Himachal Pradesh

The Shimla Rural constituency is a key constituency in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly election 2022. The seat was held by former chief minister Virbhadra Singh ...

Himachal Pradesh witnessed an intense campaign with BJP attempting to return to power for a second consecutive term and Congress backing on its '10 guarantees' that the party listed out in its manifesto. Polling for 68 assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh was held on November 12, with the state recording a 75.6 per cent turnout. The chief minister also took a stroll on Mall Road. If a party wins 35 seats, they will form the government in Himachal Pradesh. BJP has pitted state spokesperson Ram Kumar against him. BJP has fielded Ravi Mehta from the seat. Himachal Pradesh has not returned any incumbent government to power after 1985, a trend the ruling BJP, powered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personalised campaign, hopes to break. Sujanpur: Congress has again fielded Rajinder Singh Rana who defeated former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal in the 2017 elections. In Shillai, four candidates are in the fray for the assembly election – BJP's Baldev Singh, Congress's Harshwardhan Chauhan, AAP's Naathu Ram Chauhan, and RDP's Suresh Kumar. In the first 30 minutes, postal ballot papers were counted and then counting of votes for electronic voting machines (EVMs) commenced at 8.30 am. The ruling BJP is seeking a second term in Himachal Pradesh, aiming to break the state's streak of not electing the incumbent government to power twice. In the 2017 assembly elections, the BJP had won 44 seats and the Congress 21, with one seat going to CPI-M, and two to independent candidates.

Himachal Pradesh Election Results 2022: The outgoing Himachal Chief Minister Jairam Thakur won by over 38000 votes while one of the chief candidates for the ...

The Congress had campaigned extensively in Himachal Pradesh, urging voters to maintain the tradition of voting out the incumbent.

Himachal Pradesh: People gave Congress mandate, there is no need to fear, says Pratibha Virbhadra Singh · Himachal Pradesh election results: Congress wins 40 ...

Himachal Pradesh election results explained: The failure of the leadership will be the message that would be coming from the BJP camp – Jai Ram Thakur, ...

But the party candidates failed to win many of them, said a party leader. “In around 20 seats, the national leaders did not pay any heed to the requests of the state leadership,” said a source. If the trends turn out to be results, it will be seen as the reflection of a sentiment against the BJP in the state and the yearning for change across the state. There are about 2.5 lakh government employees in the state, and out of them 1.5 lakh are covered under the New Pension Scheme. Many voters had pointed out that Thakur was not able to find his feet in the state unit which has witnessed a tussle between the Nadda camp and those close to Prem Kumar Dhumal. A source close to Thakur blamed the national leadership’s strategies to keep out a number of “party leaders who worked hard with Thakur for five years” in the ticket distribution.

The victory is important for the Congress for the simple reason that it gives the party a third state to govern.

In a state that also sends a high number of jawans to the Indian army, and was a site of major protests when the Agnipath scheme was announced, there was also a level of disillusionment and discontentment arising from the scheme’s implications for the young. All of this means that the party will have to both retain its organisational coherence and deliver reasonably competent governance if it wants to live up to the mandate it has received. Taken together , it is clear that while the mandate may not be a ringing endorsement of the Congress and the election was competitive, it does mark a shift away from the BJP. In a state with 250,000 government employees, the Congress’s promise of restoring the old pension scheme — where the government took care of the entire amount as opposed to the new scheme which involves both employee and government contribution — struck a chord. One must be cautious in extrapolating a big political message from the Himachal elections for there is a clear disjunct between the difference in the vote share between the two parties and the difference in the number of seats. [In fact, a defeat would have been the surprise.](https://www.hindustantimes.com/elections/assembly-election-results-2022-live-updates-gujarat-and-himachal-pradesh-constituency-wise-counting-updates-bjp-aap-congress-election-news-today-101670460513692.html)

Congress supporters offer sweets to party leader Pawan Khera celebrating the party's lead in Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections, at AICC headquarters in ...

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The State repeats its history of voting against incumbents.

In Hamripur district, Sanjeev Kumar fought as a BJP rebel in the Barsar constituency, which the Congress won. Among the important election promises is implementation of the old pension scheme which is significant with government employees forming a significant chunk of the opinion makers in the State. The Congress has called for a meeting of the newly-elected MLAs.

The Congress secured 43.90 per cent vote share as it wrested Himachal Pradesh from the BJP, winning 40 seats in the 68-member Assembly in the hill state ...

