Constituency
44. Palampur
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1982
HP-PALAMPUR
BJP 46.7%won by 7.8%INC 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 7.8%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 0.0% to 46.7% of the vote here (+46.7%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.6% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
22,500
Margin
1,746
7.76%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1SARWAN KUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,50846.7%
- 2KUNJ BIHARI LALIndian National Congress · INC8,76238.9%
- 3MEHAR CHANDIndependent · IND1,1715.2%
- 4IQBAL SINGH GULERIALKD · LKD6823.0%
- 5PRITAM PAHARIACommunist Party of India · CPI6442.9%
- 6HARBINDER SINGHIndependent · IND4271.9%
- 7DES RAJ CHAUDHARIIndependent · IND2331.0%
- 8NAIK PREM CHANDIndependent · IND730.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +51.2%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 46.7%
- INC share
- 43.5% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- — → —