Constituency
43. Baijnath
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-BAIJNATH
INC 43.8%won by 2.5%BJP 41.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.5% to 2.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.2% between them, down from 95.8% — 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
35,774
Margin
902
2.52%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SANT RAMIndian National Congress · INC15,68443.8%
- 2DULO RAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,78241.3%
- 3KISHORI LALHVC · HVC4,91113.7%
- 4DHARAM CHANDSamajwadi Party · SP1380.4%
- 5SUBHASH THAKURAIRJP · AIRJP1330.4%
- 6GIAN CHANDJanata Dal · JD1260.4%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −12.0%
- INC share
- 55.1% → 43.8%
- BJP share
- 40.7% → 41.3%
- Turnout
- — → —