Constituency
65. Kathua
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir · Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 2014
JK-KATHUA
BJP 39.1%won by 7.5%BSP 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 7.5%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 10.7% to 39.1% of the vote here (+28.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 70.8% of the vote between them, up from 48.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,13,075
Turnout
80.7%
Valid votes
91,205
Margin
6,806
7.46%
Candidates
16 contested · winner BJP- 1RAJIV JASROTIABharatiya Janata Party · BJP35,67039.1%
- 2SOM RAJ MAJOTRABahujan Samaj Party · BSP28,86431.6%
- 3CHARANJIT SINGHIndependent · IND13,24214.5%
- 4JATINDER SINGH ALIAS BABU SINGHIndian National Congress · INC7,1957.9%
- 5SUBASH CHANDERJKPDP · JKPDP1,3051.4%
- 6ROBIN RAMKRISHAN ALIAS ROBIN SHARMAIndependent · IND1,0881.2%
- 7MANOJ KUMARCommunist Party of India · CPI7600.8%
- 8KISHOR KUMARJKN · JKN7020.8%
- 9BALBIR SINGHJammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (Bhim) · JKNPP5050.6%
- 10S. JAMIT SINGHIndependent · IND4110.5%
- 11NARESH KUMAR SHARMAIndependent · IND3860.4%
- 12None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2720.3%
- 13GURNAM SINGHAJKMP · AJKMP2270.2%
- 14KASTURI LALBMUP · BMUP2120.2%
- 15SUDESH KUMARIndependent · IND2010.2%
- 16HARISH CHANDER SHARMAIndependent · IND1650.2%
Since 2008
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–BSP swing
- +19.4%
- BJP share
- 10.7% → 39.1%
- BSP share
- 22.6% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → 80.7%