Himachal Pradesh Election 2022: Sujanpur Assembly Seat
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Himachal Pradesh Election: Sujanpur Assembly Constituency 2022
Sujanpur comes under the Hamirpur district and it is one of the 68 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituencies . People of Sujanpur voted for Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 on November 12 and the result was declared on December 8.
In 2017, the Sujanpur assembly seat had 66,153 registered voters. Of the, 31,991 were male and 34,162 were female voters. 0.7% of votes were casted for NOTA.
In the 2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election, there were 5 candidates in the fray from Sujanpur constituency. Sujanpur was one of 21 seats won by the Indian National Congress. It was a close contest with Indian National Congress's Rajinder Rana winning the election upstaging Bharatiya Janta Party's Prem Kumar Dhumal by a margin of just 1,919 votes.
96.9% of the total votes were casted to top two candidates. Indian National Congress's Rajinder Rana got a total of 25,288 votes, while Bharatiya Janta Party's Prem Kumar Dhumal got 23,369 votes. Communist Party Of India (Marxist)'s candidate Joginder Kumar Thakur grabbed 1,023 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties secured 50.4%, 46.5% and 2.0% respectively.
In Himachal Pradesh Assembly election 2012, Independent candidate Rajinder Singh defeated Indian National Congress's Anita Verma by 14,166 votes.