Constituency
43. Baijnath
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
HP-BAIJNATH
INC 58.8%won by 18.4%BJP 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.3% to 18.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.2% of the vote between them, up from 64.6% — 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
23,416
Margin
4,305
18.38%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1SANT RAMIndian National Congress · INC13,76758.8%
- 2DULO RAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,46240.4%
- 3KULDIP CHAND KATOCHIndependent · IND1870.8%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −9.5%
- INC share
- 45.9% → 58.8%
- BJP share
- 18.0% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- — → —