Constituency
38. Kulgam
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 2002
JK-KULGAM
CPM 51.7%won by 30.3%JKN 21.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 51.6% to 30.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJKN (JKN) finished second with 21.4% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.2% between them, down from 87.7% — 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
16,138
Margin
4,885
30.27%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1MOHD. YOUSF TARIGAMICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8,34651.7%
- 2GH. NABI DARJKN · JKN3,46121.4%
- 3MOHD. YOUSF LONEJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP3,01118.7%
- 4AB. RASHID LONERashtriya Janata Dal · RJD5033.1%
- 5MANZOOR AHMEDBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4933.1%
- 6RAMESH KUMAR BHATIndependent · IND3242.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–JKN swing
- −39.4%
- CPM share
- 69.7% → 51.7%
- JKN share
- 0.0% → 21.4%
- Turnout
- — → —