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State: Jammu & Kashmir
Constituency: Jammu
Total Votes Polled: 581314
Winner: INC Mangat Ram Sharma 194228
Runner Up: BJP Vaid Vishno Dutt 147495
Margin: 46733 (8.24%)

The constituency has remained strictly with the Congress, and despite its claims of making inroads into the Hindu constituency, the BJP could manage only 26 % of the votes in the 1996 elections.

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