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Bharatiya Janta Party on Shimla

State 2 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat
Record on this seat

WON 9 OF 11 contested

BJP runner-up 2 times
Strike rate
81.8%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 11 published candidatures
Best vote share66.40%in 2019
Worst vote share29.90%in 1984
Average vote share49.92% mean across contests carrying a share
First contested1984
Last contested2024
Votes polled here35.81 Lacross all 11 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held
Line chart: Bharatiya Janta Party vote share in Shimla, Lok Sabha, 1977 to 2024. Vertical axis 0 to 70 per cent. Years the party did not contest are left blank rather than plotted at zero. Ringed points are years it won the seat.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%1977198019841989199119961998199920042009201420192024

Bharatiya Janta Party vote share  ·  a ringed point is a year they won this seat  ·  a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 1977, 1980 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

11 candidatures · most recent first
Year Candidate Votes Vote % Position Result
2024 Suresh Kumar Kashyap 5,19,748 53.60% 1 Won
2019 Suresh Kumar Kashyap 6,06,183 66.40% 1 Won
2014 Virender Kashyap 3,85,973 52.30% 1 Won
2009 Virender Kashyap 3,10,946 50.40% 1 Won
2004 Suresh Chandel 3,13,243 48.20% 1 Won
1999 Suresh Chandel 3,36,172 60.10% 1 Won
1998 Suresh Chandel 3,19,631 49.90% 1 Won
1996 Prem Kumar Dhumal 2,27,926 45.60% 2 Lost · 2nd
1991 Prem Kumar Dhumal 2,05,970 45.00% 1 Won
1989 Thakur Prem Kumar Dhumal 2,37,429 47.70% 1 Won
1984 Prem Kumar Dhumel 1,17,281 29.90% 2 Lost · 2nd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National CongressBharatiya Lok DalIndian National Congress (I)Janta PartyIndependentBahujan Samaj PartyCommunist Party Of IndiaJanata DalAam Aadmi PartyHimachal Vikash CongressDoordarshi PartyAll India Forward BlocCommunist Party Of India (MARXIST)Rashtriya Devbhumi PartyJharkhand PartyAkhil Bhartiya Parivar PartyJanata Dal (Secular)Samajwadi PartyAll India Rashtriya Janata PartyNationalist Congress PartyRashtriya Azad ManchIndian Congress (SOCIALIST)Janata Pary (JP)Shiv SenaSamata PartyIndian Congress (SOCIALIST- SARAT CHANDRA SINHA)Rashtriya Nayay PartyAll India Indira Congress (TIWARI)

Provisional Candidate-wise results, Lok Sabha, Shimla
Publisher
Election Commission of India
Retrieved
2026-09-12
Computed
2026-09-12 17:34 UTC

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