Constituency
80. Chhamb
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 2002
JK-CHHAMB
INC 46.3%won by 23.2%JKN 23.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.8% to 23.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to JKN (JKN).
- 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
44,562
Margin
10,334
23.19%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1TARA CHANDIndian National Congress · INC20,63046.3%
- 2CHHAJU RAMJKN · JKN10,29623.1%
- 3CHAMAN LALIndependent · IND9,28820.8%
- 4SUBASH CHANDERJammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (Bhim) · JKNPP1,9164.3%
- 5TEJ RAMIndependent · IND9952.2%
- 6SHAM LALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9782.2%
- 7HANS RAJIndependent · IND4591.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JKN swing
- +14.4%
- INC share
- 35.1% → 46.3%
- JKN share
- 26.3% → 23.1%
- Turnout
- — → —