Himachal Pradesh Election 2022: Nurpur Assembly Seat
Himachal Pradesh Election: Nurpur Assembly Constituency 2022
Nurpur is the assembly constituency which comes under the Kangra district. It is one of the 68 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituencies . Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 for Nurpur will be held on November 12 and the result was declared on December 8.
Nurpur assembly constituency had 77,654 electors in 2017, out of which 40,414 were male voters and 37,240 females. The None of the Above (NOTA) option got 0.6% votes.
In 2017, 3 candidates were contesting for Nurpur assembly constituency seat. Nurpur was one of 44 seats won by the Bharatiya Janta Party. Bharatiya Janta Party's Rakesh Pathania won the election by defeating Indian National Congress's Ajay Mahajan by a margin of 6,642 votes.
99.2% of the total votes were casted to top two candidates. Bharatiya Janta Party's Rakesh Pathania got a total of 34,871 votes, while Indian National Congress's Ajay Mahajan got 28,229 votes. Bahujan Samaj Party's candidate Harnam Singh grabbed 484 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties secured 54.8%, 44.4% and 0.8% respectively.
In Himachal Pradesh Assembly election 2012, Indian National Congress's Ajay Mahajan outperformed independent candidate Rakesh Pathania by 3,367 votes.