In the 2017 state elections, the BJP had won 44 seats, the Congress 21, the CPI(M) one and Independents two. Himachal Pradesh has not voted any incumbent government back to power since 1985. The BJP had then got 48.8 per cent votes, the Congress 41.7 per cent, Independents 6.3 per cent and the CPI(M) had got 1.5 per cent, while NOTA attracted 0.9 per cent votes. [Himachal Pradesh elections: Congress secures 43.9 per cent vote share, BJP close behind with 43 per cent, AAP gets only 1.1 per cent](/news/himachal/himachal-pradesh-elections-cong-secures-43-90-pc-vote-share-bjp-close-behind-with-43-pc-aap-received-1-10pc-459189) The AAP received 1.10 per cent votes, the CPI-M 0.66 per cent, the BSP 0.35 per cent, and Independents and others got 10.39 per cent, while 0.59 per cent went to NOTA. The BJP and the Congress contested on all 68 constituencies, while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) fielded its candidates on 67 seats, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on 53 and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on 11 seats.

Himachal Pradesh has not voted any incumbent government to power since 1985. In the 68-member Assembly, a party needs 35 members for majority.

The counting of votes for the 68-member assembly began at 8 am. He also thanked Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and general secretary organisation K C Venugopal for their cooperation in poll preparations. But we respect the mandate," Thakur said before resigning. [Himachal Pradesh Congress](/topic/himachal-pradesh-congress)chief Pratibha Singh, the wife of late Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, hailed the party's win in the assembly elections, saying the party MLAs will sit and decide on the chief ministerial pick. Himachal Pradesh has not voted any incumbent government to power since 1985. The BJP's campaign in Himachal saw a special focus on women and youth, with the party rolling out a standalone manifesto for women for the first time in the state's history. AICC in charge of Himachal Pradesh Rajeev Shukla said the party was happy that it is getting an opportunity to form the government in the state and asserted that it will do everything to fulfil the 10 guarantees made to the people of the state and would provide better governance to people. While the BJP was celebrating its stupendous victory in Gujarat, Prime Minister Modi also thanked the voters of the hill state for their affection and support to the party and said it will keep working to fulfil the aspirations of the state and raise people's issues. Former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh's son and sitting Congress MLA from Shimla (Rural) Vikramaditya Singh retained his seat by defeating his nearest rival Ravi Kumar Mehta of the BJP by 13,860 votes. The Congress has convened a meeting of all its newly-elected MLAs in Himachal Pradesh in Shimla on Friday and the meet is likely to pass a resolution authorising the Congress president to elect the CLP leader. [Congress](/topic/congress)on Thursday wrested [Himachal Pradesh](/topic/himachal-pradesh)from the [BJP](/topic/bjp)winning 40 seats in the 68-member Assembly in the hill state which maintained its tradition of not voting any incumbent government to power since 1985. The Congress' vote share was 43.9 per cent and the BJP's was 43 per cent - a gap of less than one per cent which was highlighted by both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief J P Nadda in their address to party workers in Delhi after the poll results were declared.

While Congress's final tally sat comfortably at 40, five more than the majority mark in the 68-member state assembly, the overall difference in vote share ...

BJP candidate Inder Singh managed to win the Balh constituency by a margin of 1,307 votes. In Bhoranj, Congress candidate Suresh Kumar won by just 60 votes. BJP candidate Bikram Singh won the Jaswan-Pragpur seat by 1,789 votes. BJP's Randhir Sharma won the Sri Naina Deviji constituency by 171 votes. The Congress’s Himachal Pradesh unit chief Pratibha Singh, former state president Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu and outgoing Congress Legislature Party leader Mukesh Agnihotri were being seen as front-runners for the chief minister’s post. Jamwal received 30,988 votes while rival Thakur garnered 30,712 votes.

The difference in the number of votes received by the candidates of the two parties in Bhoranj, Sujanpur, Darang, Bilaspur, Sri Naina Devi, Rampur, Shillai, ...

The Himachal Pradesh assembly election results came as a relief to the battered Congress, as several candidates won by razor-thin margins.

The negligible presence of Muslims and the absence of any single dominant political caste are, inter alia, factors responsible for the Bharatiya Janata ...

During the meet the MLAs are likely to pass a one-line resolution authorising Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to decide the CLP leader.