Constituency
66. Joginder Nagar
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-JOGINDER-NAGAR
INC 37.2%won by 4.5%BJP 32.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.6% to 4.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.9% between them, down from 86.6% — 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
37,237
Margin
1,691
4.54%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1GULAB SINGHIndian National Congress · INC13,86237.2%
- 2GANGA RAM JAMWALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,17132.7%
- 3RATTAN LALHVC · HVC6,31517.0%
- 4KHAZAN SINGHIndependent · IND3,5629.6%
- 5DEWAN CHANDBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8622.3%
- 6KISHORI LALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1800.5%
- 7RAM CHANDRJP · RJP1760.5%
- 8SONU RAMIndependent · IND1090.3%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −17.0%
- INC share
- 54.1% → 37.2%
- BJP share
- 32.5% → 32.7%
- Turnout
- — → —