Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly
14th Himachal Pradesh Assembly
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
Term limits
5 years
History
Preceded by13th Legislative Assembly
Leadership
Speaker
TBD, INC
since 2022
Deputy Speaker
TBD, INC
since 2022
Leader of the House
(Chief Minister)
Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, INC
since 11 December 2022
Deputy Chief Minister
Mukesh Agnihotri, INC
since 11 December 2022
Leader of the Opposition
TBD, BJP
since 2022
Structure
Seats68
Himachal Pradesh Assembly.svg
Political groups
Government (43)
  •   INC (40)
  •   IND (3)[1]

Opposition (25)

Elections
First past the post
Last election
12 November 2022
Next election
December 2027
Meeting place
Himachal Pradesh Assembly.jpg
Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
Website
Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly

The seat of the Vidhan Sabha is at Shimla, the capital of the state. The Vidhan Sabha comprises 68 Members of Legislative Assembly, which include 68 members directly elected from single-seat constituency.[2] Its term is 5 years, unless sooner dissolved.

Members of Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Constituency Electors

(2022)

Party MLA
No. Name
Chamba
1 Churah (SC) 75,468 BJP Hans Raj
2 Bharmour (ST) 76,046 BJP Janak Raj
3 Chamba 81,594 INC Niraj Nayyar
4 Dalhousie 73,071 BJP D S Thakur
5 Bhattiyat 78,980 INC Kuldip Singh Pathania
Kangra
6 Nurpur 91,269 BJP Ranveer Singh
7 Indora (SC) 91,569 INC Malender Rajan
8 Fatehpur 87,913 INC Bhawani Singh Pathania
9 Jawali 99,572 INC Chander Kumar
10 Dehra 83,629 IND Hoshyar Singh
11 Jaswan-Pragpur 77,991 BJP Bikram Thakur
12 Jawalamukhi 78,144 INC Sanjay Rattan
13 Jaisinghpur (SC) 84,018 INC Yadvinder Goma
14 Sullah 1,03,905 BJP Vipin Singh Parmar
15 Nagrota 88,867 INC Raghubir Singh Bali
16 Kangra 81,583 BJP Pawan Kumar Kajal
17 Shahpur 87,723 INC Kewal Singh Pathania
18 Dharamshala 81,516 INC Sudhir Sharma
19 Palampur 75,481 INC Ashish Butail
20 Baijnath (SC) 89,135 INC Kishori Lal
Lahaul and Spiti
21 Lahaul and Spiti (ST) 24,876 INC Ravi Thakur
Kullu
22 Manali 73,488 INC Bhuvneshwar Gaur
23 Kullu 89,600 INC Sunder Thakur
24 Banjar 73,094 BJP Surender Shourie
25 Anni (SC) 85,643 BJP Lokendra Kumar
Mandi
26 Karsog (SC) 74,909 BJP Deepraj Kapoor
27 Sundernagar 81,164 BJP Rakesh Jamwal
28 Nachan (SC) 86,208 BJP Vinod Kumar
29 Seraj 81,843 BJP Jai Ram Thakur
30 Darang 89,086 BJP Puranchand Thakur
31 Jogindernagar 98,341 BJP Prakash Rana
32 Dharampur 79,958 INC Chandershekhar
33 Mandi 76,957 BJP Anil Sharma
34 Balh (SC) 79,587 BJP Indra Singh Gandhi
35 Sarkaghat 90,837 BJP Daleep Thakur
Hamirpur
36 Bhoranj (SC) 81,134 INC Suresh Kumar
37 Sujanpur 73,922 INC Rajinder Singh Rana
38 Hamirpur 74,861 IND Ashish Sharma
39 Barsar 86,273 INC Inder Dutt Lakhanpal
40 Nadaun 93,107 INC Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu
Una
41 Chintpurni (SC) 82,686 INC Sudarshan Singh Babloo
42 Gagret 82,774 INC Chaitanya Sharma
43 Haroli 86,273 INC Mukesh Agnihotri
44 Una 85,254 BJP Satpal Singh Satti
45 Kutlehar 85,163 INC Devender Kumar Bhutto
Bilaspur
46 Jhanduta (SC) 79,577 BJP Jeet Ram Katwal
47 Ghumarwin 88,527 INC Rajesh Dharmani
48 Bilaspur 83,025 BJP Trilok Jamwal
49 Sri Naina Deviji 74,244 BJP Randhir Sharma
Solan
50 Arki 93,852 INC Sanjay Awasthy
51 Nalagarh 89,828 IND K.L. Thakur
52 Doon 68,266 INC Ram Kumar Chaudhary
53 Solan (SC) 85,238 INC Dhani Ram Shandil
54 Kasauli (SC) 67,434 INC Vinod Sultanpuri
Sirmaur
55 Pachhad (SC) 76,475 BJP Reena Kashyap
56 Nahan 83,561 INC Ajay Solanki
57 Sri Renukaji (SC) 72,961 INC Vinay Kumar
58 Paonta Sahib 82,487 BJP Sukh Ram Chaudhary
59 Shillai 74,831 INC Harshwardhan Chauhan
Shimla
60 Chopal 79,109 BJP Balbir Singh Verma
61 Theog 83,275 INC Kuldeep Singh Rathore
62 Kasumpti 65,713 INC Anirudh Singh
63 Shimla 48,071 INC Harish Janartha
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) 58,836 INC Jagat Singh Negi

