Constituency
41. Devsar
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1996
JK-DEVSAR
JKN 35.3%won by 8.0%INC 27.3%
What changed here
DerivedJKN held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 7.7% to 8.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 27.3% — it did not contest here in 1987.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.5% between them, down from 93.3% — 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
24,850
Margin
1,986
7.99%
Candidates
4 contested · winner JKN- 1PEERZADA GHULAM AHMADJKN · JKN8,76335.3%
- 2MOHD. YOUSUFIndian National Congress · INC6,77727.3%
- 3ABDUL HAMID RATHERJKAL · JKAL5,50722.2%
- 4GHULAM NABI SHAHJanata Dal · JD3,80315.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- JKN
- JKN–INC swing
- −42.5%
- JKN share
- 50.5% → 35.3%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 27.3%
- Turnout
- — → —