Constituency
80. Chhamb
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1996
JK-CHHAMB
INC 35.1%won by 1.8%BJP 33.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.0% to 1.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.5% between them, down from 89.0% — 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
36,030
Margin
662
1.84%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1TARA CHANDIndian National Congress · INC12,66335.1%
- 2TEJ RAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,00133.3%
- 3GANGA DATTJKN · JKN9,48526.3%
- 4HARNAM DASSIndependent · IND1,0362.9%
- 5SHAM LALJanata Dal · JD8452.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −14.2%
- INC share
- 52.5% → 35.1%
- BJP share
- 36.5% → 33.3%
- Turnout
- — → —