By virtue of its powers, duties and functions under Article 324 read with Article 172 (1) of the Constitution of India and Section 15 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, the election commission holds the election to constitute the new Legislative Assembly in the state of Himachal Pradesh.
- Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly – 13th
- Type – Unicameral
- Total number of Vidhan Sabha seats in Himachal Pradesh – 68
- Reserved for Schedule Castes – 17
- Reserved for Schedule Tribes – 3
- Total number of Polling Stations – 7479
- All Women Polling Stations – 136 (Two Polling Stations in each Constituency)
- Candidate won with highest margin of votes: Vinod Kumar – BJP (Nachan), Votes margin – 15896
- Candidate won with lowest margin of votes: Jagat Singh Negi – INC (Kinnaur), Votes margin – 120
First time MLAs – 22 (BJP – 17, INC – 3, IND – 2) Jia Lal, Rita Dhiman, Arjun Singh, Hoshiar Singh, Ravinder Kumar, Arun Kumar, Ashish Butail, Mulkhraj Premi, Sunder Singh Thakur, Surender Shourie, Rakesh Jamwal, Jawahar Thakur, Parkash Rana, Inder Singh, Rajesh Thakur, Satpal Raizada, JR Katwal, Subhash Thakur, Kamlesh Kumari, Vikramaditya Singh, Parmjeet Pammi and Pawan Nayyar.
First time cabinet ministers – 5 (Vipin Parmar, Virender Kanwar, Bikram Singh, Govind Singh Thakur and Rajiv Shejal )
Vidhan Sabha seats distribution (2017):
- BJP – 44
- Congress – 21
- CPI (M) – 1 (Rakesh Singha – Theog)
- Independent – 2
Total number of women candidates (winner) – 4
- Asha Kumari – INC (Dalhousie)
- Kamlesh Kumari – BJP (Bhoranj)
- Rita Devi – BJP (Indora)
- Sarveen Chaudhary – BJP (Shahpur)
This number increased to 5 when Reena Kashyap (BJP) from Pacchad Vidhan Sabha Constituency won her seat in the by-election held on 21 October 2019.
Two Independent Candidates:
- Prakash Rana – Jogdinder Nagar
- Hoshyar Singh – Dehra
Votes Percentage:
- Total Voting – 75.28 %
- BJP – 48.8 % (1846432)
- INC – 41.7 % (1577420)
- IND – 6.3 % (239989)
- CPM – 1.5 % (55558)
- BSP – 0.5 % (18540)
- NOTA – 0.9 % (34232)
Seats Distribution District Wise:
| District | Total Seats | BJP | Congress | CPM | IND |
| Kangra | 15 | 11 | 3 | – | 1 |
| Mandi | 10 | 9 | – | – | 1 |
| Kullu | 4 | 3 | 1 | – | – |
| Kinnaur | 1 | – | 1 | – | – |
| Lahaul – Spiti | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Una | 5 | 3 | 2 | – | – |
| Shimla | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | – |
| Bilaspur | 4 | 3 | 1 | – | – |
| Solan | 5 | 2 | 3 | – | – |
| Sirmaur | 5 | 3 | 2 | – | – |
| Hamirpur | 5 | 2 | 3 | – | – |
| Chamba | 5 | 4 | 1 | – | – |
| Total | 68 | 44 | 21 | 1 | 2 |