Constituency
56. Banihal
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 2002
JK-BANIHAL
IND 47.5%won by 27.8%JKN 19.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.4% to 27.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.2% between them, down from 79.9% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndependent won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
23,980
Margin
6,674
27.83%
Candidates
9 contested · winner IND- 1MOLVI ABDUL RASHIDIndependent · IND11,39347.5%
- 2MOHD. FAROOQ MIRJKN · JKN4,71919.7%
- 3MOHD AYUB KHANIndian National Congress · INC4,28917.9%
- 4MOHD YOUSUFBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,0124.2%
- 5ABDUL AZIZIndependent · IND7673.2%
- 6BAHAR AHMED RONYALJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP7373.1%
- 7PEER ABDUL MAJEEDJammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (Bhim) · JKNPP4892.0%
- 8GAZANFAR ALIIndependent · IND4601.9%
- 9JAVED AHMED SHAHIndependent · IND1140.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–JKN swing
- +14.4%
- IND share
- 46.7% → 47.5%
- JKN share
- 33.2% → 19.7%
- Turnout
- — → —