Constituency
4. Handwara
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1996
JK-HANDWARA
JKN 66.7%won by 48.3%INC 18.4%
What changed here
DerivedJKN held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.1% to 48.3%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 18.4% — it did not contest here in 1987.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.1% between them, down from 90.8% — 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
16,394
Margin
7,920
48.31%
Candidates
4 contested · winner JKN- 1MOHD. RAMZAN CHOWDRYJKN · JKN10,93766.7%
- 2ALI MOHD. DARIndian National Congress · INC3,01718.4%
- 3GULAM NABI PEERJanata Dal · JD1,4678.9%
- 4TAJA BEGUMJharkhand People'S Party · JPP9735.9%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- JKN
- JKN–INC swing
- +1.4%
- JKN share
- 46.9% → 66.7%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 18.4%
- Turnout
- — → —