Constituency
54. Chamba
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
HP-CHAMBA
BJS 44.4%won by 1.5%INC 42.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Jana Sangh held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.1% to 1.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 24.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.4% between them, down from 98.0% — the field split more ways.
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
16,465
Margin
244
1.48%
Candidates
3 contested · winner BJS- 1KISHORI LALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,31444.4%
- 2SAGAR CHANDIndian National Congress · INC7,07042.9%
- 3KULDIP CHANDIndependent · IND2,08112.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- BJS
- BJS–INC swing
- −38.7%
- BJS share
- 69.1% → 44.4%
- INC share
- 28.9% → 42.9%
- Turnout
- — → —