Constituency
14. Solan
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-SOLAN
INC 33.6%won by 0.1%BJP 33.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.2% to 0.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 30.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.1% between them, down from 96.6% — 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
36,378
Margin
26
0.07%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1KRISHNA MOHINIIndian National Congress · INC12,21033.6%
- 2MOHINDER NATH SOFATBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,18433.5%
- 3HAMINDER SINGH THAKURIndependent · IND9,73926.8%
- 4VINOD KUMARHVC · HVC1,0632.9%
- 5JAGDISH CHANDER BHARDWAJCommunist Party of India · CPI5981.6%
- 6RAVINDER NATH PARIHARSamajwadi Party · SP5121.4%
- 7SATYA DEVIShiv Sena · SHS720.2%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −32.1%
- INC share
- 64.4% → 33.6%
- BJP share
- 32.2% → 33.5%
- Turnout
- — → —