| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All 68 seats in the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly 35 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Turnout | 75.57% (2.06%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seatwise Result Map of the election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Structure of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly after the election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
The Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2017 was held on 9 November 2017 to elect all 68 members of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
The term of the previous Legislative Assembly ended on 7 January 2017. Since 2012, the Indian National Congress Party was in power in the outgoing assembly with 36 seats. The lone opposition party was Bharatiya Janata Party.
The Constitution of India states that the term of Legislative Assemblies is five years, at maximum. The term of current Legislative Assembly ends on 7 January 2018. [3] The previous election, held in 2012 resulted in Congress gaining majority of seats and Virbhadra Singh becoming Chief Minister.
Himachal Pradesh, as a state of India follows Parliamentary system of government similar to other states. The Government is responsible to the Assembly and stays in power only if it has the support of majority members. Elections take place on a first past the post basis, the candidate with the most votes wins the seat regardless of an absolute majority. Every citizen of the state, who is 18 and above is eligible to vote. The Governor then invites the leader of the largest party or coalition to form the government. As is common in most other first past the post electoral systems, the state's politics are dominated by two parties – the Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party.
State elections in India are often fought on central issues, and the results are regarded as a referendum on the central government's policies. This is especially true in the case of states where the two national parties – Congress and BJP are in direct contest with each other. The state units of the parties are not completely independent and the central authority of the parties has a considerable influence over candidate selection and campaigning. However, state issues do tend to dominate the discourse. The Congress party has projected its current Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh as its Chief Ministerial candidate for the elections. BJP announced Prem Kumar Dhumal as its Chief Ministerial candidate. Dhumal, however, lost the election so eventually the BJP made Jai Ram Thakur the Chief Minister of state, who won from the Seraj constituency. In the 17th Assembly segment, Tashigang village becomes the highest polling station at an altitude of 15256 feet. The polling station falls in Buddhist-dominated Lahul-Spiti that form the Mandi Lok Sabha seat, the second-largest constituency in India. Situated at about 29 Kilometres from the India-China border, the polling station covers two villages - Tashigang and Gets. As per the revised electoral roll, the two villages have 48 Voters of which 30 are men and 18 women.
VVPAT-fitted electronic voting machines were used in all of the 7,521 polling stations, the first time that the entire state will see the implementation of VVPAT to ensure greater transparency to the voter. [4] Over 5 million voters are registered in the state. [5] VVPAT slips were counted in 2 polling stations each across all 68 Himachal Pradesh constituencies. [6]
India's first voter, Shyam Saran Negi, voted for the 29th time at Kalpa polling station in Kinnaur. [7]
