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Jammu & Kashmir · PC 6 · 1998
Jammu
Winner — Lok Sabha 1998
VAID VISHNO DUTT
BJP· NDA (NDA)
BJP 42.6%JKN 26.4%16 others 31.0%
Votes
3,36,472
43.3% share
Winning margin
1,27,901
16.4% of votes
Total votes cast
7,89,529
Candidates
18
Seat history
All Candidates
18 total| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VAID VISHNO DUTT | NDA (NDA) | 3,36,472 | 43.3% |
| 2 | JANAK RAJ GUPTA | 2,08,571 | 26.8% | |
| 3 | MANGAT RAM SHARMA | 1,40,832 | 18.1% | |
| 4 | GIRDHARI LAL | 74,030 | 9.5% | |
| 5 | SATISH POONCHI | LS | 3,647 | 0.5% |
| 6 | SOM NATH | 2,698 | 0.3% | |
| 7 | RAJINDER KUMAR | IND | 2,199 | 0.3% |
| 8 | ANAM HAFIZ CHOUDHARY | IND | 1,686 | 0.2% |
| 9 | SURJIT SINGH | IND | 1,151 | 0.1% |
| 10 | SUNIL GUPTA | IND | 1,031 | 0.1% |
| 11 | SOM NATH | IND | 981 | 0.1% |
| 12 | HARDEV SINGH | 766 | 0.1% | |
| 13 | SUNDER SINGH | IND | 766 | 0.1% |
| 14 | VIDHI SHARAN SINGH | IND | 759 | 0.1% |
| 15 | PREM NATH | IND | 698 | 0.1% |
| 16 | SUBASH CHANDER | IND | 685 | 0.1% |
| 17 | VIJAY KUMAR | 584 | 0.1% | |
| 18 | GHULAM ALI | IND | 301 | 0.0% |
Affidavit details — declared assets, criminal cases and education — aren't available for this seat yet. The results above are complete; only the candidate-affidavit layer is missing.
An essentially two-way race.
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How safe is this seat?
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safe16.4%
— NOT REPORTEDmean 17.0% · min 2.1% · max 33.6%
How contested is turnout?
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73%
lowerhigher
How crowded is the field?
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2.09
fewer partiesmore parties
How much NOTA?
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— NOT REPORTEDHow often does it back the winner?
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neveralways
matches the ruling party
How did the vote split?
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2.09EFFECTIVE PARTIES
BJP 43.3%JKN 26.8%INC 18.1%BSP 9.5%OTH 2.3%
Who ran, on record?
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— NOT YET COMPUTEDHistorical constituency — last contested in 2019. Redrawn or abolished in a later delimitation, so it has no present-day district or state context; its full territorial history is above and in the Seat-history drawer.