Constituency
63. Balh
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
HP-BALH
INC 46.1%won by 1.0%BJP 45.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 2.0% to 1.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.2% between them, down from 97.6% — the field split more ways.
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
27,579
Margin
279
1.01%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PIRU RAMIndian National Congress · INC12,71946.1%
- 2DAMODER DASSBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,44045.1%
- 3NEK RAMIndependent · IND1,5415.6%
- 4KARAM SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI2661.0%
- 5DHARAM SINGHIndependent · IND2340.8%
- 6ANANT RAMIndependent · IND2010.7%
- 7MINKU RAMIndependent · IND1780.6%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −1.0%
- INC share
- 49.8% → 46.1%
- BJP share
- 47.8% → 45.1%
- Turnout
- — → —