1980 Indian general election in Jammu and Kashmir
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The 1980 Indian general election in Jammu and Kashmir to the 7th Lok Sabha were held for 6 seats. Jammu and Kashmir National Conference won 3 seats, Indian National Congress (I) won 1, Indian National Congress (U) won 1 seat and an independent candidate Phuntsog Namgyal of Ladakh constituency won 1 seat.[1]
Constituency Details
| Constituency | Electors | Voters | Polling % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baramulla | 489040 | 273949 | 56.02 |
| Srinagar | 519706 | - | - |
| Anantnag | 511132 | 306998 | 60.06 |
| Ladakh | 77631 | 48000 | 61.83 |
| Udhampur | 578770 | 338969 | 58.57 |
| Jammu | 691358 | 410072 | 59.31 |
Results
Party-wise Results
| Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
| JKNC | 4,93,143 | 36.88 | 2.96 | 5 | 3 | 1 | |||
| INC(I) | 2,49,760 | 18.68 | New | 1 | 1 | New | |||
| INC(U) | 1,94,138 | 14.52 | New | 2 | 1 | New | |||
| JP | 1,15,503 | 8.64 | 0.41 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| IND | 2,84,459 | 21.28 | 20.20 | 20 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 13,37,003 | 100% | - | 29 | 6 | - | |||
List of Elected MPs
| Constituency | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| 1 | Baramulla | Khawaja Mubarak Shah | JKNC | 178,533 | 67.57 | Muzaffar Hussain Beg | IND | 75,256 | 28.48 | 103,277 | 39.09 | ||
| 2 | Srinagar | Farooq Abdullah | JKNC | Won Uncontested | |||||||||
| 3 | Anantnag | Gh. Rasool Kochak | JKNC | 179,020 | 60.47 | Ali Mohd. Naik | IND | 95,050 | 32.11 | 83,970 | 28.36 | ||
| 4 | Ladakh | Phuntsog Namgyal | IND | 20,314 | 44.47 | Kacho Habib Ullah Khan | JKNC | 14,262 | 31.22 | 6,052 | 13.25 | ||
| 5 | Udhampur | Karan Singh | INC(U) | 176,757 | 53.38 | Devi Das Thakur | JKNC | 121,328 | 36.64 | 55,429 | 16.74 | ||
| 6 | Jammu | Girdhari Lal Dogra | INC(I) | 249,760 | 62.46 | Thakur Baldev Singh | JP | 115,503 | 28.88 | 134,257 | 33.58 | ||
See also
References
- ^ "1980 India General (7th Lok Sabha) Elections Results". www.elections.in. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
- ^ STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1980 TO THE SEVENTH LOK SABHA VOLUME II - http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_II_LS_80.pdf
- ^ STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1980 TO THE SEVENTH LOK SABHA VOLUME I - http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf