Constituency
67. Joginder Nagar
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
HP-JOGINDER-NAGAR
INC 26.7%won by 4.0%IND 22.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.5% to 4.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.4% between them, down from 63.9% — 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
9,878
Margin
392
3.97%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1PRAKASH CHANDRAIndian National Congress · INC2,63826.7%
- 2RATTAN LALIndependent · IND2,24622.7%
- 3GHANSHYAMIndependent · IND2,09421.2%
- 4MOHINDER PALIndependent · IND1,27412.9%
- 5TARA CHANDCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,20212.2%
- 6INDER SINGHIndependent · IND4244.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −32.6%
- INC share
- 50.2% → 26.7%
- IND share
- 13.7% → 22.7%
- Turnout
- — → —