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State: Jammu & Kashmir
Constituency: Srinagar
Total Votes Polled: 321928
Winner: INC Ghulam Mohammad Mir 55503
Runner Up: JD Farooq Ahmad Anderabi 53904
Margin: 1599 (0.54%)

In 1980 Dr Farooq Abdullah was elected unopposed from this constituency, and true to style the constituency remained strictly pro-NC. In 1996, however, the Congress turned the tables on the NC, with its candidate Ghulam Mohammed Mir defeating the NC.

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