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Kangra #3GEN
Won
Sat Mahajan
INC Indian National CongressMargin
37,524 7.0 pp
votes
over Shanta Kumar (BJP)
The contest
Electors8,75,520
Votes polled5,36,078
Turnout61.2%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.26 L48.6% of electorate
Female electors4.5 L51.4% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,056females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat Mahajan | INC | 2,63,817 | 49.20% | |
| 2 | Shanta Kumar | BJP | 2,26,293 | 42.20% | |
| 3 | Rajan Sushant | RNP | 12,430 | 2.30% | |
| 4 | Hardayal Chaudhary | SP | 8,020 | 1.50% | |
| 5 | Amin Chand | BSP | 6,325 | 1.20% | |
| 6 | Jagat Ram | ICS | 3,417 | 0.60% | |
| 7 | Gulab Singh | SS | 1,951 | 0.40% | |
| 8 | Surender Bhararia | IND | 1,820 | 0.30% | |
| 9 | Pritam Chand Chaudhary | IND | 1,721 | 0.30% | |
| 10 | Piar Chand | IND | 1,609 | 0.30% | |
| 11 | Nirmala Devi | IND | 1,319 | 0.20% | |
| 12 | Harish Sharma Munna | IND | 1,060 | 0.20% | |
| 13 | Surender Kumar | IND | 738 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | Suresh Karki | IND | 533 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | Roshan Rana | IND | 376 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 4,649, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 531,429 · NOTA n/a · published 536,078 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
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