Constituency
8. Simla
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1977
HP-SIMLA
JNP 70.7%won by 52.3%INC 18.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 52.3%.
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 70.7% of the vote here (+70.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.0% of the vote between them, up from 80.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
19,961
Margin
10,447
52.34%
Candidates
5 contested · winner JNP- 1DAULAT RAM CHAUHANJanata Party · JNP14,10570.7%
- 2USHA MALHOTRAIndian National Congress · INC3,65818.3%
- 3SUNDER LALIndependent · IND2,02610.1%
- 4TILAK RAJIndependent · IND1130.6%
- 5HARI KRISHAN KAROLIndependent · IND590.3%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–INC swing
- +90.8%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 70.7%
- INC share
- 38.4% → 18.3%
- Turnout
- — → —