Constituency
15. Pachhad
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
HP-PACHHAD
INC 75.6%won by 54.2%IND 21.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 60.0% to 54.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
10,636
Margin
5,764
54.19%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1ZALAM SINGHIndian National Congress · INC8,04675.6%
- 2UCHHBU RAMIndependent · IND2,28221.5%
- 3MANDU RAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3082.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −5.8%
- INC share
- 80.0% → 75.6%
- IND share
- 20.0% → 21.5%
- Turnout
- — → —