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All 68 seats in theHimachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly 35 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 3,628,864 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 71.23% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elections to theHimachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in 1998 to elect members of the 68 constituencies inHimachal Pradesh, India. TheIndian National Congress and theBharatiya Janata Party won an equal number of seats, but the BJP managed to form the government by allying with theHimachal Vikas Congress, andPrem Kumar Dhumal was appointed as theChief Minister of Himachal Pradesh.[1][2][3] The number of constituencies was set as 68 by the recommendation of theDelimitation Commission of India.[4]
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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| Bharatiya Janata Party |  |  | Prem Kumar Dhumal | 68 | |
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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| Indian National Congress |  |  | Virbhadra Singh | 68 | |
| Party | flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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| Himachal Vikas Congress |  | Anil Sharma | 62 | ||
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Indian National Congress | 1,110,055 | 43.50 | 31 |  21 | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 995,482 | 39.01 | 31 |  23 | |
| Himachal Vikas Congress | 245,584 | 9.62 | 5 | New | |
| Others | 93,693 | 3.67 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 106,764 | 4.18 | 1 | 6 | |
| Total | 2,551,578 | 100.00 | 68 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 2,551,578 | 98.72 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 33,206 | 1.28 | |||
| Total votes | 2,584,784 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 3,628,864 | 71.23 | |||
| Source: ECI[5] | |||||
He is an Indian politician who has twice been Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh from March 1998 to March 2003 and again ...
