Constituency
40. Jawalamukhi
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1982
HP-JAWALAMUKHI
BJP 40.6%won by 8.2%INC 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 8.2%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 0.0% to 40.6% of the vote here (+40.6%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 32.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.0% of the vote between them, up from 65.3% — 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
23,035
Margin
1,878
8.15%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1KASHMIR SINGH RANABharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,35040.6%
- 2MELA RAM SAVERIndian National Congress · INC7,47232.4%
- 3ISHWAR CHANDIndependent · IND5,19922.6%
- 4VIJAY SINGHIndependent · IND3791.6%
- 5KANSHI RAMIndependent · IND3131.4%
- 6PARMODH SINGHLKD · LKD1070.5%
- 7PREM CHANDIndependent · IND880.4%
- 8VED BHUSHANJanata Party · JNP810.4%
- 9ASHOK KUMAR GAUTAMIndependent · IND460.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +8.2%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 40.6%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- — → —