Constituency
69. Kathua
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1987
JK-KATHUA
INC 49.6%won by 19.6%BJP 30.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.3% to 19.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.6% of the vote between them, up from 73.6% — a tighter two-way 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
33,876
Margin
6,630
19.57%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1OM PARKASHIndian National Congress · INC16,80549.6%
- 2KULBHUSHAN KUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,17530.0%
- 3ROOP LALIndependent · IND3,2609.6%
- 4DHIAN CHANDIndependent · IND1,0813.2%
- 5SAGAR CHANDIndependent · IND7312.2%
- 6HANS RAJJharkhand People'S Party · JPP4821.4%
- 7NARDEV SINGHLKD · LKD4121.2%
- 8KARTAR CHANDIndependent · IND3010.9%
- 9ANCHAL SINGHIcs (Scs) · ICSSCS2400.7%
- 10BODH RAJIndependent · IND2360.7%
- 11BALDEV RAJIndependent · IND1530.5%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −11.8%
- INC share
- 52.5% → 49.6%
- BJP share
- 21.1% → 30.0%
- Turnout
- — → —