Election
Constituency

27. Chari Sharif

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Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1987

JK-CHARI-SHARIF

JKN 82.9%won by 73.0%IND 10.0%

What changed here

Derived

JKN held the seat; the winning margin widened from 43.9% to 73.0%.

  • New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 10.0% — it polled just 0.6% in 1983.
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
30,680
Margin
22,385
72.96%

Candidates

6 contested · winner JKN
  1. 1ABDUL RAHIM RATHERJKN · JKN25,44782.9%
  2. 2ABDUL RASHIDIndependent · IND3,06210.0%
  3. 3GHULAM MOHMADJan Kalyan Party · JKP1,7875.8%
  4. 4GHULAM QADIRIndependent · IND1840.6%
  5. 5ALI MOHMAD GANIIndependent · IND1310.4%
  6. 6FAIZ AHMADIndependent · IND690.2%

Since 1983

Derived
Winner then
JKN
Winner now
JKN
JKN–IND swing
+3.8%
JKN share
69.8% → 82.9%
IND share
0.6% → 10.0%
Turnout
— → —
26. Chadura28. Pulwama
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