Constituency
72. Jammu East
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1996
JK-JAMMU-EAST
BJP 58.7%won by 38.5%INC 20.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.5% to 38.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.8% between them, down from 87.5% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
32,466
Margin
12,501
38.50%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1VAID VISHNO DUTTBharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,04758.7%
- 2RAMAN BHALLAIndian National Congress · INC6,54620.2%
- 3RATTAN LALJKN · JKN3,68811.4%
- 4ELYAS GILLBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,5154.7%
- 5ANIL KUMAR GUPTAIndependent · IND1,0223.1%
- 6RATTAN LAL SARAFJanata Dal · JD1970.6%
- 7HUSSAIN AHMED SIDDIQIIndependent · IND1950.6%
- 8WILLIAM GILLIndependent · IND1290.4%
- 9MANOHAR SINGHJharkhand People'S Party · JPP720.2%
- 10SANJEEV GUPTAIndependent · IND550.2%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +27.0%
- BJP share
- 49.5% → 58.7%
- INC share
- 38.0% → 20.2%
- Turnout
- — → —