Constituency
17. Shahpur
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh · Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 2017
HP-SHAHPUR
BJP 38.4%won by 10.2%IND 28.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.9% to 10.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.6% between them, down from 90.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.6% to 75.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
80,097
Turnout
75.1%
Valid votes
60,139
Margin
6,147
10.22%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1SARVEEN CHOUDHARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP23,10438.4%
- 2MAJOR (RET.) VIJAI SINGH MANKOTIAIndependent · IND16,95728.2%
- 3KEWAL SINGH PATHANIAIndian National Congress · INC16,33327.2%
- 4RAMESH KUMARIndependent · IND1,1111.8%
- 5DESH RAJ CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND1,1081.8%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,0101.7%
- 7BANARSI DASS DOGRABahujan Samaj Party · BSP5160.9%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–IND swing
- −34.8%
- BJP share
- 48.4% → 38.4%
- IND share
- 3.4% → 28.2%
- Turnout
- 72.5% → 75.1%