Constituency
168. Anantnag
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-ANANTNAG
JKN 37.7%won by 13.1%IND 24.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to JKN (JKN), which now leads by 13.1%.
- JKN vote shareJKN went from 31.8% to 37.7% of the vote here (+5.9%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 24.5% — it polled just 0.8% in 1998.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.2% between them, down from 87.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 14.0% to 12.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,04,911
Turnout
12.8%
Valid votes
1,02,877
Margin
13,492
13.11%
Candidates
18 contested · winner JKN- 1Ali Mohd NaikJKN · JKN38,74537.7%
- 2Mufti Mohmad SyeedIndependent · IND25,25324.5%
- 3Mohmad YousufCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM15,64915.2%
- 4Peerzada Mohammad SyeedIndian National Congress · INC9,3219.1%
- 5Altaf Mohammad PadderJKAL · JKAL2,8822.8%
- 6Mohd Maqbool DarJanata Dal (United) · JDU2,1932.1%
- 7Ajay SharmaJanahitha Paksha · JP1,7721.7%
- 8Ghulam Nabi Mir (Azad)AJKPPF · AJKPPF1,5001.5%
- 9Showkat Hussain YaniBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,0531.0%
- 10YussafJammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (Bhim) · JKNPP8660.8%
- 11Bashir AhmadSJPR · SJPR7250.7%
- 12Mushtaq Ahmad KhandaySPSP · SPSP6970.7%
- 13Peerzada Abdul HamidJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS6740.7%
- 14Hafeeza BegumIndependent · IND4500.4%
- 15Bashir AhmadIndependent · IND4130.4%
- 16Abdul AzizIndependent · IND2880.3%
- 17AishaRashtriya Lok Dal · RLD2630.3%
- 18Rashid BhatLok Shakti · LS1330.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JKNflipped
- JKN–IND swing
- −17.9%
- JKN share
- 31.8% → 37.7%
- IND share
- 0.8% → 24.5%
- Turnout
- 26.8% → 12.8%