Constituency
51. Banikhet
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1982
HP-BANIKHET
INC 49.9%won by 25.7%CPI 24.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 25.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.7% to 49.9% of the vote here (+21.2%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 24.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.2% 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
25,376
Margin
6,509
25.65%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1DES RAJ MAHAJANIndian National Congress · INC12,66349.9%
- 2DAULAT RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI6,15424.3%
- 3GIAN CHANDBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,18320.4%
- 4GANDHRV SINGHJanata Party · JNP6832.7%
- 5BHAGAT RAMIndependent · IND3871.5%
- 6PRITAM SINGHLKD · LKD2400.9%
- 7BABU PERMENDER MAHAJANIndependent · IND660.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −3.0%
- INC share
- 28.7% → 49.9%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 24.3%
- Turnout
- — → —