Himachal Pradesh election 2022: Bilaspur Assembly constituency, is one of the 68 assembly constituencies of Himachal Pradesh. It is a segment of Hamirpur Pradesh Lok Sabha constituency. BJP MLA Subhash Thakur represents the constituency in the assembly.
BJP candidate Trilok Jamwal won the seat with thin margin of 276 votes.
In the 2017 assembly election, he defeated Congress candidate Bumber Thakur by 6862 votes.
It is a high-stakes constituency for BJP because it is home to BJP president JP Nadda. Nadda was first elected to the Himachal Pradesh Legislative
Assembly in the election of 1993 from Bilaspur. He was re-elected in 1993 and 1998. He was Bilaspur MLA till 2007.
The seat keeps swinging from BJP to Congress. In 2012, Congress leader Bumber Thakur defeated BJP candidate Suresh Chandel, by 5141 votes.
In 2022, BJP, smelling trouble, changed hits candidate and gave a ticket to Trilok Jamwal, while Congress batted for its old guard Bumber Thakur.
List of Candidates for Bilaspur poll battle 2022
- Candidate Party Criminal Cases Education Age
- Amar Nath BSP 0 10th Pass 60
- Amar Singh AAP 1 Graduate 49
- Bumber Thakur INC 2 Graduate 55
- Trilok Jamwal BJP 0 Post Graduate 48
Voting for all 68 assembly seats in the state was held on November 12 and the counting of votes took place on December 8.
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