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HIMACHAL PRADESH · Lok Sabha · 2004

Won

Dhani Ram Shandil

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

1,08,180 20.6 pp

votes

over Hira Nand Kashyap (BJP)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors10,18,988

Votes polled5,25,998

Turnout51.6%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.38 L52.8% of electorate

Female electors4.81 L47.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 894females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Dhani Ram Shandil	INC	3,11,182	59.20%
2	Hira Nand Kashyap	BJP	2,03,002	38.60%
3	Som Nath	BSP	14,471	2.80%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is -2,657, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 528,655 · NOTA n/a · published 525,998 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2004