Constituency
22. Ghumarwin
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-GHUMARWIN
INC 44.6%won by 3.8%BJP 40.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.3% to 3.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.4% between them, down from 97.6% — 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
40,507
Margin
1,539
3.80%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1KASHMIR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC18,06644.6%
- 2KARAM DEVBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,52740.8%
- 3GIAN CHANDHVC · HVC5,10512.6%
- 4PAVNAIndependent · IND5361.3%
- 5JAMNADEVI ALIAS MEERA DEVIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2730.7%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −11.5%
- INC share
- 56.5% → 44.6%
- BJP share
- 41.2% → 40.8%
- Turnout
- — → —