Constituency
53. Chamba
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-CHAMBA
INC 54.1%won by 14.2%BJP 39.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.0% to 14.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.9% between them, down from 99.2% — 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
36,179
Margin
5,151
14.24%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1HARSH MAHAJANIndian National Congress · INC19,56254.1%
- 2KEWAL KRISHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,41139.8%
- 3ASHOK KUMARHVC · HVC8982.5%
- 4CHANDER MANICommunist Party of India · CPI5821.6%
- 5D.P. MALHOTRAIndependent · IND2000.6%
- 6KISHORE KUMARIndependent · IND1890.5%
- 7NAND LALIndependent · IND1300.4%
- 8GULAB SINGShiv Sena · SHS1160.3%
- 9BUDHI SINGHIndependent · IND910.3%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −5.7%
- INC share
- 59.6% → 54.1%
- BJP share
- 39.6% → 39.8%
- Turnout
- — → —