Constituency
73. Jammu West
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1996
JK-JAMMU-WEST
BJP 45.7%won by 25.2%INC 20.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 25.2%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 30.6% to 45.7% of the vote here (+15.0%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.1% between them, down from 79.6% — 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
49,283
Margin
12,438
25.24%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1HANS RAJBharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,50645.7%
- 2YOGESH SAWHNEYIndian National Congress · INC10,06820.4%
- 3PAWAN KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,76713.7%
- 4CHANDER MOHANJKN · JKN6,27612.7%
- 5AYOUDHIA KUMARJanata Dal · JD2,1234.3%
- 6TILAK RAJ MAHAJANIndependent · IND4801.0%
- 7UDHAY CHANDJharkhand People'S Party · JPP4290.9%
- 8SUNIL KUMARIndependent · IND3150.6%
- 9DEEP KUMAR MALIAJKAL · JKAL2620.5%
- 10SATISH POONCHIIndependent · IND570.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +43.6%
- BJP share
- 30.6% → 45.7%
- INC share
- 49.0% → 20.4%
- Turnout
- — → —