Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Election 2022
Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Election 2022 was announced by the Election Commission of India on October 14, 2022, since its term was to expire on 08.01.2023. Election was held on all 68 seats out of which 17 are reserved for SCs and 3 for STs. There were 55,74,793 electors out of which 55,07,261 were general and 67,532 were service voters. 18+ electors attaining this age between January 1, 2022 and October 1, 2022 were 43,173. Number of PwD electors were 56,001, Third Gender 37, and 80+ senior citizens were 1,22,093. Number of polling stations were 7,881 compared to 7,525 in 2017, which was an increase of 4.73 per cent.Election Schedule
| Poll Events | Single Phase (All 68 ACs) | |||||||
| Date of issue of Gazette Notification | 17th October, 2022 (Monday) | |||||||
| Last date for making nominations | 25th October, 2022 (Tuesday) | |||||||
| Date for the scrutiny of nominations | 27th October, 2022 (Thursday) | |||||||
| Last date for the withdrawal of candidatures | 29th October, 2022 (Saturday) | |||||||
| Date of Poll | 12th November, 2022 (Saturday) | |||||||
| Date of Counting | 8th December, 2022 (Thursday) | |||||||
| Date before which the election shall be completed | 10th December, 2022 (Saturday) | |||||||
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 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 44 | 1 | 0 |
TOTAL CONTESTANTS IN A FRAY: 412
AVERAGE CONTESTANTS PER CONSTITUENCY: 6
MINIMUM CONTESTANTS IN A CONSTITUENCY: 3
MAXIMUM CONTESTANTS IN A CONSTITUENCY: 11
3.ELECTORS
| MALE | FEMALE | THIRD GENDER | TOTAL | |||||
| I. NO. OF ELECTORS (INCLUDING SERVICE ELECTORS) | 2854945 | 2737845 | 38 | 5592828 | ||||
| II. NO. OF ELECTORS WHO VOTED (EXCLUDING POSTAL VOTES) | 2020509 | 2101674 | 26 | 4122209 | ||||
| III. POLLING PERCENTAGE (EXCLUDING POSTAL BALLOTS) | 70.77 | 76.76 | 68.42 | 73.71 | ||||
4. NO. OF VALID VOTES (EVM VALID+POSTAT VALID): 4194774
5. NO. OF VOTES REJECTED (POSTAL): 18253
6. NO. OF TEST VOTES, REJECTED VOTES DUE TO OTHER REASON AND NOTA VOTES: 25385
7. NO. OF POLLING STATIONS: 7884
8. AVERAGE NO. OF ELECTORS PER POLLING STATION: 709
9.PERFORMANCE OF CONTESTING CANDIDATES
| MALE | FEMALE | THIRD GENDER | TOTAL | |||||
| I. NO. OF CONTESTANTS | 388 | 24 | 0 | 412 | ||||
| II. ELECTED 67 | 1 | 0 | 68 | |||||
| III. FORFEITED DEPOSITS | 247 | 14 | 0 | 261 | ||||
Political Parties Participated
| PARTY ABBREVIATION | PARTY | |||||||
| NATIONAL PARTIES | ||||||||
| 1. BJP | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||||||
| 2. BSP | Bahujan Samaj Party | |||||||
| 3. CPI | Communist Party Of India | |||||||