Group of voters | Voters population |
---|---|
Male | 2,531,321 |
Female | 2,457,032 |
Third gender | 169 |
Total voters | 5,025,541 |
Indian electoral rules allow any citizen of India above 18 years of age to vote in any states and union territories of India, provided he/she is a resident of that state. India has a large Tibetan diaspora that fled from Tibet along with the Dalai Lama. Dharamshala, a city in Himachal Pradesh, is the capital of the Central Tibetan Administration. The Government has allowed Tibetans born in India between 1950 and 1987 to vote in the elections. This however, does not affect their relationship with the CTA. [8] [9]
BJP declared list of 68 candidates on 18 October 2017 which includes 14 first timers with 21 new faces. [10]
Event | Date | Day |
Date for nominations | 16 October 2017 | Monday |
Last date for filing nominations | 23 October 2017 | Monday |
Date for scrutiny of nominations | 24 October 2017 | Tuesday |
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures | 26 October 2017 | Thursday |
Date of poll | 9 Nov 2017 | Thursday |
Date of counting | 18 December 2017 | Monday |
Date before which the election shall be completed | 20 December 2017 | Wednesday |
Polling firm/Commissioner | Date published | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | INC | Others | ||
India-Today (Axis) Opinion Poll [11] | 24 October 2017 | 49% 43–47 | 38% 21–25 | 13% 0–2 |
ABP News CSDS [12] | 30 October 2017 | 47% 39–45 | 41% 22–28 | 12% 0–3 |
C-Voter [13] | 7 November 2017 | 50% 52 | 37% 15 | 11% 1 |
The results were declared on 18 December 2017. [14]
Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | ||
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 1,846,432 | 48.8 | 10.3 | 44 | 18 | |
Indian National Congress (INC) | 1,577,450 | 41.7 | 1.1 | 21 | 15 | |
Independents | 239,989 | 6.3 | 6.1 | 2 | 3 | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) | 55,558 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | |
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) | 18,540 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0 | ||
Himachal Lokhit Party (HLP) | — | 2.4 | 0 | 1 | ||
None of the Above (NOTA) | 34,232 | 0.9 | 0.9 | — | ||
Total | 37,84,658 | 100.00 | 68 | ±0 | ||
Valid votes | 37,84,658 | 99.64 | ||||
Invalid votes | 13,158 | 0.36 | ||||
Votes cast / turnout | 37,98,176 | 75.57 | ||||
Abstentions | 12,27,764 | 24.43 | ||||
Registered voters | 50,25,940 | |||||
District wise map of Himachal Pradesh | District | Total Seats | BJP | INC | OTH |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chamba | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
Kangra | 15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | |
Lahaul and Spiti | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Kullu | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
Mandi | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | |
Hamirpur | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
Una | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | |
Bilaspur | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
Solan | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
Sirmaur | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | |
Shimla | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | |
Kinnaur | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Total | 68 | 44 | 21 | 3 |
District | # | Constituency | Winner [16] | Runner-up | Margin | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Candidate | Party | Votes | Candidate | Party | Votes | ||||||
Chamba | 1 | Churah (SC) | Hans Raj | BJP | 28,293 | Surender Bhardwaj | INC | 23,349 | 4,944 | ||
