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64. Gopalpur

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Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972

HP-GOPALPUR

IND 59.8%won by 29.3%INC 30.5%

What changed here

Derived

Independent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.2% to 29.3%.

  • Safe seatIndependent 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
14,524
Margin
4,257
29.31%

Candidates

5 contested · winner IND
  1. 1RANGILA RAMIndependent · IND8,69259.8%
  2. 2HARI SINGHIndian National Congress · INC4,43530.5%
  3. 3RAJINDERA SINGHIndependent · IND7575.2%
  4. 4LAL SINGHIndependent · IND5523.8%
  5. 5BACHITER SINGHIndependent · IND880.6%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
IND
Winner now
IND
IND–INC swing
+19.2%
IND share
50.7% → 59.8%
INC share
40.5% → 30.5%
Turnout
— → —
63. Balh65. Dharampur
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