2022 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
← 2017 November 2022
All 68 seats in the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly
35 seats needed for a majority
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Leader Jai Ram Thakur Pratibha Singh
Party BJP INC
Alliance NDA UPA
Leader since 2017 2022
Leader's seat Seraj -[a]
Last election 48.8%, 44 seats 41.7%, 21 seats
Current seats 43 22
Incumbent CM

Jai Ram Thakur
Bharatiya Janata Party



Legislative Assembly elections are speculated to be held in Himachal Pradesh in November 2022 to elect 68 members of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

Background

The tenure of Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 8 January 2023.[1] The previous assembly elections were held in November 2017. After the election, Bharatiya Janata Party formed the state government, with Jai Ram Thakur becoming Chief Minister.[2]

Since the last assembly elections, several bypolls were held, the most recent of which were won by the Indian National Congress, with it wresting control of the Mandi Lok Sabha constituency and 3 other assembly constituencies.[3]

Congress MLAs Pawan Kumar Kajal and Lakhvinder Singh Rana joined BJP in August 2022.[4] Kajal was the head of Congress Working committee.[5] The defection of the two senior Congress officials was deemed to be a major blow to the party just a few months prior to the Assembly election.[6] On 28 September 2022, Himachal Pradesh state Congress working president and former cabinet minister Harsh Mahajan joined BJP. The defection was another shock to Congress.[7][8]

Schedule

Poll Event Schedule
Notification date TBD

Parties and alliances

  National Democratic Alliance

No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats Contested
1. Bharatiya Janata Party Jai Ram Thakur TBD

  United Progressive Alliance

No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats Contested
1. Indian National Congress Pratibha Singh File:Pratibha Singh 2014-05-13 13-48.jpg TBD

  Left Front

In September 2022, CPI(M) released list of 13 candidates for the election.[9][10] CPI(M) state secretary Onkar Shad said that the party is willing to contest in 17 seats. In other seats, the CPI(M) will contest the assembly election in alliance with the CPI.[11]

No. Party[11] Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats Contested
1. Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rakesh Singha File:Rakesh Singha.jpg 17
2. Communist Party of India Shayam Singh Chauhan TBD

  Aam Aadmi Party

No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats Contested
1. Aam Aadmi Party Surjeet Singh Thakur[12] 68[13]

Candidates

AAP released the first list of 4 candidates on 20 September 2022.[14]

The Indian National Congress finalised names of 39 candidates on 27 September 2022.[15][16][17]

