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Constituency

79. Akhnoor

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Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1996

JK-AKHNOOR

JKN 21.0%won by 0.6%BJP 20.4%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to JKN (JKN), which now leads by 0.6%.

  • JKN vote shareJKN went from 0.0% to 21.0% of the vote here (+21.0%).
  • New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 20.4% — it polled just 1.6% in 1987.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 41.4% between them, down from 87.4% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
42,119
Margin
272
0.65%

Candidates

9 contested · winner JKN
  1. 1GOVIND RAMJKN · JKN8,85521.0%
  2. 2RAM SAROOPBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,58320.4%
  3. 3LAKHBIR SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,68418.2%
  4. 4DHARAM PALIndian National Congress · INC7,44317.7%
  5. 5KULDEEP SHARMAIndependent · IND6,40115.2%
  6. 6ASHOK KUMARIndependent · IND2,0584.9%
  7. 7SAT PALJanata Dal · JD7381.8%
  8. 8LAKHPAT RAIIndependent · IND1790.4%
  9. 9BANSI LALJharkhand People'S Party · JPP1780.4%

Since 1987

Derived
Winner then
IND
Winner now
JKNflipped
JKN–BJP swing
+2.3%
JKN share
0.0% → 21.0%
BJP share
1.6% → 20.4%
Turnout
— → —
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