Himachal Pradesh Elections 2022: Know Party-Wise Candidates And Their Constituencies, Number Of Voters, & All The FAQs Here

CEO Maneesh Garg said the voters voting in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly Polls include 27,37,845 women, 28,54,945 men, and 38 third gender, with 67,559 of them service electors and 22 NRIs

Dharamshala: Himachal Pradesh is all set to witness assembly polls on November 12. There are total 68 seats for which Himachal will be voting. The term of the 13th Assembly will expire on January 8, 2023. The Election Commission of India has announced the dates already and said that voting will be held in one phase only. The results will be out on December 8.

13th Himachal Legislative Assembly

Governor: Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar

Leader of the House (Chief Minister): Jairam Thakur

Speaker: Vipin Singh Parmar

Deputy Speaker: Hans Raj

Leader of the Opposition: Mukesh Agnihotri

Term Of 13th Himachal Legislative Assembly: January 9, 2018, to January 8, 2023

No. of General Electors: 55,07,261 | No. of Service Voters: 67,532

Total Number of electors: 55,74,793

There shall be a maximum of 1500 electors in a polling station, the Election Commission mentioned in a statement.

Also Read: Himachal: Congress Presents Its Election Manifesto With A Pledge Of Free Power Up To 300 Units

Himachal Pradesh 2022 Poll Schedule 

The Gazette Notification was issued on October 17, 2022.

By October 25, 2022, nominations were filed and scrutiny of nominations was done by October 27, 2022.

Candidature withdrawal was done by October 29, 2022.

Voting will be held in one phase on December 12 and results will be out by December 8.

On November 9, 2017, Himachal Pradesh voted to elect its legislative assembly. The BJP defeated the Congress and won 44 seats in the 68-member Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election in 2017, while the Congress received only 21 votes. The BJP won by securing 48.79% of votes followed by the Congress securing 41.68% of votes and Independents securing 6.34% of votes.

As of now, in the Assembly, the Jairam Thakur-led BJP regime has 45 MLAs. The Congress has 22 and CPI(M) has one.

The Aam Aadmi Party is also battling this election.

A total of 55,92,828 people will be voting. Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Maneesh Garg said the voters include 27,37,845 women, 28,54,945 men, and 38 third gender, with 67,559 of them service electors and 22 NRIs. Around 56,501 are PwD voters. There are 1.93 lakh first-time voters. CEO said there are 701 electors per polling station on average.

Full list of Candidates and their Constituencies:

