Constituency
67. Hiranagar
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 2008
JK-HIRANAGAR
BJP 30.5%won by 4.2%IND 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 4.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2002 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 23.1% to 30.5% of the vote here (+7.5%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 26.3% — it polled just 0.6% in 2002.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.8% between them, down from 77.9% — 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
64,680
Margin
2,737
4.23%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1DURGA DASSBharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,73030.5%
- 2PREM LALIndependent · IND16,99326.3%
- 3GIRDHARI LALIndian National Congress · INC14,11321.8%
- 4DHARAM PAULJKN · JKN3,6705.7%
- 5TARA CHANDIndependent · IND2,7454.2%
- 6RANO DEVIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,1313.3%
- 7BANSI LAL KANDLEYIndependent · IND1,6132.5%
- 8ASHOK KUMARJammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (Bhim) · JKNPP1,5622.4%
- 9RATTAN LALIndependent · IND9521.5%
- 10CHANDU RAMIndependent · IND6371.0%
- 11RATTAN CHANDIndependent · IND5340.8%
Since 2002
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2002 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–IND swing
- −18.2%
- BJP share
- 23.1% → 30.5%
- IND share
- 0.6% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —