Constituency
17. Ganderbal
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 2008
JK-GANDERBAL
JKN 41.5%won by 20.6%JKPDP 20.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost it to JKN (JKN), which now leads by 20.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2002 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- JKN vote shareJKN went from 36.3% to 41.5% of the vote here (+5.1%).
- New challengerJKPDP (JKPDP) finished second with 20.9% — it did not contest here in 2002.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.3% between them, down from 84.6% — 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
39,818
Margin
8,215
20.63%
Candidates
12 contested · winner JKN- 1OMAR ABDULLAHJKN · JKN16,51941.5%
- 2QAZI MOHAMMAD AFZALJKPDP · JKPDP8,30420.9%
- 3SHEIKH ISHFAQ AHMADIndian National Congress · INC8,07720.3%
- 4FAROOQ AHMAD DARJKDPN · JKDPN2,6226.6%
- 5BASHIR AHMED BHATRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD7591.9%
- 6GH HASSAN DARBCDP · BCDP7371.9%
- 7NISSAR AHMAD BHATIndependent · IND7261.8%
- 8NAZIR AHMAD LONEJKANC · JKANC6781.7%
- 9AB RASHID SHEIKHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5511.4%
- 10FAROOQ AHMADJammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (Bhim) · JKNPP3750.9%
- 11ALI MOHAMMAD BABABahujan Samaj Party · BSP3740.9%
- 12SYED ALI MOHAMMAD SHAHIndependent · IND960.2%
Since 2002
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2002 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- PDP
- Winner now
- JKNflipped
- JKN–JKPDP swing
- −15.7%
- JKN share
- 36.3% → 41.5%
- JKPDP share
- 0.0% → 20.9%
- Turnout
- — → —