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title="India">India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_India" title="Administrative divisions of India">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/North_India" title="North India">North India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/States_and_union_territories_of_India" title="States and union territories of India">State</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Himachal_Pradesh" title="Himachal Pradesh">Himachal Pradesh</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Assembly constituencies</th><td class="infobox-data">17: <a href="/wiki/Churah_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Churah (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Churah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chamba_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chamba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Chamba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dalhousie_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dalhousie (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Dalhousie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhattiyat_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bhattiyat (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Bhattiyat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nurpur_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nurpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Nurpur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indora_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Indora (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Indora</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fatehpur,_Himachal_Pradesh_Assembly_constituency" title="Fatehpur, Himachal Pradesh Assembly constituency">Fatehpur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jawali_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jawali (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Jawali</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jawalamukhi_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jawalamukhi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Jawalamukhi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jaisinghpur_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jaisinghpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Jaisinghpur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sullah_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sullah (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Sullah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nagrota,_Himachal_Pradesh_Assembly_constituency" title="Nagrota, Himachal Pradesh Assembly constituency">Nagrota</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kangra_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kangra (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Kangra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shahpur,_Bihar_Assembly_constituency" title="Shahpur, Bihar Assembly constituency">Shahpur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dharamshala_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dharamshala (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Dharamshala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palampur_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Palampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Palampur</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baijnath_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baijnath (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Baijnath</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1952</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reservation</th><td class="infobox-data">None</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccf; padding: 4px;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament,_Lok_Sabha" title="Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha">Member of Parliament</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/18th_Lok_Sabha" title="18th Lok Sabha">18th Lok Sabha</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>Incumbent</b> <div> <b><a href="/wiki/Rajeev_Bhardwaj" title="Rajeev Bhardwaj">Rajeev Bhardwaj</a></b> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elected year</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/2024_Indian_general_election" title="2024 Indian general election">2024</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kishan_Kapoor" title="Kishan Kapoor">Kishan Kapoor</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Kangra Lok Sabha constituency</b> is one of the four <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a> (parliamentary) constituencies in <a href="/wiki/Himachal_Pradesh" title="Himachal Pradesh">Himachal Pradesh</a> state in northern <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-delimitation2008_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-delimitation2008-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ceo_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ceo-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Assembly_segments">Assembly segments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Assembly segments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kangra Lok Sabha constituency presently comprised the following 17 <a href="/wiki/Vidhan_Sabha" class="mw-redirect" title="Vidhan Sabha">Vidhan Sabha</a> (legislative assembly) segments:<sup id="cite_ref-ceo_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ceo-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>No </th> <th>Name </th> <th>District </th> <th>Member </th> <th colspan="2">Party </th></tr> <tr> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Churah_Assembly_constituency" title="Churah Assembly constituency">Churah</a> (SC) </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Chamba_district" title="Chamba district">Chamba</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hans_Raj_(politician)" title="Hans Raj (politician)">Hans Raj</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chamba_Assembly_constituency" title="Chamba Assembly constituency">Chamba</a> </td> <td>Niraj Nayyar </td> <td style="background-color:#19AAED"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dalhousie_Assembly_constituency" title="Dalhousie Assembly constituency">Dalhousie</a> </td> <td>Dhavinder Singh </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bhattiyat_Assembly_constituency" title="Bhattiyat Assembly constituency">Bhattiyat</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kuldeep_Singh_Pathania" title="Kuldeep Singh Pathania">Kuldeep Singh Pathania</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#19AAED"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>6 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nurpur_Assembly_constituency" title="Nurpur Assembly constituency">Nurpur</a> </td> <td rowspan="13"><a href="/wiki/Kangra_district" title="Kangra district">Kangra</a> </td> <td>Ranbir Singh </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>7 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indora_Assembly_constituency" title="Indora Assembly constituency">Indora</a> (SC) </td> <td>Malender Rajan </td> <td style="background-color:#19AAED"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>8 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fatehpur,_Himachal_Pradesh_Assembly_constituency" title="Fatehpur, Himachal Pradesh Assembly constituency">Fatehpur</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bhawani_Singh_Pathania" title="Bhawani Singh Pathania">Bhawani Singh Pathania</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#19AAED"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>9 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jawali_Assembly_constituency" title="Jawali Assembly constituency">Jawali</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chander_Kumar" title="Chander Kumar">Chander Kumar</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#19AAED"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>12 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jawalamukhi_Assembly_constituency" title="Jawalamukhi Assembly constituency">Jawalamukhi</a> </td> <td>Sanjay Rattan </td> <td style="background-color:#19AAED"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>13 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jaisinghpur_Assembly_constituency" title="Jaisinghpur Assembly constituency">Jaisinghpur</a> (SC) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yadvinder_Goma" title="Yadvinder Goma">Yadvinder Goma</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#19AAED"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>14 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sullah_Assembly_constituency" title="Sullah