Constituency
5. Chopal
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1982
HP-CHOPAL
INC 57.9%won by 20.2%BJP 37.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 20.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 57.9% of the vote here (+57.9%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 37.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.6% of the vote between them, up from 68.4% — 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
21,247
Margin
4,294
20.21%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1KEWAL RAM CHAUHANIndian National Congress · INC12,30757.9%
- 2RADHA RAMAN SHASTRIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,01337.7%
- 3ATTAR SINGH TAHKURIndependent · IND5982.8%
- 4MANGAT RAM AZTALKD · LKD3291.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +20.2%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 57.9%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 37.7%
- Turnout
- — → —