Constituency
78. Jammu West
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir · Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Election, 2024
JK-JAMMU-WEST
BJP 64.7%won by 34.1%INC 30.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 51.4% to 34.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2014 and 2024 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.3% of the vote between them, up from 89.9% — 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
64,820
Margin
22,127
34.14%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1ARVIND GUPTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP41,96364.7%
- 2MANMOHAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC19,83630.6%
- 3GOURAV CHOPRADPAP · DPAP6671.0%
- 4NOTANOTA · NOTA5300.8%
- 5SAHIL SHARMAIndependent · IND4790.7%
- 6RAJAT GUPTAJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP3830.6%
- 7SUMIT SHARMASamyukta Socialist Party · SSP1930.3%
- 8RAKESH KUMARJammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (Bhim) · JKNPP1740.3%
- 9RAJ KUMAR LALOTRAIndependent · IND1600.2%
- 10SHIKHA BANDRALNAUP · NAUP1490.2%
- 11MEENAKSHI CHIBBERSBT · SBT1260.2%
- 12RISHI KAULIndependent · IND870.1%
- 13SAWTANTER BHARAT BAKSHIHIP · HIP730.1%
Since 2014
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2014 and 2024. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −17.2%
- BJP share
- 70.6% → 64.7%
- INC share
- 19.3% → 30.6%
- Turnout
- 64.1% → —