Constituency
16. Kangra
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh · Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 2017
HP-KANGRA
INC 43.7%won by 10.6%BJP 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 27.9% to 43.7% of the vote here (+15.8%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.8% of the vote between them, up from 56.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.1% to 77.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
75,899
Turnout
77.0%
Valid votes
58,466
Margin
6,208
10.62%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PAWAN KUMAR KAJALIndian National Congress · INC25,54943.7%
- 2SANJAY CHAUDHARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,34133.1%
- 3DR. RAJESH SHARMAIndependent · IND11,80520.2%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA6561.1%
- 5COL.(RET.) KULDIP SINGHLOGAP · LOGAP4820.8%
- 6RAVI CHANDNationalist Congress Party · NCP4080.7%
- 7VIJAY KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2250.4%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +5.9%
- INC share
- 27.9% → 43.7%
- BJP share
- 23.2% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- 73.9% → 77.0%