Constituency
35. Gangath
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-GANGATH
BJP 47.6%won by 0.4%INC 47.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 0.4%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 36.1% to 47.6% of the vote here (+11.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.9% of the vote between them, up from 79.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
39,423
Margin
148
0.38%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1DES RAJBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,77147.6%
- 2BODH RAJIndian National Congress · INC18,62347.2%
- 3KARAN DASSBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1092.8%
- 4SHAM LALCommunist Party of India · CPI5211.3%
- 5PIARE LALHVC · HVC3991.0%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +7.3%
- BJP share
- 36.1% → 47.6%
- INC share
- 43.0% → 47.2%
- Turnout
- — → —