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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.