Constituency
10. Arki
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-ARKI
INC 42.0%won by 1.7%BJP 40.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.9% to 1.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.2% between them, down from 98.6% — 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
34,147
Margin
578
1.69%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1DHARAM PAL THAKURIndian National Congress · INC14,32742.0%
- 2NAGIN CHANDRA PALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,74940.3%
- 3INDER SINGH THAKURHVC · HVC3,85011.3%
- 4RAM KRISHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,0446.0%
- 5SANT RAMJanata Dal · JD1770.5%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −18.2%
- INC share
- 59.2% → 42.0%
- BJP share
- 39.4% → 40.3%
- Turnout
- — → —