Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Election 2017

Highlights

1. NO OF CONSTITUENCIES

TYPE OF CONSTITUENCY	GEN	SC	ST	TOTAL
NO OF CONSTITUENCIES	48	17	3	68

2. NO OF CONTESTANTS

NO. OF CONTESTANTS IN A CONSTITUENCY	1	2	3	4	5	6-10	11-15	Above 15
NO. OF SUCH CONSTITUENCIES	0	1	11	21	15	19	1	0

TOTAL CONTESTANTS IN FRAY : 338
AVERAGE CONTESTANTS PER CONSTITUENCY : 4
MINIMUM CONTESTANTS IN A CONSTITUENCY : 2
MAXIMUM CONTESTANTS IN A CONSTITUENCY : 12

3. ELECTORS

	MALE	FEMALE	THIRD GENDER	TOTAL
i. NO. OF ELECTORS (Including Service Electors)	2568759	2457168	14	5025941
ii. NO. OF ELECTORS WHO VOTED AT POLLING STATIONS	1813147	1914578	2	3727727
iii. POLLING PERCENTAGE	70.58 %	77.92 %	14%	74.17 %

4. NO. OF VALID VOTES (EVM Valid+Postal Valid): 3750426
5. NO. OF VOTES REJECTED (Postal): 12085
6. NO. OF VOTES NOT RETRIEVED FROM EVM,TEST VOTES, REJECTED VOTES DUE TO OTHER REASON AND NOTA VOTES: 35665
7. NO. OF POLLING STATIONS: 7525
8. AVERAGE NO. OF ELECTORS PER POLLING STATION : 668

9. PERFORMANCE OF CONTESTING CANDIDATES

	MALE	FEMALE	THIRD GENDER	TOTAL
i. NO. OF CONTESTANTS	319	19	0	338
ii. ELECTED	64	4	0	68
iii. FORFEITED DEPOSITS	186	11	0	197

Participating Political Parties

ABBREVIATION	PARTY
NATIONAL PARTIES
1 . BJP	Bharatiya Janata Party
2 . BSP	Bahujan Samaj Party
3 . CPI	Communist Party of India
4 . CPM	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
5 . INC	Indian National Congress
6 . NCP	Nationalist Congress Party
STATE PARTIES - OTHER STATES
7 . AIFB	All India Forward Bloc
8 . SP	Samajwadi Party
REGISTERED(Unrecognised) PARTIES
9 . ALIMRD	All India Manavadhikar Rajnaitik Dal
10 . BHLJVP	Bhartiya Himachal Jan Vikas Party
11 . BMUP	Bahujan Mukti Party
12 . JanSP	Janral Samaj Party
13 . LOGAP	Lok Gathbandhan Party
14 . NED	Navbharat Ekta Dal
15 . RADM	Rashtriya Azad Manch
16 . RSHP	Rashtravadi Pratap Sena
17 . SAKAP	Samaj Adhikar Kalyan Party
18 . SWAP	Swabhiman Party
INDEPENDENTS
19 . IND	Independent
20 . NOTA	None of the Above

Successful Candidates

CONSTITUENCY	WINNER	SEX	PARTY
1 Churah (SC)	Hans Raj	M	BJP
2 Bharmour (ST)	Jia Lal	M	BJP
3 Chamba	Pawan Nayyar	M	BJP
4 Dalhousie	Asha Kumari	F	INC
5 Bhattiyat	Bikram Singh Jaryal	M	BJP
6 Nurpur	Rakesh Pathania	M	BJP
7 Indora (SC)	Reeta Devi	F	BJP
8 Fatehpur	Sujan Singh Pathania	M	INC
9 Jawali	Arjun Singh	M	BJP
10 Dehra	Hoshyar Singh	M	IND
11 Jaswan-Pragpur	Bikram Singh	M	BJP
12 Jawalamukhi	Ramesh Chand Dhawala	M	BJP
13 Jaisinghpur (SC)	Ravinder Kumar	M	BJP
14 Sullah	Vipin Singh Parmar	M	BJP
15 Nagrota	Arun Kumar	M	BJP
16 Kangra	Pawan Kumar Kajal	M	INC
17 Shahpur	Sarveen Choudhary	F	BJP
18 Dharamshala	Kishan Kapoor	M	BJP
19 Palampur	Ashish Butail	M	INC
20 Baijnath (SC)	Mulkh Raj	M	BJP
21 Lahaul & Spiti (ST)	Dr. Ram Lal Markanda	M	BJP
22 Manali	Govind Singh Thakur	M	BJP
23 Kullu	Sunder Singh Thakur	M	INC
24 Banjar	Surender Shourie	M	BJP
25 Anni (SC)	Kishori Lal	M	BJP
26 Karsog (SC)	Hira Lal	M	BJP
27 Sundernagar	Rakesh Kumar	M	BJP
28 Nachan (SC)	Vinod Kumar	M	BJP
29 Seraj	Jai Ram Thakur	M	BJP
30 Darang	Jawahar Thakur	M	BJP
31 Jogindernagar	Prakash Rana	M	IND
32 Dharampur	Mahender Singh	M	BJP
33 Mandi	Anil Sharma	M	BJP
34 Balh (SC)	Inder Singh	M	BJP
35 Sarkaghat	Inder Singh	M	BJP
36 Bhoranj (SC)	Kamlesh Kumari	F	BJP
37 Sujanpur	Rajinder Rana	M	INC
38 Hamirpur	Narinder Thakur	M	BJP
39 Barsar	Inder Dutt Lakhanpal	M	INC
40 Nadaun	Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu	M	INC
41 Chintpurni (SC)	Balbir Singh	M	BJP
42 Gagret	Rajesh Thakur	M	BJP
43 Haroli	Mukesh Agnihotri	M	INC
44 Una	Satpal Singh Raizada	M	INC
45 Kutlehar	Virender Kanwar	M	BJP
46 Jhanduta (SC)	Jeet Ram Katwal	M	BJP
47 Ghumarwin	Rajinder Garg	M	BJP
48 Bilaspur	Subhash Thakur	M	BJP
49 Sri Naina Deviji	Ram Lal Thakur	M	INC
50 Arki	Virbhadra Singh	M	INC
51 Nalagarh	Lakhvinder Singh Rana	M	INC
52 Doon	Paramjeet Singh	M	BJP
53 Solan (SC)	Dr. (Col.) Dhani Ram Shandil	M	INC
54 Kasauli (SC)	Rajiv Saizal	M	BJP
55 Pachhad (SC)	Suresh Kumar Kashyap	M	BJP
56 Nahan	Dr. Rajeev Bindal	M	BJP
57 Sri Renukaji (SC)	Vinay Kumar	M	INC
58 Paonta Sahib	Sukh Ram	M	BJP
59 Shillai	Harshwardhan Chauhan	M	INC
60 Chopal	Balbir Singh Verma	M	BJP
61 Theog	Rakesh Singha	M	CPM
62 Kasumpti	Anirudh Singh	M	INC
63 Shimla	Suresh Bhardwaj	M	BJP
64 Shimla Rural	Vikramaditya Singh	M	INC
65 Jubbal-Kotkhai	Narinder Bragta	M	BJP
66 Rampur (SC)	Nand Lal	M	INC
67 Rohru (SC)	Mohan Lal Brakta	M	INC
68 Kinnaur (ST)	Jagat Singh Negi	M	INC

Partywise Summary

PARTY NAME	SEATS
Bharatiya Janata Party	44
Communist Party Of India (Marxist)	1
Independent	2
Indian National Congress	21

Performance of Political Parties