Constituency
79. Akhnoor
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 2008
JK-AKHNOOR
INC 48.0%won by 21.1%BJP 26.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.8% to 21.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2002 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from JKN (JKN) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.9% of the vote between them, up from 56.9% — 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
65,872
Margin
13,884
21.08%
Candidates
21 contested · winner INC- 1SHAM LAL SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC31,60048.0%
- 2GOVIND RAM SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,71626.9%
- 3VIJAY KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,66810.1%
- 4RAM SAROOPJKN · JKN4,8027.3%
- 5KULDEEP SHARMANationalist Congress Party · NCP1,0881.7%
- 6HARBANS KUMAR SHARMAIndependent · IND6331.0%
- 7SANTOSH KUMAR SHARMAIndependent · IND4900.7%
- 8PREM SINGHIndependent · IND3350.5%
- 9AJIT RAJIndependent · IND3150.5%
- 10M.S JAMWALIndependent · IND3120.5%
- 11RAJESH KUMAR SHARMAIndependent · IND2860.4%
- 12RAMAN KUMAR MISHRAJammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (Bhim) · JKNPP2660.4%
- 13MAKHAN LALIndependent · IND2380.4%
- 14JAGDISH RAJBHBP · BHBP2300.3%
- 15PRABHU DAYAL SINGHIndependent · IND1680.3%
- 16PARSHOTAM LALIndependent · IND1570.2%
- 17TEJ RAMIndependent · IND1550.2%
- 18ASHOK KUMAR SHARMAIndependent · IND1380.2%
- 19NANAK CHANDIndependent · IND1190.2%
- 20BIKRAM SINGHIndependent · IND910.1%
- 21ANGREZU RAM SHARMAIndependent · IND650.1%
Since 2002
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2002 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +6.7%
- INC share
- 29.4% → 48.0%
- BJP share
- 14.9% → 26.9%
- Turnout
- — → —