Constituency
18. Paonta Doon
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
HP-PAONTA-DOON
INC 54.9%won by 17.2%BJP 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
27,712
Margin
4,774
17.23%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1KUSH PARMARIndian National Congress · INC15,20354.9%
- 2KARAM CHANDBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,42937.6%
- 3MALU RAMIndependent · IND1,4975.4%
- 4BISHARAT ALIIndependent · IND3461.2%
- 5MOHD. ISMAILIndependent · IND2370.9%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +8.1%
- INC share
- 39.0% → 54.9%
- BJP share
- 29.9% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- — → —