Constituency
13. Simla
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
HP-SIMLA
BJS 42.3%won by 3.9%INC 38.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Jana Sangh held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 34.5% to 3.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.8% between them, down from 87.8% — the field split more ways.
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
14,147
Margin
555
3.92%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJS- 1DAULAT RAM CHAUHANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,99042.3%
- 2SHIV DUTT BHARDWAJIndian National Congress · INC5,43538.4%
- 3PRITHI CHANDIndependent · IND1,88013.3%
- 4SURRINDER SINGH AHUJAIndependent · IND2631.9%
- 5INDER CHAND GUPTANCO · NCO1841.3%
- 6J. JACOBSOP · SOP1691.2%
- 7KALI DASS VASUDEVAIndependent · IND1120.8%
- 8COMRADE JOGINDER SINGHIndependent · IND700.5%
- 9BASHESHAR DAYALIndependent · IND440.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- BJS
- BJS–INC swing
- −30.5%
- BJS share
- 61.2% → 42.3%
- INC share
- 26.7% → 38.4%
- Turnout
- — → —