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J&K District Election Results: Margin of Victory less than 100 in 19 seats

Jammu
December 24, 2020

19 candidates saw an extremely close contest in the maiden District Development Council (DDC) polls in Jammu and Kashmir where the margin of victory was less than 100 votes.
Of these candidates, 8 are Independents, followed by 3 from the BJP, 2 each from the National Conference and the Congress and 1 each from the Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP), People Democratic Front (PDF) and the Peoples Conference (PC), as per data of the state election authority.

Avtar Singh, who contested as Independent candidate in the Dadsara constituency of Pulwama district, won the DDC polls by just by a margin of 3 votes. Mr. Singh polled 246 votes while rival National Conference candidate Ali Mohmmad Bhat polled 243 votes.

Khalid Bibi won Larnoo segment of Anantnag district on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket with a thin margin of 7 votes as she polled 4,580 votes against his rival Independent candidate Sajida Begam, who polled 4,573 votes.

Two candidates lost by just 11 votes in Shopian district. Former BJP Minister Sham Lal Choudhary lost in the Suchetgarh constituency of Jammu district by 11 votes.

As per figures of the State election authority, Sham Lal Choudhary polled 12,958 votes against Independent candidate Taranjit Singh, who polled 12,969 votes and lost by a very thin margin of 11 votes in Suchetgarh segment of Jammu district.