Constituency
72. Jammu East
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir · Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 2014
JK-JAMMU-EAST
BJP 61.7%won by 36.0%INC 25.7%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 33.3% to 36.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.4% of the vote between them, up from 68.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
53,346
Turnout
66.2%
Valid votes
35,298
Margin
12,694
35.96%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1RAJESH GUPTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP21,77661.7%
- 2VIKRAM MALHOTRAIndian National Congress · INC9,08225.7%
- 3BHARAT CHOWDHARYJKPDP · JKPDP3,0728.7%
- 4SANJEEV GUPTAIndependent · IND4301.2%
- 5BIMLA LUTHRAJKN · JKN2610.7%
- 6KASTURI LAL GUPTAIndependent · IND2400.7%
- 7RAJESH GONDHIJammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (Bhim) · JKNPP1360.4%
- 8None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1290.4%
- 9AJAY JAGOTRAIndependent · IND1120.3%
- 10MAHESH CHANDER PADHAIndependent · IND600.2%
Since 2008
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +2.7%
- BJP share
- 50.7% → 61.7%
- INC share
- 17.5% → 25.7%
- Turnout
- — → 66.2%