Constituency
2. Rampur
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-RAMPUR
INC 58.7%won by 36.6%BJP 22.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 42.5% to 36.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.8% between them, down from 99.0% — 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
39,745
Margin
14,565
36.65%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SINGHI RAMIndian National Congress · INC23,33858.7%
- 2NINZOO RAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,77322.1%
- 3VISHESHER LALIndependent · IND7,38818.6%
- 4PANNA LALIndependent · IND2460.6%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −5.8%
- INC share
- 70.7% → 58.7%
- BJP share
- 28.3% → 22.1%
- Turnout
- — → —