Constituency
67. Hiranagar
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1996
JK-HIRANAGAR
BJP 35.9%won by 5.2%INC 30.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.6% to 5.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.7% between them, down from 83.7% — 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
44,290
Margin
2,292
5.17%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1PREM LALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,92235.9%
- 2GIRDHARI LALIndian National Congress · INC13,63030.8%
- 3GOPAL DASSIndependent · IND6,87815.5%
- 4HANS RAJBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,64112.7%
- 5NAND LALJKN · JKN1,9204.3%
- 6ASHOK KUMARJharkhand People'S Party · JPP2990.7%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −1.5%
- BJP share
- 45.2% → 35.9%
- INC share
- 38.5% → 30.8%
- Turnout
- — → —