Kangra #3GEN

HIMACHAL PRADESH · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Shanta Kumar

BJP Bharatiya Janta Party

Margin

59,235 9.2 pp

votes

over Sat Mahajan (INC)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors8,96,183

Votes polled6,42,612

Turnout71.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.36 L48.7% of electorate

Female electors4.6 L51.3% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,053females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Shanta Kumar	BJP	3,34,684	52.10%
2	Sat Mahajan	INC	2,75,449	42.90%
3	Harnaik Singh	HVC	15,774	2.50%
4	Pratap Chand Chaudhary	JD	3,914	0.60%
5	Shakti Chand Chaudhary	SP	3,889	0.60%
6	Rachhpal Singh Mankotia	AIRJP	2,020	0.30%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,882, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 635,730 · NOTA n/a · published 642,612 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998