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171. Jammu

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Jammu & Kashmir · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-JAMMU

BJP 43.5%won by 21.3%JKN 22.1%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.4% to 21.3%.

  • TurnoutTurnout fell 7.9% to 46.0%.
  • Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
14,46,792
Turnout
46.0%
Valid votes
6,65,921
Margin
1,42,019
21.33%

Candidates

22 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1Vishno Datt SharmaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,89,41243.5%
  2. 2Rajinder Singh ChibJKN · JKN1,47,39322.1%
  3. 3Madan Lal SharmaIndian National Congress · INC1,26,35619.0%
  4. 4Makhan SinghBahujan Samaj Party · BSP53,6658.1%
  5. 5Sardar Tarlok SinghIndependent · IND15,5982.3%
  6. 6Qammar RabbaniIndependent · IND7,8901.2%
  7. 7Shamsher Singh BhauSJPR · SJPR7,0411.1%
  8. 8Bachan SinghIndependent · IND2,8780.4%
  9. 9Hussain AhmedNationalist Congress Party · NCP2,4560.4%
  10. 10Sat PaulCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,7870.3%
  11. 11Vivek GuptaRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD1,7430.3%
  12. 12Davinder KumarIndependent · IND1,5100.2%
  13. 13Anil SharmaJanahitha Paksha · JP1,4140.2%
  14. 14Subash Chander LangerSPI · SPI1,1800.2%
  15. 15Kamal GoriaIndependent · IND1,1270.2%
  16. 16Jaimal RamIndependent · IND8990.1%
  17. 17Vijay KumarIndependent · IND8370.1%
  18. 18Bhagwati SharanJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS7550.1%
  19. 19Om PrakashBRPP · BRPP6550.1%
  20. 20Jaswinder SinghIndependent · IND6480.1%
  21. 21Durga DassIndependent · IND4460.1%
  22. 22Tripta KumariSPSP · SPSP2310.0%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–JKN swing
+4.9%
BJP share
43.3% → 43.5%
JKN share
26.8% → 22.1%
Turnout
53.9% → 46.0%
170. Udhampur172. Bidar
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