District[18] Constituency Electors
(2022)[19] 		AAP UPA
No. Name Party Candidate Party Candidate
Chamba 1 Churah (SC) 75,468
2 Bharmour (ST) 76,046
3 Chamba 81,594
4 Dalhousie 73,071 INC Asha Kumari
5 Bhattiyat 78,980 INC Kuldeep Pathania
Kangra 6 Nurpur 91,269 INC Ajay Mahajan
7 Indora (SC) 91,569
8 Fatehpur 87,913 AAP Rajan Sushant INC Bhawani Singh Pathania
9 Jawali 99,572 INC Chander Kumar
10 Dehra 83,629
11 Jaswan-Pragpur 77,991
12 Jawalamukhi 78,144
13 Jaisinghpur (SC) 84,018
14 Sullah 1,03,905
15 Nagrota 88,867 AAP Umakant Dogra INC Raghubir Bali
16 Kangra 81,583
17 Shahpur 87,723
18 Dharamshala 81,516
19 Palampur 75,481 INC Ashish Butail
20 Baijnath (SC) 89,135
Lahaul and Spiti 21 Lahaul and Spiti (ST) 24,876 AAP Sudershan Jaspa
Kullu 22 Manali 73,488
23 Kullu 89,600 INC Sunder Singh Thakur
24 Banjar 73,094 INC Khimi Ram
25 Anni (SC) 85,643
Mandi 26 Karsog (SC) 74,909
27 Sundernagar 81,164
28 Nachan (SC) 86,208
29 Seraj 81,843
30 Darang 89,086 INC Kaul Singh Thakur
31 Jogindernagar 98,341
32 Dharampur 79,958
33 Mandi 76,957
34 Balh (SC) 79,587 INC Prakash Chaudhary
35 Sarkaghat 90,837
Hamirpur 36 Bhoranj (SC) 81,134
37 Sujanpur 73,922 INC Rajinder Rana
38 Hamirpur 74,861
39 Barsar 86,273 INC Inder Dutt Lakhanpal
40 Nadaun 93,107 INC Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu
Una 41 Chintpurni (SC) 82,686 INC Kuldeep Kumar
42 Gagret 82,774
43 Haroli 86,273 INC Mukesh Agnihotri
44 Una 85,254 INC Satpal Raizada
45 Kutlehar 85,163
Bilaspur 46 Jhanduta (SC) 79,577
47 Ghumarwin 88,527 INC Rajesh Dharmani
48 Bilaspur 83,025
49 Sri Naina Deviji 74,244 INC Ram Lal Thakur
Solan 50 Arki 93,852 INC Sanjay Awasthy
51 Nalagarh 89,828
52 Doon 68,266 INC Ram Kumar
53 Solan (SC) 85,238 INC Dhani Ram Shandil
54 Kasauli (SC) 67,434 INC Vinod Sultanpuri
Sirmaur 55 Pachhad (SC) 76,475
56 Nahan 83,561 INC Ajay Solanki
57 Sri Renukaji (SC) 72,961 INC Vinay Kumar
58 Paonta Sahib 82,487 AAP Manish Thakur
59 Shillai 74,831 INC Harshwardhan Chauhan
Shimla 60 Chopal 79,109
61 Theog 83,275
62 Kasumpti 65,713 INC Anirudh Singh
63 Shimla 48,071
64 Shimla Rural 76,267 INC Vikramaditya Singh
65 Jubbal-Kotkhai 71,566 INC Rohit Thakur
66 Rampur (SC) 74,838 INC Nand Lal
67 Rohru (SC) 73,580 INC Mohan Lal Brakta
Kinnaur 68 Kinnaur (ST) 58836 INC Jagat Singh Negi

Manifesto

Aam Aadmi Party

Aam Aadmi Party published its 10 promises as guarantees of jobs for all youth, unemployment allowance, an advisory board for traders, end of "inspector rule", and corruption-free administration.[20]

  1. Employment: jobs for all youth. AAP promised six lakh government jobs for the youth. AAP will bring laws against exam paper leak, conducting all recruitment exams on time, and jobs will be given on merit, not recommendations.[21]
    • Unemployment allowance of ₹3000.[21][20]
    • Implementation of the Old Pension Scheme.
  2. Agriculture : Minimum Support price (MSP) for agricultural products. controlled atmosphere stores, markets, and food processing units; pesticides and fertilizers at cheap rates; Establish apple packaging manufacturing unit.[21]
  3. Traders : an advisory board for traders, end of raid raj and "inspector rule", An amnesty scheme for VAT refund. Single window clearance system for tourism projects[20][21]
  4. Corruption-free administration, door step delivery of public services.[21]
  5. Free Healthcare : Mohalla clinics similar to Delhi and free healthcare.[22]
  6. Free Education : Free education for all till tenth standard.[23] Making temporary teacher posts permanent. Building more schools with quality education. Prevent private schools from exorbitantly raising fees.
  7. Women Empowerment : A monthly allowance of ₹1000 to all women in Himachal Pradesh and double to women above the age of 65.[24][25]
  8. ₹10 lakh annual grant to Panchayats and ₹10,000 salary for panchayat pradhans.[21]
  9. Free pilgrimage scheme[21]
  10. ₹1 crore compensation for soldiers killed in the line of duty.[21]

Indian National Congress

Campaigns

Aam Aadmi Party

On 6 April 2022, AAP held a roadshow in Mandi with Delhi CM Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.[34][35] Surjeet Thakur was appointed as President of the state unit in June 2022.[12]

Indian National Congress

From August 17 to 22, the Indian National Congress organized demonstrations throughout Himachal Pradesh as a part of its "Mehangai Chaupal". The block units of the Himachal PCC protested in all the 68 constituencies against price rise and inflation. The protests were a part of the wider "Halla Bol" demonstrations organized by the Congress against the BJP-led government in Delhi.[36][37][38]

On 31 August 2022, the Indian National Congress launched its manifesto with its 10 guarantees in Himachal Ka Sankalp.[39][40]

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