Constituency
29. Kutlehar
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
HP-KUTLEHAR
INC 62.3%won by 24.7%LRP 37.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 24.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.1% to 62.3% of the vote here (+34.2%).
- New challengerLok Raksha Party (LRP) finished second with 37.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 76.1% — 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
17,243
Margin
4,257
24.69%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1SARLA SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC10,75062.3%
- 2RANJIT SINGHLok Raksha Party · LRP6,49337.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–LRP swing
- −3.4%
- INC share
- 28.1% → 62.3%
- LRP share
- 0.0% → 37.7%
- Turnout
- — → —