Constituency
149. Simla
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-SIMLA
INCI 51.0%won by 13.1%JNP 37.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 13.1%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 51.0% of the vote here (+51.0%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 37.9% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.9% between them, down from 96.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.2% to 51.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,23,977
Turnout
51.2%
Valid votes
2,68,286
Margin
35,134
13.10%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCI- 1KRISHAN DUTTINCI · INCI1,36,84151.0%
- 2BALAK RAMJanata Party · JNP1,01,70737.9%
- 3VIRENDER KASHYAPJNPS · JNPS28,34710.6%
- 4SURENDER SINGH BANOLTAIndependent · IND1,3910.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–JNP swing
- +13.1%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 51.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 37.9%
- Turnout
- 57.4% → 51.2%