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HIMACHAL PRADESH · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Karishan Datt Sultanpuri

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

42,025 6.6 pp

votes

over Virender Kashyap (BJP)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors9,09,670

Votes polled6,34,282

Turnout69.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.85 L53.3% of electorate

Female electors4.24 L46.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 875females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Karishan Datt Sultanpuri	INC	3,07,861	48.50%
2	Virender Kashyap	BJP	2,65,836	41.90%
3	Madan Lal Tomar	HVC	26,981	4.30%
4	Chet Ram	CPI	13,440	2.10%
5	Ishwar Kalyan	JD	10,219	1.60%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,945, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 624,337 · NOTA n/a · published 634,282 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998