Assembly constituency">Sullah</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vipin_Singh_Parmar" title="Vipin Singh Parmar">Vipin Singh Parmar</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>15 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nagrota,_Himachal_Pradesh_Assembly_constituency" title="Nagrota, Himachal Pradesh Assembly constituency">Nagrota</a> </td> <td>Raghubir Singh Bali </td> <td style="background-color:#19AAED"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>16 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kangra_Assembly_constituency" title="Kangra Assembly constituency">Kangra</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pawan_Kumar_Kajal" title="Pawan Kumar Kajal">Pawan Kumar Kajal</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>17 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shahpur,_Himachal_Pradesh_Assembly_constituency" title="Shahpur, Himachal Pradesh Assembly constituency">Shahpur</a> </td> <td>Kewal Singh Pathania </td> <td style="background-color:#19AAED"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>18 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dharamshala_Assembly_constituency" title="Dharamshala Assembly constituency">Dharamshala</a> </td> <td>Sudhir Sharma </td> <td style="background-color:#FF9933"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>19 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Palampur_Assembly_constituency" title="Palampur Assembly constituency">Palampur</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ashish_Butail" title="Ashish Butail">Ashish Butail</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#19AAED"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>20 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Baijnath_Assembly_constituency" title="Baijnath Assembly constituency">Baijnath</a> (SC) </td> <td>Kishori Lal </td> <td style="background-color:#19AAED"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Members_of_Parliament">Members of Parliament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Members of Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Name<sup id="cite_ref-election1977_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-election1977-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-election1999_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-election1999-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-election2004_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-election2004-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-election2009_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-election2009-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-election2014_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-election2014-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-election2019_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-election2019-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th colspan="2">Party </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1951%E2%80%9352_Indian_general_election" title="1951–52 Indian general election">1952</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Hem_Raj" title="Hem Raj">Hem Raj</a> </td> <td rowspan="6" style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #19AAED;" data-sort-value="Indian National Congress"> </td> <td scope="row" rowspan="6" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/1957_Indian_general_election" title="1957 Indian general election">1957</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Daljit Singh </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1962_Indian_general_election" title="1962 Indian general election">1962</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Hem_Raj" title="Hem Raj">Hem Raj</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1967_Indian_general_election" title="1967 Indian general election">1967</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1971_Indian_general_election" title="1971 Indian general election">1971</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vikram_Chand_Mahajan" title="Vikram Chand Mahajan">Vikram Chand Mahajan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1977_Indian_general_election" title="1977 Indian general election">1977</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kanwar_Durga_Chand" title="Kanwar Durga Chand">Kanwar Durga Chand</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1F75FE;" data-sort-value="Janata Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Janata_Party" title="Janata Party">Janata Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1980_Indian_general_election" title="1980 Indian general election">1980</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vikram_Chand_Mahajan" title="Vikram Chand Mahajan">Vikram Chand Mahajan</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0EF4E1;" data-sort-value="Indian National Congress (I)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress_(I)" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian National Congress (I)">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1984_Indian_general_election" title="1984 Indian general election">1984</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chandresh_Kumari_Katoch" title="Chandresh Kumari Katoch">Chandresh Kumari Katoch</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #19AAED;" data-sort-value="Indian National Congress"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1989_Indian_general_election" title="1989 Indian general election">1989</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shanta_Kumar" title="Shanta Kumar">Shanta Kumar</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party"> </td> <td scope="row" rowspan="2" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1991_Indian_general_election" title="1991 Indian general election">1991</a> </td> <td>D. D. Khanoria </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1996_Indian_general_election" title="1996 Indian general election">1996</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sat_Mahajan" title="Sat Mahajan">Sat Mahajan</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #19AAED;" data-sort-value="Indian National Congress"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_Indian_general_election" title="1998 Indian general election">1998</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Shanta_Kumar" title="Shanta Kumar">Shanta Kumar</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party"> </td> <td scope="row" rowspan="2" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1999_Indian_general_election" title="1999 Indian general election">1999</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2004_Indian_general_election" title="2004 Indian general election">2004</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chander_Kumar" title="Chander Kumar">Chander Kumar</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #19AAED;" data-sort-value="Indian National Congress"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2009_Indian_general_election" title="2009 Indian general election">2009</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rajan_Sushant" title="Rajan Sushant">Rajan Sushant</a> </td> <td rowspan="4" style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party"> </td> <td scope="row" rowspan="4" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2014_Indian_general_election" title="2014 Indian general election">2014</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shanta_Kumar" title="Shanta Kumar">Shanta Kumar</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2019_Indian_general_election" title="2019 Indian general election">2019</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kishan_Kapoor" title="Kishan Kapoor">Kishan Kapoor</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Indian_general_election" title="2024 Indian general election">2024</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rajeev_Bhardwaj" title="Rajeev Bhardwaj">Rajeev Bhardwaj</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Election_results">Election results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Election results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2024">2024</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2024_Indian_general_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2024 Indian general elections">2024 Indian general elections</a>: Kangra<sup id="cite_ref-2024_Loksabha_Elections_Results_-_Kangra_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2024_Loksabha_Elections_Results_-_Kangra-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF9933; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Rajeev_Bhardwaj" title="Rajeev Bhardwaj">Rajeev Bhardwaj</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>632,793 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>61.03 