Constituency
31. Santokgarh
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1982
HP-SANTOKGARH
INC 36.2%won by 4.2%IND 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.4% to 36.2% of the vote here (+7.8%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 32.0% — it polled just 1.7% in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.2% between them, down from 84.5% — 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
29,283
Margin
1,218
4.16%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1VIJAY KUMAR JOSHIIndian National Congress · INC10,58936.2%
- 2KASHMIRI LAL JOSHIIndependent · IND9,37132.0%
- 3MOHINDER SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,65719.3%
- 4WATTAN CHANDCommunist Party of India · CPI1,4374.9%
- 5MAHABIR SINGHIndependent · IND9063.1%
- 6GIAN CHANDIndependent · IND5581.9%
- 7RAKESH DUTTIndependent · IND4981.7%
- 8HOSHIAR SINGHJanata Party · JNP2670.9%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −22.6%
- INC share
- 28.4% → 36.2%
- IND share
- 1.7% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- — → —