Constituency
18. Dharamshala
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh · Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 2017
HP-DHARAMSHALA
BJP 45.7%won by 5.3%INC 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 5.3%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 34.1% to 45.7% of the vote here (+11.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.1% of the vote between them, up from 78.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.5% to 76.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
74,863
Turnout
76.2%
Valid votes
57,013
Margin
2,997
5.26%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1KISHAN KAPOORBharatiya Janata Party · BJP26,05045.7%
- 2SUDHIR SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC23,05340.4%
- 3RAVINDER RANAIndependent · IND2,1273.7%
- 4PANKAJ KUMAR (PANKU)Independent · IND1,7263.0%
- 5KAMAL KUMARIndependent · IND1,6552.9%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA5250.9%
- 7PAWAN CHOUDHARYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4710.8%
- 8ASHWANI KAJALBMUP · BMUP3070.5%
- 9DIGVIJAY PURIIndependent · IND2850.5%
- 10VIKAS CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND2810.5%
- 11ANUP DHIMANIndependent · IND2730.5%
- 12NISHA KATOCHSWAP · SWAP1330.2%
- 13SUBHASH CHAND SHUKLAIndependent · IND1270.2%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +15.8%
- BJP share
- 34.1% → 45.7%
- INC share
- 44.6% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- 73.7% → 76.2%