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[[File:Himachal Pradesh in India.png|thumb|right|[[Himachal Pradesh, India|Himachal Pradesh]]]]
'''Elections in Himachal Pradesh''' for the [[Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] in [[Himachal Pradesh]] state, India are conducted in accordance with the [[Constitution of India]].
== Lok Sabha elections ==
{{See also|Lok Sabha}}

{| class="wikitable"
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Lok Sabha election
! scope="col" colspan="2" | Party-wise details
|-
! scope="row" | 1951
| [[1951 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|1st Lok Sabha]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|INC}}" |
| Total: 3. [[Indian National Congress|INC]]: 3
|-
! scope="row" | 1957
| [[1957 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|2nd Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|INC}}" |
| Total: 4. [[Indian National Congress|INC]]: 4
|-
! scope="row" | 1962
| [[1962 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|3rd Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|INC}}" |
| Total: 4. [[Indian National Congress|INC]]: 4
|-
! scope="row" | 1967
| [[1967 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|4th Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|INC}}" |
| Total: 6. [[Indian National Congress|INC]]: 6
|-
! scope="row" | 1971
| [[1971 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|5th Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|INC}}" |
| Total: 4. [[Indian National Congress|INC]]: 4
|-
! scope="row" | 1977
| [[1977 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|6th Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Dal}}" |
| Total: 4. [[Janata Party|Janata Party/BLD]]: 4.
|-
! scope="row" | 1980
| [[1980 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|7th Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|INC}}" |
| Total: 4. [[Indian National Congress|INC]]: 4
|-
! scope="row" | 1984
| [[1984 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|8th Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|INC}}" |
| Total: 4. [[Indian National Congress|INC]]: 4
|-
! scope="row" | 1989
| [[1989 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|9th Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|BJP}}" |
| Total: 4. [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]: 3, [[Indian National Congress|INC]]: 1
|-
! scope="row" | 1991
| [[1991 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|10th Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: grey" |
| Total: 4. [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]: 2, [[Indian National Congress|INC]]: 2
|-
! scope="row" | 1996
| [[1996 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|11th Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|INC}}" |
| Total: 4. [[Indian National Congress|INC]]: 4
|-
! scope="row" | 1998
| [[1998 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|12th Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|BJP}}" |
| Total: 4. [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]: 3, [[Indian National Congress|INC]]: 1
|-
! scope="row" | 1999
| [[1999 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|13th Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|BJP}}" |
| Total: 4. [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]: 3, [[Himachal Vikas Congress|HVC]]: 1
|-
! scope="row" | 2004
| [[2004 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|14th Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|INC}}" |
| Total: 4. [[Indian National Congress|INC]]: 3, [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]: 1
|-
! scope="row" | 2009
| [[2009 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|15th Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|BJP}}" |
| Total: 4. [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]: 3, [[Indian National Congress|INC]]: 1
|-
! scope="row" | 2014
| [[2014 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|16th Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|BJP}}" |
| Total: 4. [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]: 4
|-
! scope="row" | 2019
| [[2019 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|17th Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|BJP}}" |
| Total: 4. [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]: 4
|}

'''Keys:'''
{{legend2|#FF9933|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] (-) |border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#00BFFF|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] (-) |border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! rowspan="2" |[[List of Indian general elections|Election]]
! rowspan="2" |[[Lok Sabha]]
! colspan="3" |Party-wise details
! colspan="6" |[[List of parliamentary constituencies in Uttarakhand|Constituencies]]
! rowspan="2" |Ref.
|-style="text-align:center; height:30px;"
! colspan="2" |Party
! [[List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha|Seats]]
! Kangra
! Mandi
! Hamirpur
! Shimla
!
!
|- style="text-align:center; height:30px;"
|[[2014 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|2014]]
|[[16th Lok Sabha]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|4
|bgcolor=#FF9933|BJP
|bgcolor=#FF9933|BJP
|bgcolor=#FF9933|BJP
|bgcolor=#FF9933|BJP
|
|
|
|- style="text-align:center; height:30px;"

|[[2019 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh|2019]]
|[[17th Lok Sabha]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|4
|bgcolor=#FF9933|BJP
|bgcolor=#FF9933|BJP
|bgcolor=#FF9933|BJP
|bgcolor=#FF9933|BJP
|
|
|
|-

|[[Next Indian general election|''Next'']]
|[[Lok Sabha|''18th Lok Sabha'']]
|
|''TBD''
|''TBD''
|''TBD''
|''TBD''
|''TBD''
|''TBD''
|
|
|
|-

|}

==Legislative Assembly elections==
===1952 Legislative Assembly election===
{{Main|1952 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}

