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31. Santokgarh

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Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998

HP-SANTOKGARH

BJP 31.8%won by 5.6%INC 26.2%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 5.6%.

  • BJP vote shareBJP went from 25.6% to 31.8% of the vote here (+6.1%).
  • Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
41,371
Margin
2,311
5.59%

Candidates

7 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1JAI KRISHAN SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,13631.8%
  2. 2ONKAR SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC10,82526.2%
  3. 3KASHMIRI LAL BHARWALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,99219.3%
  4. 4VIJAY KUMAR JOSHIHVC · HVC6,49715.7%
  5. 5KASHMIRI LAL JOSHIAIRJP · AIRJP1,7344.2%
  6. 6SARWAN SINGHJanata Dal · JD7101.7%
  7. 7OM PARKASH DUTTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4771.2%

Since 1993

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
BJPflipped
BJP–INC swing
+13.8%
BJP share
25.6% → 31.8%
INC share
33.9% → 26.2%
Turnout
— → —
30. Chintpurni32. Una
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