Constituency
61. Chachiot
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
HP-CHACHIOT
INC 65.7%won by 38.7%IND 27.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.4% to 38.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- 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
14,276
Margin
5,521
38.67%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1KARAM SINGHIndian National Congress · INC9,37465.7%
- 2MOTI RAMIndependent · IND3,85327.0%
- 3JAI CHANDIndependent · IND1,0497.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +28.3%
- INC share
- 55.2% → 65.7%
- IND share
- 44.8% → 27.0%
- Turnout
- — → —