Constituency
86. Mendhar
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 1996
JK-MENDHAR
JKN 37.5%won by 5.5%IND 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedJKN held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.0% to 5.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.4% between them, down from 94.9% — 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
44,613
Margin
2,460
5.51%
Candidates
7 contested · winner JKN- 1NISAR AHMED KHANJKN · JKN16,71637.5%
- 2JAVED AHMED RANAIndependent · IND14,25632.0%
- 3SARDAR RAFIQ HUSSAIN KHANJanata Dal · JD5,64512.7%
- 4CH. LAL MOHD. SABIRIndian National Congress · INC4,94611.1%
- 5CH. MOHD. SADEEQ NAZBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,5075.6%
- 6MOHD. RASHIDBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4010.9%
- 7CH. MAHMOOD AHMEDIndependent · IND1420.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- JKN
- JKN–IND swing
- −4.5%
- JKN share
- 52.5% → 37.5%
- IND share
- 42.5% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- — → —