Constituency
56. Kulu
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 2003
HP-KULU
INC 33.7%won by 11.4%IND 22.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 47.8% to 33.7% of the vote here (−14.1%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 22.3% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.0% between them, down from 95.7% — 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
63,941
Margin
7,270
11.37%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1RAJ KRISHAN GOURIndian National Congress · INC21,54733.7%
- 2GOVIND SINGH THAKURIndependent · IND14,27722.3%
- 3KARAN SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,03320.4%
- 4DHARAM VIRIndependent · IND12,95320.3%
- 5MASTER JAWAHAR LALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,3842.2%
- 6CHARAN DASSSamajwadi Party · SP7471.2%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −36.4%
- INC share
- 47.8% → 33.7%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 22.3%
- Turnout
- — → —