Himachal Vikash Congress on Kangra

State 2 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 1 OF 2 contested

HVC never finished second here

Strike rate

50%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 2 published candidatures

Best vote share52.30%in 1999

Worst vote share4.30%in 1998

Average vote share28.30% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1998

Last contested1999

Votes polled here2.91 Lacross all 2 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Himachal Vikash Congress vote share · a ringed point is a year they won this seat · a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 1977, 1980, 1984, 1989, 1991, 1996, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2024 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

2 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
1999	Lt. Col. Dhani Ram Shandil	2,64,002	52.30%	1	Won
1998	Madan Lal Tomar	26,981	4.30%	3	Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Bharatiya Janta Party Bharatiya Lok Dal Indian National Congress (I)Janta Party Independent Bahujan Samaj Party Janata Dal Communist Party Of India Aam Aadmi Party Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Janta Party (SECULAR)Lok Dal Doordarshi Party Jharkhand Party Indian Congress (SOCIALIST)Janata Dal (Secular)Lok Jan Shakti Party Navbharat Ekta Dal Akhil Bhartiya Parivar Party Nationalist Congress Party Shiv Sena Himachal Janta Party Himachal Jan Kranti Party Rashtrawadi Sena Rashtriya Devbhumi Party Rashtriya Samaj Dal (R)Swabhiman Party Himachal Swabhiman Party Samajwadi Party Bahujan Mukti Party