| 4. CPI(M) | Communist Party Of India (marxist) | |||||||
| 5. INC | Indian National Congress | |||||||
| STATE PARTIES - OTHER STATES | ||||||||
| 6. AAAP | Aam Aadmi Party | |||||||
| REGISTERED (Unrecognised) PARTIES | ||||||||
| 7. BVD | Bhartiya Veer Dal | |||||||
| 8. HCHLJP | Himachal Janta Party | |||||||
| 9. HIMJKP | Himachal Jan Kranti Party | |||||||
| 10. HSP | Hindu Samaj Party | |||||||
| 11. RSHTLKNTP | Rashtriya Lokneeti Party | |||||||
| 12. RTRYDVBHMP | Rashtriya Devbhumi Party | |||||||
| 13. SaSP | Sainik Samaj Party | |||||||
| 14. SWAP | Swabhiman Party | |||||||
| INDEPENDENTS | ||||||||
| 15. IND | Independent | |||||||
| 16. NOTA | None Of The Above | |||||||
Performance of Political Parties
| PARTY | SEATS CONTESTED | WON | FD | VALID VOTES POLLED | % VOTES POLLED | |||
| NATIONAL PARTIES | ||||||||
| 1. BJP | 68 | 25 | 0 | 1814530 | 43% | |||
| 2. BSP | 53 | 0 | 53 | 14613 | 0.35% | |||
| 3. CPI | 1 | 0 | 1 | 627 | 0.01% | |||
| 4. CPI(M) | 11 | 0 | 10 | 27817 | 0.66% | |||
| 5. INC | 68 | 40 | 1 | 1852504 | 43.9% | |||
| 201 | 65 | 65 | 3710091 | 87.92 | ||||
| STATE PARTIES - OTHER STATES | ||||||||
| 6. AAAP | 67 | 0 | 67 | 46270 | 1.1% | |||
| 67 | 0 | 67 | 46270 | 1.1 | ||||
| REGISTERED (Unrecognised) PARTIES | ||||||||
| 7. BVD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 159 | 0% | |||
| 8. HCHLJP | 1 | 0 | 1 | 187 | 0% | |||
| 9. HIMJKP | 6 | 0 | 6 | 1148 | 0.03% | |||
| 10. HSP | 3 | 0 | 3 | 848 | 0.02% | |||
| 11. RSHTLKNTP | 1 | 0 | 1 | 57 | 0% | |||
| 12. RTRYDVBHMP | 29 | 0 | 29 | 25861 | 0.61% | |||
| 13. SaSP | 1 | 0 | 1 | 195 | 0% | |||
| 14. SWAP | 3 | 0 | 3 | 685 | 0.02% | |||
| 45 | 0 | 45 | 29140 | 0.69 | ||||
| INDEPENDENTS | ||||||||
| 15. IND | 99 | 3 | 84 | 409273 | 9.7% | |||
| 99 | 3 | 84 | 409273 | 9.7 | ||||
| 16. NOTA | - | - | - | 24861 | 0.59% | |||
| - | - | - | 24861 | 0.59 | ||||
| Grand Total: | 412 | 68 | 261 | 4219635 | 100 | |||
Successful Candidates
| CONSTITUENCY | WINNER | SEX | PARTY | |||||
| 1 Churah (SC) | Hans Raj | M | BJP | |||||
| 2 Bharmour (ST) | Dr. Janak Raj | M | BJP | |||||
| 3 Chamba | Neeraj Nayar | M | INC | |||||
| 4 Dalhousie | D. S. Thakur | M | BJP | |||||
| 5 Bhattiyat | Kuldeep Singh Pathania | M | INC | |||||
| 6 Nurpur | Ranbir Singh (nikka) | M | BJP | |||||
| 7 Indora | (SC) Malender Rajan | M | INC | |||||
| 8 Fatehpur | Bhawani Singh Pathania | M | INC | |||||
| 9 Jawali | Chander Kumar | M | INC | |||||
| 10 Dehra | Hoshyar Singh | M | IND | |||||
| 11 Jaswan-Pragpur | Bikram Singh | M | BJP | |||||
| 12 Jawalamukhi | Sanjay Rattan | M | INC | |||||
| 13 Jaisinghpur | (SC) Yadvinder Goma | M | INC | |||||
| 14 Sullah | Vipin Singh Parmar | M | BJP | |||||
