Constituency
52. Banikhet
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
HP-BANIKHET
INC 75.4%won by 58.0%IND 17.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.4% to 58.0%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 17.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
12,842
Margin
7,451
58.02%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1DES RAJIndian National Congress · INC9,68275.4%
- 2JAGDISH MITTERIndependent · IND2,23117.4%
- 3DAULAT RAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9297.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +4.7%
- INC share
- 53.3% → 75.4%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 17.4%
- Turnout
- — → —