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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

2012 Himachal Pradesh Assembly Elections


The Election Commission on Wednesday Oct 03,2012 announced that Himachal Pradesh will vote on November 4,2012 and the counting for the 68 Seats of the Assembly elections will take place on December 20,2012.

Addressing a press conference in the national capital on Wednesday,Oct 03,2012 Chief Election Commissioner(CEC) VS Sampath said that with the announcement of the dates for the elections, model code of conduct has come into place in both Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh with immediate effect.

The term of the  68-member Himachal Assembly ends on January 10, 2013, said the CEC.


Important dates and facts about Himachal Pradesh poll:

 
  • Total assembly constituencies: 68
  • Reserved for SC: 17
  • Reserved for ST: 3
  • Total no. of electors: 45,16,054
  • Total no. of polling stations: 7,252
  • Issue of notification: October 10, 2012
  • Last date for making nominations: October 17, 2012
  • Scrutiny of nominations: October 18, 2012
  • Last date for withdrawal of candidature: October 20, 2012
  • Date of poll: November 4, 2012












  • Date before which election process shall be completed: December 24, 2012
  • Counting of votes: December 20, 2012 
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    Seats Won and the % of the Votes Polled Trends


    1)Churah-SC - Surender Bhardwaj
    2) Bharmour-ST - Thakur Singh Bharmouri
    3) Chamba - Pawan Nayyar
    4) Dalhousie - Asha Kumari
    5) Bhattiyat - Kuldeep Singh Pathania
    6) Nurpur - Ajay Mahajan
    7)Indora-SC - Kamal Kishor
    8)Fatehpur - Sujan Singh Pathania
    9) Jawali - Neeraj Bharti
    10)Dehra - Brig Rajinder Singh Rana
    11) Jaswan-Pragpur - Nikhil Rajour
    12)Jawalamukhi - Sanjay Rattan
    13)Jaisinghpur-SC - Yadvinder Goma
    14)Sullah - Jagniwal Pal
    15)Nagrota - G S Bali
    16)Kangra - Surender Kumar
    17) Shahpur - Maj Vijay Singh Mankotia
    18) Dharamshala - Sudir Sharma
    19) Palampur-Brij Bihari Lal Butail
    20) Baijnath-SC - Kishori Lal
    21)Lahaul & Spiti-ST - Ravi Thakur
    22) Manali - Bhuvneshwar Gaur
    23) Kullu - Sunder Singh Thakur
    24) Banjar - Karan Singh
    25) Anni-SC - Ishwar Dass
    26)Karsog-SC - Khub Ram
    27) Sundernagar - Sohan Lal
    28) Nachan-SC - Tek Chand Dogra
    29) Seraj - Tara Thakur
    30) Darang - Kaul Singh Thakur
    31) Jogindernagar - Surender Pal Thakur
    32) Dharampur - Chander Shekhar
    33) Mandi - Anil Sharma
    34) Balh-SC- Prakash Chaudhary
    35)Sarkaghat- Rangila Ram Rao
    36) Bhoranj-SC - Ramesh Dogra
    37)Sujanpur - Anita Verma
    38) Hamirpur - Narendra Thakur
    39) Barsar - Inder Dutt Lakhanpal
    40) Nadaun - Sushvinder Singh Sukhu
    41) Chintpurni-SC - Kuldeep Kumar
    42) Gagret - Rakesh Kalia
    43) Haroli - Mukesh Agnihotri
    44) Una - Satpal Raizada
    45) Kutlehar - Ram Das Malagar
    46)Jhanduta-SC - Biru Ram Kishore
    47) Ghumarwin - Rajesh Dharmani
    48) Bilaspur - Bumber Thakur
    49) Sri Naina Deviji - Ram Lal Thakur
    50)Arki - Sanjay Awasthi
    51)Nalagarh - Lakhvinder Singh Rana
    52) Doon - Ram Kumar
    53)Solan-SC - Dhani Ram Shandil
    54) Kasauli-SC - Vinod Sultanpuri
    55) Pachhad-SC - Gangu Ram Musafir
    56) Nahan - Kush Parmar
    57)Sri Renukaji-SC - Vinay Kumar
    58)Paonta Sahib - Sardar Onkar Singh
    59) Shillai - Harshwardhan Chauhan
    60) Chopal - Subhash Chand Manglate
    61) Theog - Vidya Stokes
    62) Kasumpti - Anirudh Singh
    63) Shimla - Harish Janartha
    64) Shimla Rural - Virbhadra Singh
    65) Jubbal-Kotkhai - Rohit Thakur
    66) Rampur-SC - Nand Lal
    67) Rohru-SC - Mohan Lal Brakta and
    68)Kinnaur-ST - Jagat Singh Negi.
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    Who Will Win?  Virbhadra Singh(INC) or P K Dhumal(BJP)

    Arrangements in place for Himachal polls

    60 companies of central paramilitary forces, including ITBP and CRPF, will be deployed in Himachal Pradesh to ensure free and fair elections at 7,253 polling booths on November 4,2012

    25 companies of ITBP, 15 companies of SSB, 10 of CRPF and 10 companies of BSF would be deployed at the polling booths

    There are 46,08,359 electors including 45,33,713 general electors and 74,646 service electors.All 68 constituencies, including three tribal, would go to polls in a single phase and the ballot boxes would be kept under security for about seven weeks till the day of counting which would take place on Dec 20,2012.

