Constituency
18. Paonta Doon
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-PAONTA-DOON
INC 33.5%won by 5.2%BJP 28.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.0% to 5.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.8% between them, down from 85.5% — 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
46,466
Margin
2,420
5.21%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1RATTAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC15,56933.5%
- 2SUKH RAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,14928.3%
- 3KIRNESH JUNGIndependent · IND12,69727.3%
- 4FATEH SINGHHVC · HVC2,9336.3%
- 5RAM LAL SHARMAShiv Sena · SHS9802.1%
- 6BHAGAT RAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7811.7%
- 7ASGAR ALISamajwadi Party · SP1900.4%
- 8HET RAMJanata Dal · JD1670.4%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −7.8%
- INC share
- 49.2% → 33.5%
- BJP share
- 36.3% → 28.3%
- Turnout
- — → —