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165. Hamirpur

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Himachal Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-HAMIRPUR

BJP 60.5%won by 23.3%INC 37.3%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.3% to 23.3%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.8% of the vote between them, up from 88.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 11.8% to 59.3%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
9,37,500
Turnout
59.3%
Valid votes
5,55,440
Margin
1,29,247
23.27%

Candidates

7 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1Suresh ChandelBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,36,17260.5%
  2. 2Thakur Ram LalIndian National Congress · INC2,06,92537.3%
  3. 3Chaudhary Gian ChandBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,5121.2%
  4. 4Yashpal SharmaIndependent · IND2,3020.4%
  5. 5Gopi Chand AttariIndependent · IND2,2950.4%
  6. 6Ajit Kumar (Chintpurni)Nationalist Congress Party · NCP9210.2%
  7. 7Prahlad BhagatIndependent · IND3130.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–INC swing
+11.0%
BJP share
50.5% → 60.5%
INC share
38.2% → 37.3%
Turnout
71.1% → 59.3%
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