Constituency
8. Kasumpti
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
HP-KASUMPTI
INC 78.4%won by 63.4%BJS 15.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.9% to 63.4%.
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 15.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.5% of the vote between them, up from 69.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
9,482
Margin
6,007
63.35%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SHONKIA RAM KASHYAPIndian National Congress · INC7,43778.4%
- 2PHULMA DEVIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,43015.1%
- 3HERU RAMIndependent · IND4664.9%
- 4PURAN CHANDNCO · NCO1491.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +28.3%
- INC share
- 35.0% → 78.4%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 15.1%
- Turnout
- — → —