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>10.09 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #19AAED; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Anand_Sharma" title="Anand Sharma">Anand Sharma</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,80,898 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.74 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>12.15 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #22409A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bahujan_Samaj_Party" title="Bahujan Samaj Party">BSP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Rekha Chaudhary </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,753 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.75 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.13 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">IND</a> </td> <td class="fn">Adv Sanjay Sharma </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,319 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.22 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">IND</a> </td> <td class="fn">Dr Kehkar Singh </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,178 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.21 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFFFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/None_of_the_above" title="None of the above">NOTA</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/None_of_the_Above" class="mw-redirect" title="None of the Above">None of the Above</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,372 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.61 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.51 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,51,895 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24.29 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>23.14 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,36,868 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">70.55 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>7.03 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF9933"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>10.99 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2019">2019</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2019"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2019_Indian_general_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2019 Indian general elections">2019 Indian general elections</a>: Kangra<sup id="cite_ref-election2019_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-election2019-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF9933; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Kishan_Kapoor" title="Kishan Kapoor">Kishan Kapoor</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>725,218 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>72.02 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>14.96 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #19AAED; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn">Pawan Kajal </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,47,595 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24.59 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>11.20 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #22409A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bahujan_Samaj_Party" title="Bahujan Samaj Party">BSP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Dr. Kehar Singh </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,866 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.88 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.14 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">IND</a> </td> <td class="fn">Dr. Sanjiv Guleria </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,573 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.45 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">IND</a> </td> <td class="fn">Prem Chand Vishwakarma </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,371 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.24 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFFFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/None_of_the_above" title="None of the above">NOTA</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/None_of_the_Above" class="mw-redirect" title="None of the Above">None of the Above</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,327 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.12 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.03 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,77,623 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.43 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>26.16 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,06,989 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">70.55 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>7.03 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF9933"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>14.96 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2014">2014</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2014"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2014_Indian_general_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Indian general elections">2014 Indian general elections</a>: Kangra<sup id="cite_ref-election2014_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-election2014-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF9933; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Shanta_Kumar" title="Shanta Kumar">Shanta Kumar</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>456,163 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>57.06 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>8.37 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #19AAED; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Chander_Kumar" title="Chander Kumar">Chander Kumar</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,86,091 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.79 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>9.76 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0072B0; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Aam_Aadmi_Party" title="Aam Aadmi Party">AAP</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Rajan_Sushant" title="Rajan Sushant">Dr. Rajan Sushant</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24,430 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.06 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #22409A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bahujan_Samaj_Party" title="Bahujan Samaj Party">BSP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Lal Hussain </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,949 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.74 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.19 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">IND.</a> </td> <td class="fn">Bhupinder Mehra </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,585 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.70 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.70 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFFFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/None_of_the_above" title="None of the above">NOTA</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/None_of_the_above" title="None of the above">None of the Above</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,704 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.09 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.09 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,70,072 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21.27 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>18.13 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,99,445 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">63.52 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>8.37 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF9933"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>8.37 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2009">2009</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2009"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2009_Indian_general_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2009 Indian general elections">2009 Indian general elections</a>: Kangra<sup id="cite_ref-election2009_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-election2009-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF9933; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Rajan_Sushant" title="Rajan Sushant">Dr. Rajan Sushant</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>322,254 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>48.69 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #19AAED; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Chander_Kumar" title="Chander Kumar">Chander Kumar</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,01,475 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45.55 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #22409A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bahujan_Samaj_Party" title="Bahujan Samaj Party">BSP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Col. Narinder Singh Pathania </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,745 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.93 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">IND.