Constituency
16. Kangra
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh · Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 2012
HP-KANGRA
IND 29.0%won by 1.1%INC 27.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 1.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 1.0% to 29.0% of the vote here (+28.0%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.9% between them, down from 68.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
68,243
Turnout
73.9%
Valid votes
50,457
Margin
563
1.12%
Candidates
8 contested · winner IND- 1PAWAN KAJALIndependent · IND14,63229.0%
- 2CHOUDHARY SURENDER KUMARIndian National Congress · INC14,06927.9%
- 3SANJAY CHAUDHARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,70023.2%
- 4DR. RAJESH SHARMAIndependent · IND7,96615.8%
- 5AMAN GULERIACommunist Party of India · CPI6361.3%
- 6RAM SWAROOP VERMAH · H5211.0%
- 7VIJAY KUMAR BHARIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5171.0%
- 8RAM NIWASH YADAVSamajwadi Party · SP4160.8%
Since 2007
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BSP
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +32.9%
- IND share
- 1.0% → 29.0%
- INC share
- 32.8% → 27.9%
- Turnout
- — → 73.9%