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Outgoing Himachal Pradesh CM Jairam Thakur tenders his resignation to Governor RV Arlekar. (Img credit: ANI) Himachal Assembly Election 2022 results:The writing was on the wall for some time and it's now final - in Himachal Pradesh, voters have not bucked the anti-incumbency trend. The Congress party won the majority of 68 seats as per the final results released by the Election Commission of India (ECI). Congress won 40 seats. BJP, the ruling party, managed to win only 25 seats in the state. 35 seats are needed to attain the majority mark in Himachal. Earlier in the day, it seemed like the contest was going to be a closely fought one but now Congress has comfortably won the state. The Aam Aadmi Party did not win any seat in the hill state. Of 55 lakh voters in the state, over 75 per cent exercised their franchise in the November 12 election to elect its 68-member assembly and government. A total of 412 candidates were in the fray in this election. In the 2017 assembly elections, the BJP won 44 seats and the Congress 21, with one seat going to CPI-M, and two to independent candidates. Congress was hoping to change the last election's trend this year and are mighty pleased with the results.
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