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66. Billawar

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Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 2002

JK-BILLAWAR

IND 47.8%won by 28.1%INC 19.6%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 28.1%.

  • IND vote shareIND went from 4.3% to 47.8% of the vote here (+43.5%).
  • Safe seatIndependent won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
  • Multi-cornered4 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
51,783
Margin
14,561
28.12%

Candidates

14 contested · winner IND
  1. 1MANOHAR LAL SHARMAIndependent · IND24,73647.8%
  2. 2BALBIR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC10,17519.6%
  3. 3KASHMIR SINGHIndependent · IND7,36914.2%
  4. 4SURAM SINGHJKN · JKN2,6805.2%
  5. 5GOVIND RAMJammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (Bhim) · JKNPP1,5262.9%
  6. 6HUKAM CHANDNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,1422.2%
  7. 7OMA DATT MANHASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9531.8%
  8. 8HARI CHAND JALMARIAIndependent · IND9071.8%
  9. 9SUDESH KUMARIndependent · IND7061.4%
  10. 10KULBUSHAN GUPTAShiv Sena · SHS4910.9%
  11. 11MOHINDER KUMARIndependent · IND4650.9%
  12. 12VIJAY RAJYA PATHANIASJPR · SJPR2680.5%
  13. 13RANJIT SINGHIndependent · IND2020.4%
  14. 14BISHEN DASSIndependent · IND1630.3%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INDflipped
IND–INC swing
+60.1%
IND share
4.3% → 47.8%
INC share
36.3% → 19.6%
Turnout
— → —
65. Kathua67. Hiranagar
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