Simla #1GEN

HIMACHAL PRADESH · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Krishan Dutt

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

35,134 12.9 pp

votes

over Balak Ram (JP)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors5,23,977

Votes polled2,72,407

Turnout52.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors2.77 L52.9% of electorate

Female electors2.47 L47.1% of electorate

Sex ratio 891females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Krishan Dutt	INCI	1,36,841	50.20%
2	Balak Ram	JP	1,01,707	37.30%
3	Virender Kashyap	JPS	28,347	10.40%
4	Surender Singh Banolta	IND	1,391	0.50%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 4,121, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 268,286 · NOTA n/a · published 272,407 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980