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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.