1. Seraj – Jai Ram Thakur (BJP) vs Chetram Thakur (Congress) vs Gita Nand Thakur (AAP)
2. Churah (SC) – Hans Raj (BJP) vs Yashwant Singh Khanna (Congress) vs Nand Kumar Jaryal (AAP)
3. Bharmour (ST) – Janak Raj (BJP) vs Thakur Singh Bharmouri (Congress) vs Parkash Chand Bhardwaj (AAP)
4. Chamba – Indira Kapoor (BJP) vs Neeraj Nayyar (Congress) vs Shashi Kant (AAP)
5. Dalhousie – DS Thakur (BJP) vs Asha Kumari (Congress) vs Manish Sareen (AAP)
6. Bhattiyat – Bikram Jaryal (BJP) vs Kuldip Singh Pathania (Congress) vs Naresh Kumar (Kuku Thakur) (AAP)
7. Nurpur – Ranveer Singh (Nikka) (BJP) vs Ajay Mahajan (Congress) vs Manisha Kumari (AAP)
8. Indora (SC) – Reeta Dhiman (BJP) vs Malender Rajan (Congress) vs Jagdish Bagga (AAP)
9. Fatehpur – Rakesh Pathania (BJP) vs Bhawani Singh Pathania (Congress) vs Rajan Sushant (AAP)
10.Jawali – Sanjay Guleriya (BJP) vs Chander Kumar (Congress) vs Baldev Raj (AAP)
11.Jaswan-Pragpur – Bikram Thakur (BJP) vs Surinder Singh Mankotia (Congress) vs Sahil Chauhan (AAP)
12. Jaisinghpur (SC) – Ravinder Dhiman (BJP) vs Yadvinder Goma (Congress) vs Santosh Kumar (AAP)
13. Sullah – Vipin Singh Parmar (BJP) vs Jagdish Sapehia (Congress) vs Ravinder Singh Ravi (AAP)
14. Nagrota – Arun Kumar Mehra (Kuka) vs Raghubir Singh Bali (Congress) vs Umakant Dogra (AAP)
15. Kangra – Pawan Kajal (BJP) vs Surender Singh Kaku (Congress) vs Rajkumar Jaswal (AAP)
16. Shahpur – Sarveen Choudhary (BJP) vs Kewal Singh Pathania (Congress) vs Abhishek Thakur (AAP)
17. Dharamshala – Rakesh Chaudhary (BJP) vs Sudhir Sharma (Congress) vs Kulwant Rana (AAP)
18. Palampur – Trilok Kapoor (BJP) vs Ashish Butail (Congress) vs Sanjay Bharadwaj (AAP)
19. Bajinath (SC) – Mulkhraj Premi (BJP) vs Kishori Lal (Congress) vs Pramod Chand (AAP)
20. Lahaul & Spiti (ST) – Ramlal Markandey (BJP) vs Ravi Thakur (Congress) vs Sudershan Jaspa (AAP)
21. Manali – Govind Singh Thakur (BJP) vs Bhuvneshwar Gaur (Congress) vs Anurag Prarthi (AAP)
22. Banjar – Surendra Shourie (BJP) vs Khimi Ram (Congress) vs Neeraj Saini (AAP)
23. Anni (SC) – Lokendra Kumar (BJP) vs Bansi Lal Kaushal (Congress) vs Inder Paul (AAP)
24. Sundernagar – Rakesh Jamwal (BJP) vs Sohan Lal Thakur (Congress) vs Pooja Thakur (AAP)
25. Nachan (SC) – Vinod Kumar (BJP) vs Naresh Kumar (Congress) vs Jabna Chauhan (AAP)
26. Darang – Puran Chand Thakur (BJP) vs Kaul Singh Thakur (Congress) vs Sunita Thakur (AAP)
27. Jogindernagar – Prakash Rana (BJP) vs Surendra Pal Thakur (Congress) vs Ravider Paul Singh (AAP)
28. Dharampur – Rajat Thakur (BJP) vs Chandrashekhar (Congress) vs Rakesh Mandotra (AAP)
29. Mandi – Anil Sharma (BJP) vs Champa Thakur (Congress) vs Shyam Lal (AAP)
30. Balh (SC) – Indra Singh Gandhi (BJP) vs Prakash Chaudhary (Congress) vs Tara Chand Bhatia (AAP)
31. Sarkaghat – Daleep Thakur (BJP) vs Pawan Kumar (Congress) vs Dhameshwar Ram (AAP)
32. Bhoranj (SC) – Dr. Anil Dhiman (BJP) vs Suresh Kumar (Congress) vs Rajni Kaushal (AAP)
33. Sujanpur – Capt. (Retd.) Ranjeet Singh (BJP) vs Rajinder Singh Rana (Congress) vs Anil Rana (AAP)
34. Hamirpur – Narender Thakur (BJP) vs Sushil Kumar Surroch (AAP)
