Constituency
8. Ambala Cantonment
Community mirrorHaryana Assembly Election, 1987
HR-AMBALA-CANTONMENT
BJP 48.6%won by 17.2%INC 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 17.2%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 20.1% to 48.6% of the vote here (+28.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.9% of the vote between them, up from 56.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
46,248
Margin
7,972
17.24%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BJP- 1SUSHMA SWARAJ (W)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,47348.6%
- 2RAM DASS DHAMIJAIndian National Congress · INC14,50131.4%
- 3BRIJ ANANDIndependent · IND7,57416.4%
- 4VIJAY PALIndependent · IND5501.2%
- 5NARESH KUMARIndependent · IND4831.0%
- 6BALBIR KAUR (W)Independent · IND1800.4%
- 7SURESH KUMARIndependent · IND1660.4%
- 8MANGAT RAMIndependent · IND1240.3%
- 9MADAN LALLIndependent · IND660.1%
- 10DHARAM SINGHIndependent · IND530.1%
- 11HARBANS LALLIndependent · IND440.1%
- 12RAGHUBIR SINGHIndependent · IND340.1%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +33.1%
- BJP share
- 20.1% → 48.6%
- INC share
- 35.9% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —