Constituency
2. Kupwara
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 2002
JK-KUPWARA
JKN 43.2%won by 0.3%IND 42.9%
What changed here
DerivedJKN held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.6% to 0.3%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.2% of the vote between them, up from 69.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
44,483
Margin
132
0.30%
Candidates
9 contested · winner JKN- 1MIR SAIFULLAHJKN · JKN19,23343.2%
- 2GH.QADIR MIRIndependent · IND19,10142.9%
- 3CHOWDHARY SALAM-U-DINIndian National Congress · INC2,0854.7%
- 4MOHD ASHRAF LONELJNSP · LJNSP1,0622.4%
- 5NAZIR AHMAD KHANJKAL · JKAL9942.2%
- 6MOHD ASDULLAH BHATIndependent · IND5941.3%
- 7GH.AHMAD MIRIndependent · IND5941.3%
- 8MOHD YOUSF BEIGHIndependent · IND5621.3%
- 9AB.GANI DARIndependent · IND2580.6%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- JKN
- JKN–IND swing
- −29.1%
- JKN share
- 37.9% → 43.2%
- IND share
- 8.6% → 42.9%
- Turnout
- — → —