Constituency
53. Doda
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1996
JK-DODA
JKN 43.7%won by 17.1%JD 26.7%
What changed here
DerivedJKN held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 88.0% to 17.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 48.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJanata Dal (JD) finished second with 26.7% — it did not contest here in 1987.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.4% between them, down from 96.9% — 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
30,246
Margin
5,165
17.08%
Candidates
9 contested · winner JKN- 1MAULANA ATTAULLAH SUHARWARDYJKN · JKN13,23043.7%
- 2GHULAM QADIRJanata Dal · JD8,06526.7%
- 3KULBUSHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,15223.6%
- 4MUZAFFER HUSSAIN BAIGIndian National Congress · INC1,1853.9%
- 5SHASHI KUMARIndependent · IND3621.2%
- 6MOHD. BASHIR ZARGARIndependent · IND1530.5%
- 7NAZIR AHMED MIRIndependent · IND520.2%
- 8AMRITA BHATIndependent · IND260.1%
- 9AZAD HUSSAINIndependent · IND210.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- JKN
- JKN–JD swing
- −75.4%
- JKN share
- 92.5% → 43.7%
- JD share
- 0.0% → 26.7%
- Turnout
- — → —