2 | Bharmour (ST) | Jia Lal | BJP | 25,744 | Thakur Singh Bharmouri | INC | 18,395 | 7,349 | |||
3 | Chamba | Pawan Nayyar | BJP | 26,763 | Neeraj Nayar | INC | 24,884 | 1,879 | |||
4 | Dalhousie | Asha Kumari | INC | 24,224 | D. S. Thakur | BJP | 23,668 | 556 | |||
5 | Bhattiyat | Bikram Singh Jaryal | BJP | 29,119 | Kuldeep Singh Pathania | INC | 22,234 | 6,885 | |||
Kangra | 6 | Nurpur | Rakesh Pathania | BJP | 34,871 | Ajay Mahajan | INC | 28,229 | 6,642 | ||
7 | Indora (SC) | Reeta Devi | BJP | 29,213 | Kamal Kishore | INC | 28,118 | 1,095 | |||
8 | Fatehpur | Sujan Singh Pathania | INC | 18,962 | Kripal Singh Parmar | BJP | 17,678 | 1,284 | |||
9 | Jawali | Arjun Singh | BJP | 36,999 | Chander Kumar | INC | 28,786 | 8,213 | |||
10 | Dehra | Hoshyar Singh | Ind | 24,206 | Ravinder Singh Ravi | BJP | 20,292 | 3,914 | |||
11 | Jaswan-Pragpur | Bikram Singh | BJP | 23,583 | Surinder Singh Mankotia | INC | 21,721 | 1,862 | |||
12 | Jawalamukhi | Ramesh Chand Dhawala | BJP | 27,914 | Sanjay Rattan | INC | 21,450 | 6,464 | |||
13 | Jaisinghpur (SC) | Ravinder Kumar | BJP | 29,357 | Yadvinder Goma | INC | 18,647 | 10,710 | |||
14 | Sullah | Vipin Singh Parmar | BJP | 38,173 | Jagjiwan Paul | INC | 27,882 | 10,291 | |||
15 | Nagrota | Arun Kumar | BJP | 32,039 | G S Bali | INC | 31,039 | 1,000 | |||
16 | Kangra | Pawan Kumar Kajal | INC | 25,549 | Sanjay Chaudhary | BJP | 19,341 | 6,208 | |||
17 | Shahpur | Sarveen Choudhary | BJP | 23,104 | Major (Ret.) Vijai Singh Mankotia | Ind | 16,957 | 6,147 | |||
18 | Dharamshala | Kishan Kapoor | BJP | 26,050 | Sudhir Sharma | INC | 23,053 | 2,997 | |||
19 | Palampur | Ashish Butail | INC | 24,252 | Indu Goswami | BJP | 19,928 | 4,324 | |||
20 | Baijnath (SC) | Mulkh Raj Premi | BJP | 32,102 | Kishori Lal | INC | 19,433 | 12,669 | |||
Lahaul and Spiti | 21 | Lahaul and Spiti (ST) | Ram Lal Markanda | BJP | 7,756 | Ravi Thakur | INC | 6,278 | 1,478 | ||
Kullu | 22 | Manali | Govind Singh Thakur | BJP | 27,173 | Hari Chand Sharma | INC | 24,168 | 3,005 | ||
23 | Kullu | Sunder Singh Thakur | INC | 31,423 | Maheshwar Singh | BJP | 29,885 | 1,538 | |||
24 | Banjar | Surender Shourie | BJP | 28,007 | Aditya Vikram Singh | INC | 24,767 | 3,240 | |||
25 | Anni (SC) | Kishori Lal | BJP | 30,559 | Paras Ram | INC | 24,576 | 5,983 | |||
Mandi | 26 | Karsog (SC) | Hira Lal | BJP | 22,102 | Mansa Ram | INC | 17,272 | 4,830 | ||
27 | Sundernagar | Rakesh Kumar Jamwal | BJP | 32,545 | Sohan Lal | INC | 23,282 | 9,263 | |||
28 | Nachan (SC) | Vinod Kumar | BJP | 38,154 | Lal Singh Kaushal | INC | 22,258 | 15,896 | |||
29 | Seraj | Jai Ram Thakur | BJP | 35,519 | Chet Ram | INC | 24,265 | 11,254 | |||
30 | Darang | Jawahar Thakur | BJP | 31,392 | Kaul Singh | INC | 24,851 | 6,541 | |||
31 | Jogindernagar | Prakash Rana | Ind | 31,214 | Gulab Singh Thakur | BJP | 24,579 | 6,635 | |||
32 | Dharampur | Mahender Singh | BJP | 27,931 | Chandershekhar | INC | 15,967 | 11,964 | |||
33 | Mandi | Anil Sharma | BJP | 31,282 | Champa Thakur | INC | 21,025 | 10,257 | |||
34 | Balh (SC) | Colonel Inder Singh Gandhi | BJP | 34,704 | Prakash Chaudhary | INC | 21,893 | 12,811 | |||
35 | Sarkaghat | Colonel Inder Singh | BJP | 30,705 | Pawan Kumar | INC | 21,403 | 9,302 | |||
Hamirpur | 36 | Bhoranj (SC) | Kamlesh Kumari | BJP | 27,961 | Suresh Kumar | INC | 21,069 | 6,892 | ||
37 | Sujanpur | Rajinder Rana | INC | 25,288 | Prem Kumar Dhumal | BJP | 23,369 | 1,919 | |||
38 | Hamirpur | Narinder Thakur | BJP | 25,854 | Kuldeep Singh Pathania | INC | 18,623 | 7,231 | |||
39 | Barsar | Inder Dutt Lakhanpal | INC | 25,679 | Baldev Sharma | BJP | 25,240 | 439 | |||
40 | Nadaun | Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu | INC | 30,980 | Vijay Agnihotri | BJP | 28,631 | 2,349 | |||
