Constituency
34. Balh
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh · Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 2012
HP-BALH
INC 39.5%won by 6.1%BJP 33.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.7% to 6.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- 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
65,451
Turnout
77.6%
Valid votes
50,768
Margin
3,116
6.14%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1PRAKASH CHAUDHARYIndian National Congress · INC20,04339.5%
- 2INDER SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,92733.3%
- 3MAHANT RAMIndependent · IND9,02317.8%
- 4SANJAY KUMAR SUREHALIIndependent · IND2,4874.9%
- 5PARAS RAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6001.2%
- 6NETAR SINGHHaryana Lokhit Party · HLP5181.0%
- 7PARSHOTAM RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4881.0%
- 8PADAM SINGHH · H3430.7%
- 9SHAKUNTALA DEVIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC3390.7%
Since 2007
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +2.4%
- INC share
- 40.7% → 39.5%
- BJP share
- 37.0% → 33.3%
- Turnout
- — → 77.6%