</a> </td> <td class="fn">Roshan Lal </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,283 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.25 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0093DD; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Lok_Janshakti_Party" title="Lok Janshakti Party">LJP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Keshab </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,720 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.17 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,779 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.14 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,61,847 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">55.15 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF9933"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2004">2004</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 2004"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" rowspan="1">Party </th> <th colspan="1" rowspan="1">Candidate Name </th> <th colspan="1" rowspan="1">Votes </th> <th colspan="1" rowspan="1">Votes % </th></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#19AAED"> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a></b> </td> <td><b>Chander Kumar</b> </td> <td><b>314,555</b> </td> <td><b>49.1%</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FF9933"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janta_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Bharatiya Janta Party">BJP</a> </td> <td>Shanta Kumar </td> <td>296,764 </td> <td>46.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#22409A"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bahujan_Samaj_Party" title="Bahujan Samaj Party">BSP</a> </td> <td>Lt. Col. Shakti Chand Chaudhary (Retd.) </td> <td>10,860 </td> <td>1.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#DCDCDC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">IND</a> </td> <td>Fakir Chand </td> <td>10,594 </td> <td>1.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FF2222"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Samajwadi_Party" title="Samajwadi Party">SP</a> </td> <td>Roshan Rana </td> <td>7,092 </td> <td>1.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#DCDCDC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">IND</a> </td> <td>Dhani Ram </td> <td>3,312 </td> <td>0.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">Majority </td> <td>17,791 </td> <td>2.8% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"><b>Turnout</b> </td> <td>6,40,345 </td> <td>62.0% </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_elections_1999">General elections 1999</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: General elections 1999"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1999_Indian_general_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="1999 Indian general elections">1999 Indian general elections</a>: Kangra </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF9933; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Shanta_Kumar" title="Shanta Kumar">Shanta Kumar</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>325,066 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>58.80% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #19AAED; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Sat_Mahajan" title="Sat Mahajan">Sat Mahajan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,24,324 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.58% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,00,742 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,52,860 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">59.57% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF9933"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_elections_1998">General elections 1998</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: General elections 1998"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1998_Indian_general_election" title="1998 Indian general election">1998 Indian general election</a>: Kangra </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF9933; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Shanta_Kumar" title="Shanta Kumar">Shanta Kumar</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>334,684 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>52.65% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #19AAED; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Sat_Mahajan" title="Sat Mahajan">Sat Mahajan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,75,449 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43.33% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">59,235 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,35,730 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">71.71% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF9933"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_elections_1996">General elections 1996</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: General elections 1996"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1996_Indian_general_election" title="1996 Indian general election">1996 Indian general election</a>: Kangra </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#19AAED; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Sat_Mahajan" title="Sat Mahajan">Sat Mahajan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>263,817 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.64% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF9933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Shanta_Kumar" title="Shanta Kumar">Shanta Kumar</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,26,293 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.58% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37,524 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,31,429 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">61.23% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #19AAED"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_elections_1991">General elections 1991</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: General elections 1991"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1991_Indian_general_election" title="1991 Indian general election">1991 Indian general election</a>: Kangra </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF9933; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>D. D. Khanoria </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>174,457 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>41.01% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #19AAED; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Chandresh_Kumari" class="mw-redirect" title="Chandresh Kumari">Chandresh Kumari</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,63,641 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.46% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #2E8B57; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Janata_Dal" title="Janata Dal">JD</a> </td> <td class="fn">Suresh Chaudhary </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">75,905 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.84% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,816 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,25,434 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">55.83% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF9933"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_elections_1989">General elections 1989</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: General elections 1989"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1989_Indian_general_election" title="1989 Indian general election">1989 Indian general election</a>: Kangra </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF9933; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Shanta_Kumar" title="Shanta Kumar">Shanta Kumar</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>235,147 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.33% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #19AAED; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Chandresh_Kumari" class="mw-redirect" title="Chandresh Kumari">Chandresh