Constituency
50. Baijnath
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
HP-BAIJNATH
INC 76.5%won by 60.8%CPI 15.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 60.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 24.8% to 76.5% of the vote here (+51.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.3% of the vote between them, up from 51.0% — 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
11,088
Margin
6,740
60.79%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SANT RAMIndian National Congress · INC8,48776.5%
- 2BIDHI CHANDCommunist Party of India · CPI1,74715.8%
- 3MONAIndependent · IND6806.1%
- 4KARM CHANDIndependent · IND1741.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +62.2%
- INC share
- 24.8% → 76.5%
- CPI share
- 26.2% → 15.8%
- Turnout
- — → —