Constituency
40. Gangath
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
HP-GANGATH
INC 58.7%won by 28.6%IND 30.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.3% to 28.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Swatantra Party (SWA) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.8% of the vote between them, up from 55.1% — 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
13,627
Margin
3,902
28.63%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1DHINOO RAMIndian National Congress · INC8,00258.7%
- 2OM PRAKASHIndependent · IND4,10030.1%
- 3DURGA DASSBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,36110.0%
- 4BANSI LALIndependent · IND1090.8%
- 5RANJHA RAMIndependent · IND550.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +14.9%
- INC share
- 31.7% → 58.7%
- IND share
- 17.9% → 30.1%
- Turnout
- — → —