Constituency
59. Outer Seraj
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
HP-OUTER-SERAJ
INC 58.2%won by 31.5%CPI 26.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 88.8% to 31.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 36.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 26.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.0% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
12,018
Margin
3,787
31.51%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1ISLHAR DASSIndian National Congress · INC7,00058.2%
- 2TALKU RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI3,21326.7%
- 3DARU RASSLok Raksha Party · LRP1,80515.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −62.9%
- INC share
- 94.4% → 58.2%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 26.7%
- Turnout
- — → —