Kumari</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,75,943 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.66% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #2E8B57; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Janata_Dal" title="Janata Dal">JD</a> </td> <td class="fn">Vijai Singh Mankotia </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">74,983 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.77% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">59,204 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,07,577 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">69.58% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF9933"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_elections_1984">General elections 1984</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: General elections 1984"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1984_Indian_general_election" title="1984 Indian general election">1984 Indian general election</a>: Kangra </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#19AAED; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Chandresh_Kumari" class="mw-redirect" title="Chandresh Kumari">Chandresh Kumari</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>232,287 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>62.45% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF9933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sarvan Kumar </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,14,854 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30.88% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37,524 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,71,954 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">67.09% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #19AAED"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress_(I)" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian National Congress (I)">INC(I)</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_elections_1980">General elections 1980</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: General elections 1980"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1980_Indian_general_election" title="1980 Indian general election">1980 Indian general election</a>: Kangra </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0EF4E1; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress_(I)" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian National Congress (I)">INC(I)</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Vikram_Chand_Mahajan" title="Vikram Chand Mahajan">Vikram Chand Mahajan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>148,946 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>45.25% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #1F75FE; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Janata_Party" title="Janata Party">JP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sarvan Kumar Chaudhari </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,14,854 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30.88% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #06038D; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Janata_Party_(Secular)" title="Janata Party (Secular)">JP(S)</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Kanwar_Durga_Chand" title="Kanwar Durga Chand">Kanwar Durga Chand</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25,727 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.82% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30,930 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,29,129 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">63.99% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0EF4E1"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress_(I)" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian National Congress (I)">INC(I)</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Janata_Party" title="Janata Party">JP</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_elections_1977">General elections 1977</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: General elections 1977"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1977_Indian_general_election" title="1977 Indian general election">1977 Indian general election</a>: Kangra </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#1F75FE; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Janata_Party" title="Janata Party">JP</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Kanwar_Durga_Chand" title="Kanwar Durga Chand">Kanwar Durga Chand</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>157,832 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.17% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #19AAED; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Vikram_Chand_Mahajan" title="Vikram Chand Mahajan">Vikram Chand Mahajan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,18,828 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.03% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #f50222; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> </td> <td class="fn">Bansi Ram </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,709 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.29% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39,004 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,96,836 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">63.96% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #1F75FE"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Janata_Party" title="Janata Party">JP</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_elections_1971">General elections 1971</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: General elections 1971"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1971_Indian_general_election" title="1971 Indian general election">1971 Indian general election</a>: Kangra </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#19AAED; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Vikram_Chand_Mahajan" title="Vikram Chand Mahajan">Vikram Chand Mahajan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>111,276 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>65.97% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF9933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Jan_Sangh" class="mw-redirect" title="Bharatiya Jan Sangh">ABJS</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sarvan Kumar Chaudhari </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40,388 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23.94% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #f50222; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> </td> <td class="fn">Paras Ram </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,249 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.67% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30,930 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,68,680 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.57% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #19AAED"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_elections_1967">General elections 1967</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: General elections 1967"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1967_Indian_general_election" title="1967 Indian general election">1967 Indian general election</a>: Kangra </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#19AAED; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Hem_Raj" title="Hem Raj">Hem Raj</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>44,262 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>33.03% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF9933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Jan_Sangh" class="mw-redirect" title="Bharatiya Jan Sangh">ABJS</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sarvan Kumar Chaudhari </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38,860 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.00% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">M. Ram </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21,073 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.73% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,402 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,34,001 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">54.22% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #19AAED"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kangra_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kangra_district" title="Kangra district">Kangra district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_constituencies_of_the_Lok_Sabha" title="List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha">List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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