Constituency
65. Dharampur
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
HP-DHARAMPUR
INC 59.0%won by 33.1%BJP 25.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.3% to 33.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.9% between them, down from 91.2% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
23,257
Margin
7,690
33.07%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1NATHA SINGHIndian National Congress · INC13,71359.0%
- 2OM CHANDBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,02325.9%
- 3SANGARA SINGHIndependent · IND3,14213.5%
- 4KARAM CHAND VERMAJanata Party · JNP2911.3%
- 5RAM NATHIndependent · IND880.4%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +25.8%
- INC share
- 49.3% → 59.0%
- BJP share
- 42.0% → 25.9%
- Turnout
- — → —