Una | 41 | Chintpurni (SC) | Balvir Singh | BJP | 32,488 | Kuldip Kumar | INC | 23,909 | 8,579 | ||
42 | Gagret | Rajesh Thakur | BJP | 33,977 | Rakesh Kalia | INC | 24,657 | 9,320 | |||
43 | Haroli | Mukesh Agnihotri | INC | 35,095 | Ram Kumar | BJP | 27,718 | 7,377 | |||
44 | Una | Satpal Raizada | INC | 31,360 | Satpal Singh Satti | BJP | 28,164 | 3,196 | |||
45 | Kutlehar | Virender Kanwar | BJP | 31,101 | Vivek Sharma | INC | 25,495 | 5,606 | |||
Bilaspur | 46 | Jhanduta (SC) | Jeet Ram Katwal | BJP | 29,030 | Beeru Ram Kishore | INC | 24,068 | 4,962 | ||
47 | Ghumarwin | Rajinder Garg | BJP | 34,846 | Rajesh Dharmani | INC | 24,411 | 10,435 | |||
48 | Bilaspur | Subhash Thakur | BJP | 31,547 | Bumber Thakur | INC | 24,685 | 6,862 | |||
49 | Sri Naina Deviji | Ram Lal Thakur | INC | 28,119 | Randhir Sharma | BJP | 27,077 | 1,042 | |||
Solan | 50 | Arki | Virbhadra Singh | INC | 34,499 | Rattan Singh Pal | BJP | 28,448 | 6,051 | ||
51 | Nalagarh | Lakhvinder Singh Rana | INC | 25,872 | Krishan Lal Thakur | BJP | 24,630 | 1,242 | |||
52 | Doon | Paramjeet Singh Pammi | BJP | 29,701 | Ram Kumar | INC | 25,382 | 4,319 | |||
53 | Solan (SC) | Dhani Ram Shandil | INC | 26,200 | Rajesh Kashyap | BJP | 25,529 | 671 | |||
54 | Kasauli (SC) | Rajiv Saizal | BJP | 23,656 | Vinod Sultanpuri | INC | 23,214 | 442 | |||
Sirmaur | 55 | Pachhad (SC) | Suresh Kumar Kashyap | BJP | 30,243 | Gangu Ram Musafir | INC | 23,816 | 6,427 | ||
56 | Nahan | Dr. Rajeev Bindal | BJP | 31,563 | Ajay Solankey | INC | 27,573 | 3,990 | |||
57 | Sri Renukaji (SC) | Vinay Kumar | INC | 22,028 | Balbir Singh | BJP | 16,868 | 5,160 | |||
58 | Paonta Sahib | Sukh Ram Chaudhary | BJP | 36,011 | Kirnesh Jung | INC | 23,392 | 12,619 | |||
59 | Shillai | Harsh Wardhan Singh Chauhan | INC | 29,171 | Baldev Singh | BJP | 25,046 | 4,125 | |||
Shimla | 60 | Chopal | Balbir Singh Verma | BJP | 29,537 | Subhash Chand Manglate | INC | 24,950 | 4,587 | ||
61 | Theog | Rakesh Singha | CPM | 24,791 | Rakesh Verma | BJP | 22,808 | 1,983 | |||
62 | Kasumpati | Anirudh Singh | INC | 22,061 | Vijay Jyoti | BJP | 12,664 | 9,397 | |||
63 | Shimla | Suresh Bhardwaj | BJP | 14,012 | Harish Janartha | Ind | 12,109 | 1,903 | |||
64 | Shimla Rural | Vikramaditya Singh | INC | 28,275 | Dr. Pramod Sharma | BJP | 23,395 | 4,880 | |||
65 | Jubbal-Kotkhai | Narinder Bragta | BJP | 27,466 | Rohit Thakur | INC | 26,404 | 1,062 | |||
66 | Rampur (SC) | Nand Lal | INC | 25,730 | Prem Singh Daraik | BJP | 21,693 | 4,037 | |||
67 | Rohru (SC) | Mohan Lal Brakta | INC | 29,134 | Shashi Bala | BJP | 19,726 | 9,408 | |||
Kinnaur | 68 | Kinnaur (ST) | Jagat Singh Negi | INC | 20,029 | Tejwant Singh Negi | BJP | 19,909 | 120 |
India has a parliamentary system as defined by its constitution, with power distributed between the union government and the states. India's democracy is the largest democracy in the world.
Prem Kumar Dhumal is an Indian politician who has twice served as the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, from March 1998 to March 2003 and again from 1 January 2008 to 25 December 2012. He was the Bharatiya Janata Party's Chief Ministerial candidate for the 2017 Himachal Assembly Election, in which he lost his seat.
Pandit Sukh Ram was an Indian politician who served as the Minister of Communications and Information Technology from 1993 to 1996. He was a member of Lok Sabha from the Mandi constituency of Himachal Pradesh. He won the Vidhan Sabha elections five times and the Lok Sabha elections three times. He is the father of politician Anil Sharma and grandfather of actor Aayush Sharma. In 2011 he was sentenced to 5 years in jail for corruption when he was Communications Minister in 1996.
