Constituency
21. Bilaspur
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
HP-BILASPUR
INC 50.0%won by 27.2%LRP 22.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.5% to 27.2%.
- New challengerLok Raksha Party (LRP) finished second with 22.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.9% between them, down from 82.8% — 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
10,855
Margin
2,954
27.21%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1KISHORI LALIndian National Congress · INC5,43150.0%
- 2SANT RAMLok Raksha Party · LRP2,47722.8%
- 3KANSHI RAM BHANDARIIndependent · IND7567.0%
- 4DEVI RAMIndependent · IND5645.2%
- 5SHANKAR SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI4974.6%
- 6KULDIP SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4774.4%
- 7TEG SINGHIndependent · IND3373.1%
- 8KALI DASSIndependent · IND2322.1%
- 9NAND LALIndependent · IND840.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–LRP swing
- −19.9%
- INC share
- 47.2% → 50.0%
- LRP share
- 0.0% → 22.8%
- Turnout
- — → —