Constituency
163. Jammu
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-JAMMU
INC 60.0%won by 30.1%BJS 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.3% to 30.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.0% of the vote between them, up from 76.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.9% to 58.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,83,472
Turnout
58.2%
Valid votes
2,81,511
Margin
84,796
30.12%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1INDERJIT MALHOTRAIndian National Congress · INC1,69,00960.0%
- 2ABDUL REHMANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS84,21329.9%
- 3AVTAR SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD9,8963.5%
- 4DHAN RAJPraja Socialist Party · PSP5,3321.9%
- 5SAGAR CHANDIndependent · IND3,1251.1%
- 6OMPRAKASHIndependent · IND2,9301.0%
- 7NASIB SINGHIndependent · IND2,4530.9%
- 8PISHORI LALIndependent · IND2,3440.8%
- 9MADAN SINGHIndependent · IND2,2090.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +9.9%
- INC share
- 48.4% → 60.0%
- BJS share
- 28.2% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- 65.2% → 58.2%