Constituency
20. Kotkehloor
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1982
HP-KOTKEHLOOR
INC 30.4%won by 2.6%BJP 27.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 26.1% to 30.4% of the vote here (+4.3%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 27.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.2% between them, down from 95.5% — 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
21,059
Margin
539
2.56%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1DAULAT RAM SANKHYANIndian National Congress · INC6,40030.4%
- 2DAULAT RAM SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,86127.8%
- 3KRISHAN KUMARCommunist Party of India · CPI5,27125.0%
- 4TULSI RAMIndependent · IND1,0495.0%
- 5WATTAN SINGHLKD · LKD1,0074.8%
- 6BUDHI SINGH KAUNDALJanata Party · JNP6773.2%
- 7PARAS RAMIndependent · IND5862.8%
- 8PARAS RAM DURVASHAIndependent · IND2081.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −23.6%
- INC share
- 26.1% → 30.4%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 27.8%
- Turnout
- — → —