Constituency
8. Simla
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
HP-SIMLA
INC 39.1%won by 2.8%BJP 36.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.5% between them, down from 87.0% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
22,552
Margin
630
2.79%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1HARBHAJAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC8,82539.1%
- 2RADHA RAMAN SHASTRIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,19536.3%
- 3RAKESH SINGHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,36823.8%
- 4LAJJA VERMAIndependent · IND430.2%
- 5HARI RAM GUPTA PANWALAIndependent · IND370.2%
- 6PHOJDAR CHAUHANIndependent · IND280.1%
- 7PARTAP SINGH JISTUIndependent · IND230.1%
- 8DURGA SINGH RATHAURIndependent · IND220.1%
- 9MARIA PANCRAS CHRISTANANDIndependent · IND110.0%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +14.6%
- INC share
- 37.6% → 39.1%
- BJP share
- 49.4% → 36.3%
- Turnout
- — → —