Constituency
15. Pachhad
Community mirrorHimachal Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
HP-PACHHAD
INC 64.5%won by 38.3%BJP 26.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 19.3% to 38.3%.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
37,513
Margin
14,376
38.32%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1GANGU RAM MUSAFIRIndian National Congress · INC24,20864.5%
- 2KALI DASS KASHYAPBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,83226.2%
- 3SUBHASH CHANDHVC · HVC3,4739.3%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +19.1%
- INC share
- 57.5% → 64.5%
- BJP share
- 38.2% → 26.2%
- Turnout
- — → —