35. Nadaun – Vijay Agnihotri (BJP) vs Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu (Congress) vs Shanky Thukral (AAP)
36. Chintpurni (SC) – Balbir Singh Chaudhary (BJP) vs Sudarshan Singh Babloo (Congress) vs Ram Paul (AAP)
37. Gagret – Rajesh Thakur (BJP) vs Chaitanya Sharma (Congress) vs Manohar Dadwal (AAP)
38. Una – Satpal Singh Satti (BJP) vs Satpal Raizada (Congress) vs Rajiv Gautam (AAP)
39. Kutlehar – Virender Kanwar (BJP) vs Devender Kumar Bhutto (Congress) vs Anil Mankotiya (AAP)
40. Jhanduta (SC) – JR Katwal (BJP) vs Vivek Kumar (Congress) vs Sudhir Suman (AAP)
41. Ghumarwin – Rajinder Garg (BJP) vs Rajesh Dharmani (Congress) vs Rakesh Chopra (AAP)
42. Bilaspur – Trilok Jamwal (BJP) vs Bumber Thakur (Congress) vs Amar Singh Chaudhary (AAP)
43. Sri Naina Deviji – Randhir Sharma (BJP) vs Ram Lal Thakur (Congress) vs Narender Thakur (AAP)
44. Arki – Govind Ram Sharma (BJP) vs Sanjay Awasthi (Congress) vs Jeet Ram Sharma (AAP)
45. Nalagarh – Lakhwinder Rana (BJP) vs Hardeep Singh Bawa (Congress) vs Dharampal Chauhan (AAP)
46. Doon – Sardar Paramjeet Singh (Pammi) (BJP) vs Ram Kumar Chaudhary (Congress) vs Sawarn Singh Saini (AAP)
47. Solan (SC) – Dr. Rajesh Kashyap (BJP) vs Dhani Ram Shandil (Congress) vs Anju Rathore (AAP)
48. Kasauli (SC) – Dr. Rajiv Saizal (BJP) vs Vinod Sultanpuri (Congress) vs Harmel Dhiman (AAP)
49. Pachhad (SC) – Reena Kashyap (BJP) vs Dayal Pyari (Congress) vs Ankush Chauhan (AAP)
50. Nahan – Dr. Rajeev Bindal (BJP) vs Ajay Solanki (Congress) vs Sunil Sharma (AAP)
51. Sri Renukaji (SC) – Narayan Singh (BJP) vs Vinay Kumar (Congress) vs Lt.Col. Ram Krishnan (AAP)
52. Paonta Sahib – Sukhram Chaudhary (BJP) vs Kirnesh Jung (Congress) vs Manish Thakur (AAP)
53. Shillai – Baldev Tomar (BJP) vs Harshwardhan Singh Chauhan (Congress) vs Nathuram Chauhan (AAP)
54. Chopal – Balbir Verma (BJP) vs Rajneesh Kimta (Congress) vs Uday Singhta (AAP)
55. Theog – Ajay Shyam (BJP) vs Kuldeep Singh Rathore (Congress) vs Atar Singh Chandel (AAP)
56. Kasumpti – Suresh Bhardwaj (BJP) vs Anirudh Singh (Congress) vs Rajesh Channa (AAP)
57. Shimla – Sanjay Sood (BJP) vs Harish Janartha (Congress) vs Chaman Rakesh Ajta (AAP)
58. Shimla Rural – Ravi Mehta (BJP) vs Vikramaditya Singh (Congress) vs Prem Thakur (AAP)
59.Jubbal-Kotkhai – Chetan Bragta (BJP) vs Rohit Thakur (Congress) vs Srikant Chauhan (AAP)
60.Rohru (SC) – Shashi Bala (BJP) vs Mohan Lal Brakta (Congress) vs Ashwani Kumar (AAP)
61.Kinnaur (ST) – Surat Negi (BJP) vs Jagat Singh Negi (Congress) vs Tersem Singh (AAP)
62.Karsog (SC) – Deepraj Kapoor (Banthal) (BJP) vs Mahesh Raj (Congress) vs Bhagwant Singh (AAP)
63. Dehra – Ramesh Dhawala (BJP) vs Rajesh Sharma (Congress) vs Col. Manish Dhiman (AAP)
64. Jawalamukhi – Ravinder Singh Ravi (BJP) vs Sanjay Rattan (Congress) vs Hoshiyar Singh (AAP)
65. Kullu – Maheshwar Singh (BJP) vs Sunder Thakur (Congress) vs Sher Singh Shera Negi (AAP)
66. Barsar – Maya Sharma (BJP) vs Inder Dutt Lakhanpal (Congress) vs Gulshan Soni (AAP)
67. Haroli – Ramkumar (BJP) vs Mukesh Agnihotri (Congress) vs Ravinder Pal Singh Mann (AAP)
68. Rampur (SC) – Kaul Negi (BJP) vs Nand Lal (Congress) vs Uday Singh Dogra (AAP)