Constituency
50. Arki
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh · Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 2012
HP-ARKI
BJP 30.1%won by 3.6%INC 26.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.4% to 3.6%.
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 15.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.6% between them, down from 77.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
77,927
Turnout
73.4%
Valid votes
57,190
Margin
2,075
3.63%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1GOVIND RAM SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,21130.1%
- 2SANJAYIndian National Congress · INC15,13626.5%
- 3AMAR CHAND PALIndependent · IND10,47718.3%
- 4BHAGAT SINGH BAHLWALNationalist Congress Party · NCP7,51513.1%
- 5RAM KRISHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,9815.2%
- 6AHSA PARIHARIndependent · IND1,7543.1%
- 7GURDAS RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5751.0%
- 8VIJAY SINGHIndependent · IND4560.8%
- 9PAWAN KUMARIndependent · IND4300.8%
- 10BRIJ LALH · H4130.7%
- 11RAJ KUMARIIndependent · IND2420.4%
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
- −25.7%
- BJP share
- 45.7% → 30.1%
- INC share
- 16.3% → 26.5%
- Turnout
- — → 73.4%