Constituency
51. Bhattiyat
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
HP-BHATTIYAT
INC 47.8%won by 11.8%NCO 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.8% to 47.8% of the vote here (+19.1%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 36.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.9% of the vote between them, up from 64.3% — 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
6,840
Margin
806
11.78%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1PADMAIndian National Congress · INC3,27247.8%
- 2JAGDISHNCO · NCO2,46636.1%
- 3AMAR SINGHIndependent · IND96114.0%
- 4DAYA CHANDIndependent · IND1412.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −17.0%
- INC share
- 28.8% → 47.8%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- — → —