    The sale of liquor has been banned for 48 hours and dry days have been declared from 5.00 AM on November 2 to 5.00 PM on Nov 4,2012. 

    Himachal Pradesh AssemblyElection - Nov 04,2012

    Led by Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, the incumbent BJP is hoping to script history in the state by going the Punjab way, where the Akali-BJP combine returned to power against historical projections.Much like Punjab, Himachal Pradesh has never repeated a government since 1977.

    The BJP and Congress are contesting all 68 seats while BSP has fielded 66 candidates followed by Himachal Lokhit Party (36), TMC (25), SP (16), CPI-M (15), NCP and Swabhiman Party (12 each), CPI (7), Shiv Sena (4) and 105 Independents.

    In all, 459 candidates are in the fray for tomorrow's elections, 27 of them women. As many as 7253 polling stations have been set up, including the highest polling station in Hikkim in Lahaul and Spiti at a height of over 15,000 feet .

    World's Highest Polling Centre -  Hikkim


    Hikkim, the "world's highest polling centre" is preparing for polls as the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh votes in the regional elections on Sunday Nov 04,2012.

    Located at 15,000ft (4,572m) above sea level in the Himalayas, it has been described as the highest in the world by the election commission.

    "The Hikkim polling station caters to the three villages of Komik, Langche and Hikkim and has 326 voters," said SS Guleria, senior official in Lahaul and Spiti district, which borders Tibet.

    Voters from three villages, most of them Buddhists, will cast their ballots at the Hikkim polling centre.

       

    HP Assembly Polls - Polling Day - Sunday Nov 4,2012



     

    Himachal Pradesh on Sunday registered a record high polling of around 75 % in elections for 68 assembly constituencies, Election Commission officials said. The state's Chief Electoral Officer, Narinder Chauhan, said in Shimla, "The voter turnout was approximately 75 %."  

    The maximum turnout was in Sirmaur district (81.48 per cent), followed by Solan district (80.34 per cent), Kullu district (78.74 per cent), Mandi (76.95 per cent) and Chamba (75.25 per cent). The state's largest district Kangra, with the maximum number of 15 seats, saw 72.25 per cent polling. 

    India's highest polling booth in Lahaul-Spiti district recorded 80 per cent turnout. At the Hikkim polling station, located at an altitude of 14,567 feet, 267 voters out of the 333 on the rolls cast votes

    Congress leader and five-time chief minister Virbhadra Singh cast his vote at his native place in Rampur town, around 120 km from Shimla

     

    Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister P. K. Dhumal flashes victory sign after casting his vote for Assembly elections at a polling station in Samirpur

     A 99-yr old voter arrives to cast his vote for the HP Assembly Polls at a polling station in Kullu

     

     

     

    A 95-yr-old woman shows her voter identity card outside a polling station during HP AssemblyPolls in Kullu.

     

    In 2007 assembly polls, the poll percentage was 71.61 per cent, in 2003 it was 74.51 per cent, in 1998 it was 71.23 per cent, in 1993 it was 71.50 per cent and in 1990 it was 67.76 per cent. 

     

     2012 Himachal Pradesh Assembly Polls Results -  Dec 20,2012


    As many as 33.49 lakh voters had exercised their franchise in the one-day polling on Nov 4,2012 and sealed the fate of 459 candidates including Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and HPCC chief Virbhadra Singh. The state recorded highest polling of 74.70 % which was slightly higher than the 74.51 % polling in 2003.


    The INC returned to power in Himachal Pradesh after five years, defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party.

    Party          No of Seats Won    No of Votes Secured    Vote %
    BJP                         26                    2633980                        39
    INC                        36                    2894484                        43
    Others                       6                    1265916                        19
    Total                       68


    The INC led by former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh emerge victorious.

    Virbhadra Singh wins Shimla(Rural) constituency defeating his BJP rival Ishwar Rohal by 19,033 votes. 
    BJP leader and Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal won from the Hamirpur seat defeating his nearest INC's Narinder Thakur by a margin of over 9,500 votes

    BJP concedes defeat in Himachal Pradesh polls 

     

    The BJP on Thursday Dec 20,2012 conceded defeat in Himachal Pradesh with senior leader Shanta Kumar saying that the party accepted the poll verdict. "We accept the verdict. All people in the BJP had fought elections together. The people did not vote for us. We accept it," Shanta Kumar, a former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister told reporters.

    Virbhadra Singh takes oath as Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister

     

    INC'sVirbhadra Singh(78) was sworn in as Himachal Pradesh's Chief Minister for a record sixth term andas the hill state's 13th chief minister in the presence of thousands of his supporters in Shimla on Tuesday Dec 25,2012. 

                                                                                  


    Governor Urmila Singh administered the oath of office at the historic Ridge in Shimla.

    Note

    Belonging to the erstwhile princely state of Rampur Bushahr, Virbhadra Singh entered politics at the age of 28.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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