.6% → 34.1%
- Turnout
- — → —