Constituency
1. Karnah
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1996
JK-KARNAH
JKN 62.2%won by 37.2%JD 25.0%
What changed here
DerivedJKN held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.6% to 37.2%.
- New challengerJanata Dal (JD) finished second with 25.0% — it did not contest here in 1987.
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
17,269
Margin
6,428
37.22%
Candidates
3 contested · winner JKN- 1KAFEEL-U-REHMANJKN · JKN10,73962.2%
- 2AB. RAHMAN BADANAJanata Dal · JD4,31125.0%
- 3MOHD. SAKANDER KHANIndian National Congress · INC2,21912.8%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- JKN
- JKN–JD swing
- −13.7%
- JKN share
- 50.9% → 62.2%
- JD share
- 0.0% → 25.0%
- Turnout
- — → —