History

Himachal Pradesh was the first state in India to launch paperless legislative assembly .[3][4]

List of assemblies

Election Year Assembly Ruling Party Chief Minister
1952-1957 Legislative Assembly of Part-C State of Himachal Pradesh Indian National Congress Yashwant Singh Parmar
1957-1962 Territorial Council Indian National Congress Thakur Karam Singh
1962–1967 First Assembly Indian National Congress Yashwant Singh Parmar (2)
1967–1972 Second Assembly Indian National Congress Yashwant Singh Parmar (3)
1972–1977 Third Assembly Indian National Congress Yashwant Singh Parmar (4)
1977–1982 Fourth Assembly Janata Party Shanta Kumar
1982–1985 Fifth Assembly Indian National Congress Thakur Ram Lal
Virbhadra Singh
1985–1990 Sixth Assembly Indian National Congress Virbhadra Singh (2)
1990–1992 Seventh Assembly Bharatiya Janata Party Shanta Kumar (2)
1993–1998 Eighth Assembly Indian National Congress Virbhadra Singh (3)
1998–2003 Ninth Assembly Bharatiya Janata Party Prem Kumar Dhumal
2003–2007 Tenth Assembly Indian National Congress Virbhadra Singh (4)
2007-2012 Eleventh Assembly Bharatiya Janata Party Prem Kumar Dhumal (2)
2012–2017 Twelfth Assembly Indian National Congress Virbhadra Singh (5)
2017-2022 Thirteenth Assembly Bharatiya Janata Party Jai Ram Thakur
2022 Fourteenth Assembly Indian National Congress Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu

List of Speaker and Deputy Speaker

No. of Assembly & its Period Date of its First Sitting Speaker Time Period Deputy Speaker Time Period
1st

(Territorial Council)

3-10-1963 Sh. Desh Raj Mahajan 4.10.1963 to 18-3-1967 Shri Tapendra Singh 17.10.1963  to 12.1.1967
2nd

(1967 elections)

18-3-1967 Sh.  Desh Raj Mahajan 20-3-1967 -to 19-3-1972 Sh. Amin Chand 29.3.1967  to

17-3-1972

3rd

(1972 election)

27-3-1972 Sh. Kultar Chand Rana 28.3.1972 to 9.6.1977 Sh. Lekh Ram Thakur 30.3.1972 - to 21.4.1977
4th

(1977 election))

29-6-1977 Sh. Sarvan Kumar 30.6.1977 to 18-4-1979 Sh. Ranjit Singh Verma 4-7-1977  to 9-5-1977
Sh. T.S. Negi 8-5-1979 to 21-6-1982
5th

(1982 election)

21-6-1982 Sh. T.S. Negi 22-6-1982 -to 14-9-1984 Sh. Vijay Kumar  Joshi 29.6.1982 - 23.1.1985
6th

(1985 elections)

11-3-1985 Smt. Vidya Stokes 11-3-1985 to 19-3-1990 Sh. Dev Raj Negi 7-3-1986 - 16.3.1989
7th

(1990 elections)

21-3-1990 Sh. Radha Raman Shastri 21-3-1990 to  17-8-1990 Sh. Ram Nath Sharma 29.3.1989 to 3..3.1990
Sh. T.S. Negi 20-8-1990  to - 14-12-1993 Sh. Rikhi Ram

Kaundalh

17.8.1990 -to

15-12-1992

8th

(1993 elections)

15-12-1993 Sh. Kaul Singh Thakur 15-12-1993-to 12.3.1998 Sh. Kuldip Kumar 17.12.93 - to

18.10.1995

Sh. Ishwar Dass 31.10.1995 -to

23-12-1997

9th

(1998 elections)

12-3-1998 Sh. Gulab Singh Thakur 30-3-1998 to 7.3.2003 Sh. Ram Dass Malanger 20.8.1999- to 28.1.2003
10th

(2003 elections)

10-3-2003 Sh. G.R. Mussafir 10-3-2003 Sh. Dharam Pal Thakur 27.3.2003

List of Leader of House

List of chief ministers of Himachal Pradesh (1963–71)

