Constituency
38. Jaswan
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-JASWAN
INC 50.1%won by 19.6%BJP 30.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.9% to 19.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.5% between them, down from 89.2% — 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
29,856
Margin
5,863
19.64%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1VIPLOVE THAKURIndian National Congress · INC14,94450.1%
- 2BIKRAM SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,08130.4%
- 3RAMEL SINGHHVC · HVC5,21117.5%
- 4ASHOK KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4481.5%
- 5SITA RAMJanata Dal · JD1720.6%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −8.3%
- INC share
- 58.6% → 50.1%
- BJP share
- 30.7% → 30.4%
- Turnout
- — → —