Constituency
70. Hiranagar
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1987
JK-HIRANAGAR
BJP 45.2%won by 6.6%INC 38.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 6.6%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 29.6% to 45.2% of the vote here (+15.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.7% of the vote between them, up from 69.5% — 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
37,833
Margin
2,508
6.63%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1BALDEV SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,08845.2%
- 2RAM DAS DOGRAIndian National Congress · INC14,58038.5%
- 3NEK RAMIndependent · IND3,99910.6%
- 4VIJAYIndependent · IND6611.7%
- 5GANESH DASSJanata Party · JNP4891.3%
- 6BALWANT RAI SHARMAJharkhand People'S Party · JPP3340.9%
- 7LAKSHMI KANTALIAS SETHILKD · LKD2980.8%
- 8NASIB CHANDIndependent · IND2100.6%
- 9HEM RAJ THAPAIndependent · IND1740.5%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +17.0%
- BJP share
- 29.6% → 45.2%
- INC share
- 39.9% → 38.5%
- Turnout
- — → —