Constituency
170. Jammu
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-JAMMU
IND 44.6%won by 8.1%JKN 36.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 8.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 1.1% to 44.6% of the vote here (+43.5%).
- New challengerJKN (JKN) finished second with 36.5% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.1% between them, down from 90.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,01,007
Turnout
57.4%
Valid votes
3,44,912
Margin
27,939
8.10%
Candidates
9 contested · winner IND- 1THAKUR BALDEV SINGHIndependent · IND1,53,83744.6%
- 2BALRAJ PURIJKN · JKN1,25,89836.5%
- 3ABDUL REHMANBLD · BLD45,88213.3%
- 4BHIM SINGHIndependent · IND8,1722.4%
- 5CHAUDHARY SHABIR AHMED SALARIAIndependent · IND3,8411.1%
- 6ASHWANI KUMAR SONIIndependent · IND2,0180.6%
- 7JAGAT RAM ARYANIndependent · IND1,9090.6%
- 8M. C. MEHTAIndependent · IND1,8120.5%
- 9NAZIR AHMAD GANAIIndependent · IND1,5430.4%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–JKN swing
- +7.0%
- IND share
- 1.1% → 44.6%
- JKN share
- 0.0% → 36.5%
- Turnout
- 58.2% → 57.4%