General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 election. Around 23.1 million or 2.71% of the total eligible voters were aged 18–19 years. A total of 8,251 candidates contested the 543 elected Lok Sabha seats. The average election turnout over all nine phases was around 66.40%, the highest ever in the history of Indian general elections until 2019 election.
The elections in 2012 were scheduled for seven Vidhan Sabhas and several local elections were also conducted. The 14th presidential election to elect the 13th president of the republic was also held in 2012. The tenure of the legislative assemblies of Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand were to expire during the year. The Election Commission of India issued the dates for the elections in Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Goa to take place in the first quarter of the year. Whereas the elections were held in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat in the last quarter of the year.
The Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2012 was held in Himachal Pradesh, India in 2012 after the five-year term of the incumbent state legislature and government expired following the assembly elections of 2007. The election chose 68 MLAs to the Vidhan Sabha. The Indian National Congress won a majority of seats as well as the popular vote, and Virbhadra Singh was reappointed as the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh for his fourth term.
Elections to the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in 1998 to elect members of the 68 constituencies in Himachal Pradesh, India. The Indian National Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party won an equal number of seats, but the BJP managed to form the government by allying with the Himachal Vikas Congress, and Prem Kumar Dhumal was appointed as the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. The number of constituencies was set as 68 by the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.
Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of Rajasthan on 1 December 2013. Results were announced on 8 December. The incumbent ruling party Indian National Congress, led by the Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, lost the elections to Vasundhara Raje-led BJP, who was being touted as the next incumbent.
A Legislative Assembly election was held on 25 November 2013 in Madhya Pradesh, India, with the result announced on 8 December. Along with four other state assembly elections, these were the first elections in which the Election Commission of India (ECI) implemented a "None of the above" (NOTA) voting option, allowing the electorate to register a neutral vote but not to outright reject candidates. In a first, the Election Commission of India also appointed Central Awareness Observers, whose main task was to oversee voter awareness and facilitation.
A general election was held on 15 October 2014 to elect 90 members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly. The term of previous assembly elected in 2009 was to expire on 27 October 2014. The results were announced on 19 October. The BJP won the majority in the Assembly. Manohar Lal Khattar was chosen to head the new government.
The 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election was held on 16 May 2016 to elect 140 MLAs to the 14th Kerala Legislative Assembly.
The key political players in Himachal Pradesh state in north-west India are the Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party.
The election to the 17th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly was held from 11 February to 8 March 2017 in 7 phases. This election saw a voter turnout of 61.11% compared to 59.40% in the previous election. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the election by an overwhelming three-quarters majority of 325 seats despite not projecting a chief ministerial candidate before the election. As part of its election strategy, BJP contested under a collective leadership and capitalised mostly on the political clout and 'brand' of its leader Narendra Modi.
Smt. Urmil Thakur is an Indian politician from Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh.
The 14th Gujarat Legislative Assembly election, 2017 was held on 9 December 2017 and 14 December 2017 in the Indian state of Gujarat to elect the Members of Legislative Assembly (MLA). The votes were counted on 18 December. All 182 members of the 14th Gujarat Legislative Assembly were elected with the leader of the largest party or coalition expected to become the next chief minister.
A Legislative Assembly election was held in Manipur on 4 March and 8 March 2017 to elect the 60 members of the Manipur Legislative Assembly. before the expiration of the term of the previous Assembly on 18 March 2017. The election was fought mainly on the issues of "territorial integrity of Manipur" and the Naga peace accord. The incumbent Indian National Congress lost majority, though it had plurality. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which won 21 seats, formed the government with the support of allies.
Gulab Singh Thakur is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a former speaker and deputy chief minister of Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India.
The 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election was held on 12 May 2018 in 222 constituencies to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. The election was postponed in Jayanagar and Rajarajeshwari Nagar, following the death of the MLA B. N. Vijaya Kumar and a voter fraud scandal respectively till 28 May. The election saw a voter turnout of 72.13 per cent, the highest in Karnataka since several decades. The counting of votes took place on 15 May 2018.
The 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election were held in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on 11 April 2019 for constituting the fifteenth legislative assembly in the state. They were held alongside the 2019 Indian general election.
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Himachal Pradesh on 12 November 2022 to elect 68 members of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 8 December 2022.