Himachal Pradesh Election 2022: Baijnath Assembly Seat
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Himachal Pradesh Election: Baijnath Assembly Constituency 2022
Baijnath comes under the Kangra district and it is one of the 68 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituencies . People of Baijnath voted for Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 on November 12 and the result was declared on December 8.
Baijnath assembly constituency had 76,148 electors in 2017, out of which 38,699 were male voters and 37,449 females. The None of the Above (NOTA) option got 0.8% votes.
In 2017, 4 candidates were competing for Baijnath assembly constituency seat. Baijnath was one of 44 seats won by the Bharatiya Janta Party. It was a one way contest with Bharatiya Janta Party's Mulkh Raj comfortably winning the election defeating Indian National Congress's Kishori Lal by a huge margin of 12,669 votes.
The top two candidates split 98.4% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janta Party's Mulkh Raj got a total of 32,102 votes, while Indian National Congress's Kishori Lal secured 19,433 votes. Bahujan Samaj Party's candidate Ramesh Chand secured 510 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 61.3%, 37.1% and 1.0% respectively.
In Himachal Pradesh Assembly election 2012, Indian National Congress's Kishori Lal defeated Bharatiya Janta Party's Mulkh Raj by 6,652 votes.