Constituency
33. Pulwama
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1996
JK-PULWAMA
JKN 52.5%won by 20.2%JD 32.3%
What changed here
DerivedJKN held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.4% to 20.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJanata Dal (JD) finished second with 32.3% — it did not contest here in 1987.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.7% between them, down from 97.7% — 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
22,933
Margin
4,632
20.20%
Candidates
4 contested · winner JKN- 1BASHIR AHMAD NENGROOJKN · JKN12,03052.5%
- 2SYED BASHIR AHMADJanata Dal · JD7,39832.3%
- 3AB. GANI BHATIndian National Congress · INC2,48310.8%
- 4MOHD. YOUSUF WANIJKAL · JKAL1,0224.5%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- JKN
- JKN–JD swing
- −39.4%
- JKN share
- 59.6% → 52.5%
- JD share
- 0.0% → 32.3%
- Turnout
- — → —