Constituency
82. Darhal
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 2002
JK-DARHAL
IND 28.1%won by 0.5%JKN 27.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: JKN (JKN) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 0.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.7% between them, down from 67.7% — the field split more ways.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 217 votes (0.52%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered5 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
42,115
Margin
217
0.52%
Candidates
9 contested · winner IND- 1PURAN SINGHIndependent · IND11,83228.1%
- 2CH. LIAQAT ALIJKN · JKN11,61527.6%
- 3ZULFKAR ALIIndependent · IND7,87018.7%
- 4TASADIQE HUSSAINJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP5,14612.2%
- 5AHSSAIN ULLAH PERVAIZE MALIKIndian National Congress · INC2,2855.4%
- 6MUSHTAQ HUSSAINJammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (Bhim) · JKNPP1,1812.8%
- 7DEV RAJ SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP9112.2%
- 8ZULIFKAR HUSSAINBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8051.9%
- 9ABDUL KHALIQIndependent · IND4701.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–JKN swing
- +14.6%
- IND share
- 26.8% → 28.1%
- JKN share
- 40.9% → 27.6%
- Turnout
- — → —