(Union Territory with Legislature)

No Name Constituency Term of office Assembly

(election)

Party
From To Days in office
(1) Yashwant Singh Parmar Shri Renukaji 1 July 1963 4 March 1967 7 years, 208 days 1st

(Territorial Council)

Indian National Congress
4 March 1967 25 January 1971 2nd

(1967 elections)

List of chief ministers of Himachal Pradesh (1971–present)

(State)

(1) Yashwant Singh Parmar Shri Renukaji 25 January 1971 10 March 1972 6 years, 3 days 2nd

(1967 election)

Indian National Congress
10 March 1972 28 January 1977 3rd

(1972 election)

2 Thakur Ram Lal Jubbal-Kotkhai 28 January 1977 30 April 1977 92 days
– Vacant(President's rule) N/A 30 April 1977 22 June 1977 53 days Dissolved N/A
3 Shanta Kumar Sullah 22 June 1977 14 February 1980 2 years, 237 days 4th

(1977 election)

Janata Party
(2) Thakur Ram Lal Jubbal-Kotkhai 14 February 1980 15 June 1982 3 years, 52 days Indian National Congress
15 June 1982 7 April 1983 5th

(1982 election)

4 Virbhadra Singh Jubbal-Kotkhai 8 April 1983 8 March 1985 6 years, 331 days
8 March 1985 5 March 1990 6th

(1985 elections)

(3) Shanta Kumar Palampur 5 March 1990 15 December 1992 2 years, 285 days 7th

(1990 elections)

Bharatiya Janata Party
– Vacant(President's rule) N/A 15 December 1992 3 December 1993 353 days Dissolved N/A
(4) Virbhadra Singh Rohru 3 December 1993 23 March 1998 4 years, 110 days 8th

(1993 elections)

Indian National Congress
5 Prem Kumar Dhumal Bamsan 24 March 1998 5 March 2003 4 years, 346 days 9th

(1998 elections)

Bharatiya Janata Party
(4) Virbhadra Singh Rohru 6 March 2003 30 December 2007 4 years, 299 days 10th

(2003 elections)

Indian National Congress
(5) Prem Kumar Dhumal Bamsan 30 December 2007 25 December 2012 4 years, 361 days 11th

(2007 elections)

Bharatiya Janata Party
(4) Virbhadra Singh Shimla Rural 25 December 2012 27 December 2017 5 years, 2 days 12th

(2012 elections)

Indian National Congress
6 Jai Ram Thakur Seraj 27 December 2017 8 December 2022 4 years, 348 days 13th

(2017 elections)

Bharatiya Janata Party
7 Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Nadaun 11 December 2022 Incumbent 14th

(2022 elections)

Indian National Congress

List of Leader of Opposition

No. of Assembly & its Period Leader of the Opposition Time Period Party
1st

(Territorial Council)

Dina Nath      

1.7.1963 to 11.1.1967

1.7.1963 to 11.1.1967  Swatantra Party
2nd

(1967 elections)

Kanwar Durga Chand 18.3.1967-to  1.3.1972 Jan Sangh
3rd

(1972 election)

Shanta Kumar 27.3.1972-to

30.3.1977

Jan Sangh
4th

(1977 election)

Thakur Ram Lal 29.6.1977-to

13.2.1980

Indian National Congress
5th

(1982 election)

Shanta Kumar 1982 -11.3.1985 Bharatiya Janata Party
6th

(1985 elections)

Jagdev Chand 11.3.1985 -

3.3.1990

Bharatiya Janata Party
7th

(1990 elections)

Vidya Stokes 21.3.1990 -

15.12.1992

Indian National Congress
8th

(1993 elections)

Jaya Prakash Nadda 1.12.1993-

24.12.1997

Bharatiya Janata Party
9th

(1998 elections)

Virbhadra Singh 24.12.1997 -4.3.2003 Indian National Congress
10th

(2003 elections)

Prem Kumar Dhumal Bharatiya Janata Party
(9th)

(2007 elections)

Virbhadra Singh Indian National Congress
(10th)

(2012 elections)

Prem Kumar Dhumal Bharatiya Janata Party
11th

(2017 elections)

Mukesh Agnihotri 5.1.2018 – 8.12.2022 Indian National Congress

See also


References

  1. ^ "Congress leader Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has claimed that BJP MLAs can break. With this, he said that the government will be formed in Himachal with a huge majority. Along with this, the support of 3 independent MLAs will also be with the government".
  2. ^ "Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly". Legislative Bodies in India website. Retrieved 9 December 2010.
  3. ^ "India gets its first paperless as Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly also known as e-Vidhan". theindianexpress.com.
  4. ^ "India's first digital or e-vidhansabha assembly in Himachal Pradesh". Amar Ujala (in Hindi).
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