Constituency
48. Dharamsala
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1982
HP-DHARAMSALA
BJP 46.3%won by 12.4%INC 33.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 12.4%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 0.0% to 46.3% of the vote here (+46.3%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.2% between them, down from 96.5% — 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
20,549
Margin
2,542
12.37%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1BRIJ LALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,51346.3%
- 2MOOL RAJ SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC6,97133.9%
- 3CHANDERVERKARIndependent · IND2,51112.2%
- 4SITA RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI8324.0%
- 5SITAL RAMJanata Party · JNP2501.2%
- 6SHIV SHANKARLKD · LKD1510.7%
- 7SWAMI SHANTA NANDIndependent · IND1050.5%
- 8ONKAR SINGH KAISTHAIndependent · IND1020.5%
- 9PYARE LALIndependent · IND620.3%
- 10PURAN CHAND AGGARWALIndependent · IND270.1%
- 11SUSHILA SHARMAIndependent · IND250.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +50.7%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 46.3%
- INC share
- 38.3% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- — → —