Constituency
5. Chopal
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1977
HP-CHOPAL
JNP 45.2%won by 22.0%IND 23.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 22.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 0.0% to 45.2% of the vote here (+45.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.4% between them, down from 92.4% — 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
14,307
Margin
3,153
22.04%
Candidates
8 contested · winner JNP- 1RADHA RAMANJanata Party · JNP6,46645.2%
- 2SANT RAMIndependent · IND3,31323.2%
- 3MANGAL SINGHIndependent · IND1,90113.3%
- 4SABLA RAMIndependent · IND1,74412.2%
- 5MANGAT RAMIndependent · IND3072.1%
- 6SHYAM SINGHIndependent · IND3042.1%
- 7DAVINDER SINGHIndependent · IND2511.8%
- 8SURAT SINGHIndependent · IND210.1%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–IND swing
- +31.8%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 45.2%
- IND share
- 9.8% → 23.2%
- Turnout
- — → —