Constituency
50. Banihal
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1987
JK-BANIHAL
JKN 57.9%won by 32.8%IND 25.1%
What changed here
DerivedJKN held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 34.8% to 32.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.1% between them, down from 92.5% — 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
24,083
Margin
7,893
32.77%
Candidates
6 contested · winner JKN- 1MOLVI ABDUL RASHIDJKN · JKN13,94957.9%
- 2MOHD. AKHTER NIZAMIndependent · IND6,05625.1%
- 3ABDUL AHAD MALIKIndependent · IND2,74311.4%
- 4MOHD. ALIIndependent · IND6982.9%
- 5ABDUL MAJIDIndependent · IND4691.9%
- 6KHADIM HUSSAINJanata Party · JNP1680.7%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- JKN
- JKN–IND swing
- −25.6%
- JKN share
- 63.7% → 57.9%
- IND share
- 5.3% → 25.1%
- Turnout
- — → —