Constituency
59. Gool Arnas
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 2008
JK-GOOL-ARNAS
INC 37.1%won by 8.2%JKN 28.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2002 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 14.8% to 37.1% of the vote here (+22.3%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to JKN (JKN).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 65.9% of the vote between them, up from 51.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
42,086
Margin
3,452
8.20%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1AJAZ AHMED KHANIndian National Congress · INC15,59437.1%
- 2GULAM QADIR MUGHALJKN · JKN12,14228.9%
- 3KABLA SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,20419.5%
- 4SHAMSHAD BANOJKPDP · JKPDP2,9377.0%
- 5FAQIR MOHDJammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (Bhim) · JKNPP1,1372.7%
- 6MADAN LALIndependent · IND7731.8%
- 7MOHD SULTAN MALIKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6571.6%
- 8SHAKEEL AHMEDLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP3860.9%
- 9ABDUL MAJIDANC · ANC2560.6%
Since 2002
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2002 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JKN swing
- +8.0%
- INC share
- 14.8% → 37.1%
- JKN share
- 14.5% → 28.9%
- Turnout
- — → —