Constituency
39. Pragpur
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1993
HP-PRAGPUR
BJP 42.6%won by 5.3%IND 37.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.6% to 5.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 37.2% — it polled just 0.3% in 1990.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.8% between them, down from 98.5% — 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
32,148
Margin
1,717
5.34%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1VIRENDER KUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,68542.6%
- 2YOG RAJIndependent · IND11,96837.2%
- 3PRITAM CHAND SHERIAIndian National Congress · INC5,52017.2%
- 4DALIP KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7022.2%
- 5ROSHAN LALIndependent · IND1610.5%
- 6PARKASH CHAND SARARADDP · DDP1120.3%
Since 1990
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–IND swing
- −57.4%
- BJP share
- 63.0% → 42.6%
- IND share
- 0.3% → 37.2%
- Turnout
- — → —