Election
Constituency

18. Paonta Doon

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Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985

HP-PAONTA-DOON

INC 54.9%won by 17.2%BJP 37.6%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.1% to 17.2%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.5% of the vote between them, up from 68.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
27,712
Margin
4,774
17.23%

Since 1982

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INCBJP swing
+8.1%
INC share
39.0% 54.9%
BJP share
29.9% 37.6%
Turnout