Constituency
51. Banikhet
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-BANIKHET
INC 49.1%won by 0.9%BJP 48.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.7% to 0.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.3% of the vote between them, up from 83.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 421 votes (0.92%) — among the closest results anywhere.
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
45,851
Margin
421
0.92%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1ASHA KUMARIIndian National Congress · INC22,50949.1%
- 2RENU CHADHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,08848.2%
- 3D.R. NIRDOSHCommunist Party of India · CPI9632.1%
- 4HEM RAJHVC · HVC2910.6%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −12.8%
- INC share
- 48.5% → 49.1%
- BJP share
- 34.8% → 48.2%
- Turnout
- — → —