Constituency
158. Jammu
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-JAMMU
INCI 62.5%won by 33.6%JNP 28.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 33.6%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 62.5% of the vote here (+62.5%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 28.9% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.3% of the vote between them, up from 81.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,91,358
Turnout
57.8%
Valid votes
3,99,899
Margin
1,34,257
33.57%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INCI- 1GIRDHARI LAL DOGRAINCI · INCI2,49,76062.5%
- 2THAKUR BALDEV SINGHJanata Party · JNP1,15,50328.9%
- 3BABU RAMIndependent · IND9,8812.5%
- 4BHAGAT RAM CHANDIndependent · IND6,3281.6%
- 5NAZIR AHMED GANAIIndependent · IND5,5361.4%
- 6OM PRAKASH BHAGATIndependent · IND4,1031.0%
- 7CH. RAM SWAROOP SHARABIIndependent · IND3,7450.9%
- 8KAMAL KUMAR DUBEYIndependent · IND2,6370.7%
- 9UDAY CHANDIndependent · IND2,4060.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–JNP swing
- +33.6%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 62.5%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 28.9%
- Turnout
- 57.4% → 57.8%