Himachal Pradesh Election 2022: Kasumpti Assembly Seat
]Himachal Pradesh Election: Kasumpti Assembly Constituency 2022
Kasumpti comes under the Shimla district and it is one of the 68 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituencies . People of Kasumpti voted for Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 on November 12 and the result was declared on December 8.
In 2017, the Kasumpti assembly seat had 58,553 registered voters. Of the, 30,943 were male and 27,610 were female voters. 0.7% of votes were casted for NOTA.
In the 2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election, there were 7 candidates in the fray from Kasumpti constituency. Kasumpti was one of 21 seats won by the Indian National Congress. It was a one way contest with Indian National Congress's Anirudh Singh comfortably winning the election upstaging Bharatiya Janta Party's Vijay Jyoti by a huge margin of 9,397 votes.
96.6% of the total votes were casted to top three candidates. Indian National Congress's Anirudh Singh grabbed a total of 22,061 votes, while Bharatiya Janta Party's Vijay Jyoti got 12,664 votes. Communist Party Of India (Marxist)'s candidate Kuldip Singh Tanwar bagged 4,698 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties registered 54.1%, 31.0% and 11.5% respectively.
In Himachal Pradesh Assembly election 2012, Indian National Congress's Anirudh Singh defeated Bharatiya Janta Party's Prem Singh by 9,886 votes.