Constituency
57. Banjar
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-BANJAR
BJP 46.9%won by 5.0%INC 41.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 5.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.8% between them, down from 96.8% — 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
54,813
Margin
2,735
4.99%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1KARAN SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP25,69646.9%
- 2SATYA PRAKASH THAKURIndian National Congress · INC22,96141.9%
- 3DALIP SINGHHVC · HVC5,4399.9%
- 4NARESH KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5501.0%
- 5PREM SINGHAIRJP · AIRJP1040.2%
- 6GAGAN SINGHIndependent · IND630.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +9.1%
- BJP share
- 46.3% → 46.9%
- INC share
- 50.5% → 41.9%
- Turnout
- — → —