Constituency
52. Rajnagar
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-RAJNAGAR
BJP 45.5%won by 9.4%INC 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 9.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.6% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
35,288
Margin
3,325
9.42%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1MOHAN LALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,06445.5%
- 2VIDYA DHARIndian National Congress · INC12,73936.1%
- 3NAND KUMARIndependent · IND4,98714.1%
- 4SUKH DEVCommunist Party of India · CPI7952.3%
- 5HEM RAJHVC · HVC5851.7%
- 6KARAM SINGHIndependent · IND1180.3%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +23.7%
- BJP share
- 42.9% → 45.5%
- INC share
- 57.1% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- — → —