Constituency
33. Kutlehar
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-KUTLEHAR
BJP 33.6%won by 0.0%INC 33.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.0% to 0.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.2% between them, down from 89.6% — 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
34,722
Margin
3
0.01%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1RAM DASS MALANGARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,66033.6%
- 2MAHENDRA PALIndian National Congress · INC11,65733.6%
- 3RAM NATH SHARMAIndependent · IND7,97723.0%
- 4ROSHAN LAL ARVINDBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,3916.9%
- 5CAPT. ONKAR CHAND LOHIAJanata Dal · JD5071.5%
- 6DESH RAJ GAUTAMIndependent · IND2820.8%
- 7SURESH CHANDAIRJP · AIRJP1910.6%
- 8NEELAM KUMARIIndependent · IND570.2%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −3.0%
- BJP share
- 46.3% → 33.6%
- INC share
- 43.3% → 33.6%
- Turnout
- — → —