Constituency
19. Palampur
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh · Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 2017
HP-PALAMPUR
INC 47.9%won by 8.5%BJP 39.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.4% to 8.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.3% of the vote between them, up from 80.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
69,809
Turnout
72.5%
Valid votes
50,608
Margin
4,324
8.54%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1ASHISH BUTAILIndian National Congress · INC24,25247.9%
- 2INDU GOSWAMIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,92839.4%
- 3PARVEEN KUMARIndependent · IND3,1986.3%
- 4BAINI PARSHADIndependent · IND1,7603.5%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4350.9%
- 6LEKH RAJCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3900.8%
- 7SURESH KUMARIndependent · IND2630.5%
- 8BAL MUKUNDBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2130.4%
- 9KAPOOR CHAND CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND1690.3%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −10.8%
- INC share
- 50.1% → 47.9%
- BJP share
- 30.7% → 39.4%
- Turnout
- 72.6% → 72.5%