BJP's Anil Sharma has won the Mandi constituency by a margin of 10,006 votes. Sharma got 31,303 votes. He has defeated his nearest rival Champa Thakur of the Congress, who polled 21,297 votes, as per the latest data from the Election Commission of India.
Mandi is an assembly constituency in the Mandi district in the upper Himachal region of Himachal Pradesh. The Mandi legislative assembly constituency went to the polls on November 12, 2022. The assembly seat is reserved for the general category and falls in the Mandi Lok Sabha constituency.
This year the key candidates from the Mandi constituency were Anil Sharma (BJP), Champa Thakur (Congress), and Chet Ram (BSP). As per the latest reports, BJP's Anil Sharma is leading by 10,006 votes in the constituency. Sharma got 31,303 votes and Champa Thakur bagged 21,297 votes, according to the latest data from the Election Commission of India.
In the December 2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, Mandi was won by Anil Sharma of the BJP. Anil Sharma defeated Champa Thakur of the Congress party.
Before that, in the 2012 Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha elections, the seat was held by Congress party's Anil Kumar.
| Assembly election year | Winning Party | Margin of victory |
| 2012 | Congress | 8.1% |
| 2017 | BJP | 19.06% |
| 2022 | BJP | 17.06 |
In the 2017 assembly polls, Anil Sharma garnered 31,282 votes, securing 56.63 percent of the vote share and winning the seat by a margin of 10,257 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 19.06 percent.
The total number of voters in the Mandi constituency stands at 78,113. The Mandi constituency has a literacy level of 81.53 percent.
(Edited by : Sudarsanan Mani)
First Published: Dec 7, 2022 10:56 PM IST
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