| 15 Nagrota | R.s. Bali | M | INC | |||||
| 16 Kangra | Pawan Kumar Kajal | M | BJP | |||||
| 17 Shahpur | Kewal Singh | M | INC | |||||
| 18 Dharamshala | Sudhir Sharma | M | INC | |||||
| 19 Palampur | Ashish Butail | M | INC | |||||
| 20 Baijnath (SC) | Kishori Lal | M | INC | |||||
| 21 Lahaul & Spiti (ST) | Ravi Thakur | M | INC | |||||
| 22 Manali | Bhuvneshwar Gaur | M | INC | |||||
| 23 Kullu | Sunder Singh Thakur | M | INC | |||||
| 24 Banjar | Surender Shourie | M | BJP | |||||
| 25 Anni (SC) | Lokender Kumar | M | BJP | |||||
| 26 Karsog (SC) | Deep Raj | M | BJP | |||||
| 27 Sundernagar | Rakesh Jamwal | M | BJP | |||||
| 28 Nachan (SC) | Vinod Kumar | M | BJP | |||||
| 29 Seraj | Jai Ram Thakur | M | BJP | |||||
| 30 Darang | Puran Chand Thakur | M | BJP | |||||
| 31 Jogindernagar | Prakash Rana | M | BJP | |||||
| 32 Dharampur | Chander Shekhar | M | INC | |||||
| 33 Mandi | Anil Sharma | M | BJP | |||||
| 34 Balh (SC) | Inder Singh | M | BJP | |||||
| 35 Sarkaghat | Dalip Thakur | M | BJP | |||||
| 36 Bhoranj (SC) | Suresh Kumar | M | INC | |||||
| 37 Sujanpur | Rajinder Rana | M | INC | |||||
| 38 Hamirpur | Ashish Sharma | M | IND | |||||
| 39 Barsar | Inder Dutt Lakhanpal | M | INC | |||||
| 40 Nadaun | Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu | M | INC | |||||
| 41 Chintpurni (SC) | Sudarshan Singh Babloo | M | INC | |||||
| 42 Gagret | Chaitanya Sharma | M | INC | |||||
| 43 Haroli | Mukesh Agnihotri | M | INC | |||||
| 44 Una | Satpal Singh Satti | M | BJP | |||||
| 45 Kutlehar | Davinder Kumar Bhutto | M | INC | |||||
| 46 Jhanduta (SC) | Jeet Ram Katwal | M | BJP | |||||
| 47 Ghumarwin | Rajesh Dharmani | M | INC | |||||
| 48 Bilaspur | Trilok Jamwal | M | BJP | |||||
| 49 Sri Naina Deviji | Randhir Sharma | M | BJP | |||||
| 50 Arki | Sanjay | M | INC | |||||
| 51 Nalagarh | K. L. Thakur | M | IND | |||||
| 52 Doon | Ram Kumar | M | INC | |||||
| 53 Solan (SC) | Dhani Ram Shandil | M | INC | |||||
| 54 Kasauli (SC) | Vinod Sultanpuri | M | INC | |||||
| 55 Pachhad (SC) | Reena | F | BJP | |||||
| 56 Nahan | Ajay Solanki | M | INC | |||||
| 57 Sri Renukaji (SC) | Vinay Kumar | M | INC | |||||
| 58 Paonta Sahib | Sukh Ram Chaudhary | M | BJP | |||||
| 59 Shillai | Harshwardhan Chauhan | M | INC | |||||
| 60 Chopal | Sh. Balbir Singh Verma | M | BJP | |||||
| 61 Theog | Kuldeep Singh Rathore | M | INC | |||||
| 62 Kasumpti | Anirudh Singh | M | INC | |||||
| 63 Shimla | Harish Janartha | M | INC | |||||
| 64 Shimla Rural | Vikramaditya Singh | M | INC | |||||
| 65 Jubbal-Kotkhai | Rohit Thakur | M | INC | |||||
| 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 | 25 | |||||||
| Independent | 3 | |||||||
| Indian National Congress | 40 | |||||||