Udhampur #5GEN

JAMMU AND KASHMIR · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta

BJP Bharatiya Janta Party

Margin

81,364 15.6 pp

votes

over Rajinder Singh Chib (JKNC)

The contest

15 candidate rows

Electors10,16,243

Votes polled5,22,899

Turnout51.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.47 L53.8% of electorate

Female electors4.7 L46.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 859females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

15 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta	BJP	2,50,813	48.00%
2	Rajinder Singh Chib	JKNC	1,69,449	32.40%
3	Thakur Randhir Singh	INC	36,731	7.00%
4	Khalil Allaha	BSP	28,617	5.50%
5	Prof Bhim Singh	NPP	13,734	2.60%
6	Dooni Chand Thakur	BKKP	6,512	1.20%
7	Jagdish Raj Shastry	SP	3,587	0.70%
8	Shashi Kumar	ABJS	1,256	0.20%
9	Dev Raj	IND	928	0.20%
10	Mehboob Ali Khan	IND	816	0.20%
11	Ashwani Kumar	IND	776	0.10%
12	Ghulam Ali	IND	723	0.10%
13	Koshal Kumar Sharma	IND	493	0.10%
14	Sudarshan Kumar	LS	483	0.10%
15	Rajesh Manchanda	RJD	390	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,591, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 515,308 · NOTA n/a · published 522,899 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998