Constituency
3. Chamba
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh · Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 2012
HP-CHAMBA
BJP 38.6%won by 3.8%INC 34.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.6% to 3.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.5% between them, down from 96.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
68,283
Turnout
74.7%
Valid votes
51,022
Margin
1,934
3.79%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1B. K. CHAUHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,71438.6%
- 2PAWAN NAYYARIndian National Congress · INC17,78034.8%
- 3RAJ SINGHIndependent · IND10,81321.2%
- 4RATTAN CHANDCommunist Party of India · CPI1,3102.6%
- 5NOORDEEN NOORANIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4820.9%
- 6ANITA THAKURIndependent · IND3880.8%
- 7C.L.THAKURIndependent · IND3540.7%
- 8RUMESH KUMARSamajwadi Party · SP1810.4%
Since 2007
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −14.8%
- BJP share
- 57.4% → 38.6%
- INC share
- 38.8% → 34.8%
- Turnout
- — → 74.7%