Constituency
20. Kotkehloor
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
HP-KOTKEHLOOR
INC 44.0%won by 1.7%CPI 42.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 2.6% to 1.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.3% of the vote between them, up from 58.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
25,396
Margin
444
1.75%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1RAM LAL THAKURIndian National Congress · INC11,18344.0%
- 2KRISHAN KUMAR KAUSHALCommunist Party of India · CPI10,73942.3%
- 3DAULAT RAM SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,47413.7%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −3.6%
- INC share
- 30.4% → 44.0%
- CPI share
- 25.0% → 42.3%
- Turnout
- — → —