Constituency
33. Gagret
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
HP-GAGRET
INC 76.2%won by 61.0%BJS 15.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.9% to 61.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.4% of the vote between them, up from 63.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
14,226
Margin
8,676
60.99%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MEHNGA SINGHIndian National Congress · INC10,83876.2%
- 2RAJINDER NATHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,16215.2%
- 3RATTAN DEV SINGHIndependent · IND6584.6%
- 4MILKHA SINGHNCO · NCO3032.1%
- 5KHUSHI RAMIndependent · IND2651.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +45.1%
- INC share
- 39.6% → 76.2%
- BJS share
- 23.7% → 15.2%
- Turnout
- — → —