Constituency
63. Shimla
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh · Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 2017
HP-SHIMLA
BJP 43.2%won by 5.9%IND 37.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.9% to 5.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.6% of the vote between them, up from 69.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.1% to 64.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
50,424
Turnout
64.3%
Valid votes
32,403
Margin
1,903
5.87%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1SURESH BHARDWAJBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,01243.2%
- 2HARISH JANARTHAIndependent · IND12,10937.4%
- 3SANJAY CHAUHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,0479.4%
- 4HARBHAJAN SINGH BHAJJIIndian National Congress · INC2,6808.3%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3221.0%
- 6VIRENDER KUMARIndependent · IND1190.4%
- 7DR. KISHORI LAL SHARMASWAP · SWAP1140.4%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–IND swing
- −25.1%
- BJP share
- 35.6% → 43.2%
- IND share
- 4.6% → 37.4%
- Turnout
- 59.2% → 64.3%