Constituency
62. Ramnagar
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1996
JK-RAMNAGAR
JPP 24.6%won by 1.6%BSP 22.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Jharkhand People'S Party (JPP), which now leads by 1.6%.
- JPP vote shareJPP went from 28.0% to 24.6% of the vote here (−3.4%).
- New challengerBahujan Samaj Party (BSP) finished second with 22.9% — it did not contest here in 1987.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 47.5% between them, down from 86.7% — 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
36,840
Margin
601
1.63%
Candidates
8 contested · winner JPP- 1HARSH DEV SINGHJharkhand People'S Party · JPP9,04924.6%
- 2KHALIL-ALLAHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8,44822.9%
- 3BHUPINDER SINGHIndian National Congress · INC8,07121.9%
- 4MOHAN LALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,23819.6%
- 5DEV DATTJanata Dal · JD2,7837.6%
- 6SUBHASH CHANDERIndependent · IND8212.2%
- 7NIRMAL CHANDERJKAL · JKAL2400.7%
- 8SUKHDEV SINGHIndependent · IND1900.5%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JPPflipped
- JPP–BSP swing
- −26.3%
- JPP share
- 28.0% → 24.6%
- BSP share
- 0.0% → 22.9%
- Turnout
- — → —