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Jammu & Kashmir · Assembly Constituency 66 · 1996
Billawar
Winner — 1996
BALBIR SINGH
INC· INC
INC 36.3%JPP 34.5%6 others 29.2%
Votes
13,354
36.3% share
Winning margin
632
1.7% of votes
Total candidates
8
Turnout
61.8%
of 59,629
Billawar was decided by a razor-thin margin of 1.7% — fewer than 632 votes separated winner from runner-up.
Seat history
All Candidates
8 total| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BALBIR SINGH | INC | 13,354 | 36.3% |
| 2 | RAJINDER SINGH | JPP | 12,722 | 34.5% |
| 3 | SURAM SINGH | 7,379 | 20.0% | |
| 4 | ABDUL MAJID | IND | 1,589 | 4.3% |
| 5 | KARAM DIN CHOPRA | BSP | 687 | 1.9% |
| 6 | KASHMIR SINGH | BJP | 573 | 1.6% |
| 7 | KAMAL KUMAR DUBEY | IND | 315 | 0.9% |
| 8 | HARI CHAND JALMENE | United Front | 216 | 0.6% |
DL — deposit lost: the candidate polled under one-sixth of valid votes and forfeits their election deposit under RPA 1951 s.158.
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.
Average turnout (28th), a typical margin, a two-to-three-way race.
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How safe is this seat?
SEAT
safe1.7%
MORE COMPETITIVESAFER
mean 30.1% · min 1.7% · max 96.5%
How contested is turnout?
SEAT
73%
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28th of 90How crowded is the field?
SEAT
2.60
fewer partiesmore parties
56th of 90How much NOTA?
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0.7%
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71st of 90Where does the house stand?
SEAT
87 seats · 44 majority
How did the vote split?
SEAT
2.60EFFECTIVE PARTIES
INC 36.3%JPP 34.5%JKN 20.0%OTH 9.2%
Who ran, on record?
SEAT
— NOT YET COMPUTEDThis seat number was reused from 2024. The district and local data on file describe the seat as contested from 2024, so they are not shown for earlier elections.