Vikramaditya Singhis leading from Shimla rural
BJP leading in 31 of 68 seats in Himachal Pardesh
The counting of votes for the Himachal Pradesh election 2022 result has kicked off on Thursday. The Himachal Pradesh election 2022 result will be declared as soon as the result of 68 assembly constituencies is out. The main contenders in the HP election 2022 are the BJP and the Congress. The hilly state has 68 seats and the halfway mark is 35.
The party which wins 35 seats will be declared the winning party with a clean majority in the Himachal Pradesh poll 2022. 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.As per the early trends, BJP and Congress are in a close fight in Himachal Pradesh.
Himachal has never re-elected the ruling party after 1985 — a trend that the BJP, powered by PM Narendra Modi's aggressive campaign, hopes to end. The BJP slogan this time was "Raj nahin, riwaaj badlega", meaning "the tradition will change, not the government". The BJP has bucked a similar trend in another hill state, Uttarakhand, and it cited repeatedly in Himachal Pradesh, home state of the party's national president JP Nadda.
with Independents playing a key role. Of the 55 lakh voters, over 75 per cent voted in the November 12 election for a 68-member assembly from among the 400-odd candidates. The chief contest was between the ruling BJP and the Congress.
BJP- 30
Congress- 28
Independent- 3
Congress' Vikramaditya Singh, son of the former chief minister of Himachal Pradesh Late Virbhadra Singh is leading from Shimla rural.
In the 2017 assembly elections, the BJP won a comfortable majority of 44; the Congress got 21, with one seat going to CPI-M, and two to Independents. The BJP effected a generational change in leadership as its presumptive chief minister, Prem Kumar Dhumal, lost his seat, and Jairam Thakur got the chair.