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8. Simla

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Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 2007

HP-SIMLA

BJP 38.4%won by 8.0%CPM 30.4%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 8.0%.

  • BJP vote shareBJP went from 29.4% to 38.4% of the vote here (+9.0%).
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
32,408
Margin
2,588
7.99%

Candidates

8 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1SURESH BHARDWAJBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,44338.4%
  2. 2SANJAY CHAUHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,85530.4%
  3. 3HARBHAJAN SINGH BHAJJIIndian National Congress · INC8,33025.7%
  4. 4VED PRAKASHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,3374.1%
  5. 5SURENDER RAJPUTIndependent · IND1600.5%
  6. 6RAJESH SHARMALoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP1510.5%
  7. 7MADAN SINGH RANAIndependent · IND940.3%
  8. 8LIAQUAT ALIIndependent · IND380.1%

Since 2003

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
BJPflipped
BJP–CPM swing
+10.1%
BJP share
29.4% → 38.4%
CPM share
31.5% → 30.4%
Turnout
— → —
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