Constituency
60. Chachiot
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-CHACHIOT
BJP 38.7%won by 14.6%INC 24.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 14.6%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 23.1% to 38.7% of the vote here (+15.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 62.9% of the vote between them, up from 51.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
39,588
Margin
5,779
14.60%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1JAI RAM THAKURBharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,33738.7%
- 2MOTI RAMIndian National Congress · INC9,55824.1%
- 3SHIV LALHVC · HVC9,55324.1%
- 4DAMODAR DASS THAKURIndependent · IND3,3068.4%
- 5JAWAHAR LALIndependent · IND6921.7%
- 6MAST RAM CHAUHANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5081.3%
- 7HET RAMAIRJP · AIRJP3380.9%
- 8GOVIND RAM THAKURIndependent · IND2960.7%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +20.2%
- BJP share
- 23.1% → 38.7%
- INC share
- 28.7% → 24.1%
- Turnout
- — → —