Constituency

8. Simla

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Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998

HP-SIMLA

BJP 47.2%won by 8.3%INC 38.9%

What changed here

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The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 8.3%.

BJP vote shareBJP went from 32.4% to 47.2% of the vote here (+14.9%).
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.2% of the vote between them, up from 67.1% — 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

31,236

Margin

2,603

8.33%

3 contested · winner BJP

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