===1967 Legislative Assembly election===
{{Main|1967 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}

===1972 Legislative Assembly election===
{{Main|1972 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}

===1977 Legislative Assembly election===
{{Main|1977 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}

===1985 Legislative Assembly election===
{{Main|1985 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}

===1990 Legislative Assembly election===
{{Main|1990 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}

===1993 Legislative Assembly election===
{{Main|1993 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}

===1998 Legislative Assembly election===
{{Main|1998 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}

===2003 Legislative Assembly election===
{{Main|2003 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}

===2007 Legislative Assembly election===
{{Main|2007 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}
The 2007 Himachal Pradesh legislative assembly election were held in [[Himachal Pradesh]] in 2007.

===2012 Legislative Assembly election===
{{Main|2012 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}
The 2012 Himachal Pradesh legislative assembly election, 2012 was held in [[Himachal Pradesh]], India in 2012 after the five-year term of the incumbent state legislature and government expired following the [[2007 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|assembly elections of 2007]]. The election chose 68 MLAs to the ''[[Vidhan Sabha]]''.

The results were declared on 20 December 2012. Congress defeated BJP and won outright majority by securing 36 of the 68 seats under the leadership of Virbhadra Singh - thus proving most of the pollsters and exit polls wrong, which had predicted a photo-finish. The BJP lagged far behind with just 26 seats in its kitty whereas its breakaway faction HLP won just 1 seat. The Congress won despite some 'unpopular' decisions made by the Congress-led Central government days before the election as part of its economic reforms, and the victory is likely to boost such reforms by the Centre.

Both Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh had BJP governments and went to polls together. But unlike Gujarat, where the BJP under the leadership of [[Narendra Modi]] retained power by winning a massive 115 out of 182 seats, in Himachal Pradesh, the Prem Kumar Dhumal-led BJP lost due to a huge anti-incumbency wave.

Cong veteran leader Virbhadra Singh takes oath for record sixth term as Himachal chief minister at historic Ridge ground in Shimla on 25 December 2012.

===2017 Legislative Assembly election===
{{Main|2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}
BJP won 44 out of 68 seats to form the government, ousting Congress party from power. [[Indian National Congress]] won 21 seats. Jai Ram Thakur was appointed as Chief Minister after the elections.

'''Keys:'''
{{legend2|#FF9933|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] (-) |border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#00BFFF|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] (-) |border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#22409A|[[Bahujan Samaj Party|BSP]] (-) |border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#336666|[[Uttarakhand Kranti Dal|UKD/UKD(P)]] (-) |border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#00B2B2|[[Nationalist Congress Party|NCP]] (-) |border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#DDDDDD|[[Independent politician|Independent]] (-) |border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#FF0000|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPIM]] (-) |border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! rowspan="2" | [[List of Indian state legislative assembly elections|Election]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly|Vidhan Sabha]]
! colspan="3" | Party-wise details
! rowspan="2" | [[List of chief ministers of Himachal Pradesh|Chief Minister]]
! rowspan="2" | Party
|-
! colspan="2" | Party
! [[List of constituencies of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly|Seats]]
|-

| rowspan="5" |[[2012 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2012]]
| rowspan="5" |[[12th Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh|12th Vidhan Sabha]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|36
| rowspan="5" |[[Virbhadra Singh]]<br />{{small|(2012–2017)}}
| rowspan="5"; bgcolor=#00BFFF|INC
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|26
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Independent politician}}" |
|[[Independent politician|Independent]]
|5
|-
|bgcolor=#00B2B2|
| [[Himachal Lokhit Party|HLP]]
|1
|-
|colspan="2" |'''Total'''
|'''68'''
|-

| rowspan="5" |[[2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2017]]
| rowspan="5" |[[13th Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh|13th Vidhan Sabha]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|44
| rowspan="5" | [[File:JRThakur.jpg|50px]]
[[Jai Ram Thakur]]<br />{{small|(2017–incumbent)}}
| rowspan="5"; bgcolor=#FF9933|BJP
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|21
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Independent politician}}" |
|[[Independent politician|Independent]]
|2
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |
| [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPIM]]
|1
|-
|colspan="2" |'''Total'''
|'''68'''
|-

|[[2022 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2022]]
|[[Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly|''14th Vidhan Sabha'']]
|colspan="2" |'''''Total'''''
|'''''68'''''
|''TBD''
|''TBD''
|-
|}

==See also==
* [[All India Tribes and Minorities Front]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* [https://www.loksabhaelections.in/himachal-pradesh Himachal Pradesh Election Results]

{{Himachal Pradesh elections}}

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