Constituency
16. Kangra
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh · Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 2022
HP-KANGRA
BJP 55.6%won by 31.3%INC 24.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 31.3%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 33.1% to 55.6% of the vote here (+22.6%).
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
83,547
Turnout
75.8%
Valid votes
63,339
Margin
19,834
31.31%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1Pawan Kumar KajalBharatiya Janata Party · BJP35,23955.6%
- 2Surinder KumarIndian National Congress · INC15,40524.3%
- 3Kulbhash ChandIndependent · IND7,99412.6%
- 4Amit VermaIndependent · IND3,0334.8%
- 5Raj KumarAam Aadmi Party · AAP8661.4%
- 6NOTANOTA · NOTA4640.7%
- 7Vijay KumarBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3380.5%
Since 2017
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +41.9%
- BJP share
- 33.1% → 55.6%
- INC share
- 43.7% → 24.3%
- Turnout
- 77.0% → 75.8%