Constituency
22. Geharwin
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
HP-GEHARWIN
INC 53.0%won by 9.2%LRP 43.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.9% to 9.2%.
- New challengerLok Raksha Party (LRP) finished second with 43.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.9% of the vote between them, up from 78.7% — 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
9,418
Margin
862
9.15%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1NIKKU RAMIndian National Congress · INC4,99453.0%
- 2BACHITTAR SIGHLok Raksha Party · LRP4,13243.9%
- 3DURGA DASSBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2923.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–LRP swing
- −38.1%
- INC share
- 47.3% → 53.0%
- LRP share
- 0.0% → 43.9%
- Turnout
- — → —