Himachal Pradesh Election Exit Polls Result 2022: Himachal Pradesh had registered a record voter turnout at 75.6 per cent in the assembly election. The state went for a single-phase voting. The final turnout recorded in the 2017 assembly polls was 75.57 per cent. While 76.8 per cent of the total female electorate exercised their franchise, it was 72.4 per cent among men. The third gender poll percentage was 68.4 per cent. The total males in the electorate were 27.88 lakh and females were 27.36 lakh. The third gender voters who had registered themselves were 38.

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Himachal Pradesh Election Result 2022: Exit polls date

The results of exit polls can be shown after 5.30 pm on December 5. 

Himachal Pradesh Election Result 2022: Counting date 

The counting for Himachal Pradesh Election Result 2022 will take place on December 8.

Citing reports received at state headquarters, the approximate poll percentage in the state stands at 75.6 per cent, state Chief Electoral Officer Maneesh Garg said in a statement. 

The highest polling percentage of 85.25 per cent was reported from the Doon assembly constituency and the lowest polling percentage of 62.53 per cent was in Shimla assembly seat at the end of the poll.

In this assembly polls, the state election department had laid a lot of focus on 11 constituencies with low voter turnout in 2017 polls, the statement noted.

A comparative analysis of these constituencies - Dharampur, Jaisinghpur, Shimla, Baijnath, Bhoranj, Solan, Kasumpati, Sarkaghat, Jaswan Pragpur, Hamirpur and Badsar - revealed that out of 11 seats, the voter turnout eventually improved in nine of them by up to seven per cent.

The percentage point increase in Dharampur seat was 6.93 from 63.6 pc in 2017 to 70.54 per cent in the just-concluded poll. However, in Shimla and Baijnath, the percentage dipped slightly from 63.93 per cent in 2017 to 62.53 per cent and from 64.92 per cent in 2017 to 63.46 per cent in 2022 respectively.