Madhya Pradesh Election 2022: Gagret Assembly Seat
Madhya Pradesh Election: Gagret Assembly Constituency 2022
Gagret comes under the Una district and it is one of the 68 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituencies . People of Gagret voted for Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 on November 12 and the result was declared on December 8.
Gagret assembly constituency had 73,079 electors in 2017, out of which 37,158 were male voters and 35,921 females. The None of the Above (NOTA) option got 0.5% votes.
In the 2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election, there were 4 candidates in the fray from Gagret constituency. Gagret was one of 44 seats won by the Bharatiya Janta Party. Bharatiya Janta Party's Rajesh Thakur won the election upstaging Indian National Congress's Rakesh Kalia by a margin of 9,320 votes.
The top two candidates split 98.9% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janta Party's Rajesh Thakur got a total of 33,977 votes, while Indian National Congress's Rakesh Kalia secured 24,657 votes. Independent candidate Subhash Sharma secured 379 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 57.3%, 41.6% and 0.6% respectively.
In Himachal Pradesh Assembly election 2012, Indian National Congress's Rakesh Kalia beat Bharatiya Janta Party's Sushil Kumar Kalia by 4,897 votes.