About-Kinnaur


Kinnaur, a ST category assembly seat, is located in the Kinnaur District of the Himachal Pradesh State of India and is one of the 17 assembly districts of the Mandi parliamentary constituency. After Lahaul and Spiti, it has the second-lowest population density in Himachal Pradesh as of 2011. The district has six tehsils and is divided into the three administrative areas of Kalpa, Nichar (Bhabanagar), and Pooh. The two main parties in power in this legislature are the BJP and INC. Both the current assembly’s MLA, Jagat Singh Negi, and the district’s MP, Pratibha Singh, who represented the INC and won the district’s most recent Lok Sabha by-election in 2021 from Mandi after Ram Swaroop Sharma passed away and the general Lok Sabha election in 2019, hold seats in that body. According to the 2011 Census report, Muslim voters, rural voters, and urban voters make up about 1.4%, 100%, and 0% of the population of the assembly, respectively. Attendees of the SC and ST assemblies make up 17.53% and 57.95%, respectively, of the assembly’s total voting populace. For the 2019 Parliamentary Election, there were 126 polling locations in the Kinnaur(ST) assembly, and 58153 voters cast ballots. In Kinnaur, 75.71% of eligible voters showed up for the assembly in 2017 and 70.61% did so in 2019. Additionally, it has a long history of being a region with a great diversity of languages, including different varieties of Tibetan as well as West Himalayan and Indo-Aryan languages.

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Kinnaur, a ST category assembly seat, is located in the Kinnaur District of the Himachal Pradesh State of India and is one of the 17 assembly districts of the Mandi parliamentary constituency. After Lahaul and Spiti, it has the second-lowest population density in Himachal Pradesh as of 2011. The district has six tehsils and is divided into the three administrative areas of Kalpa, Nichar (Bhabanagar), and Pooh. The two main parties in power in this legislature are the BJP and INC. Both the current assembly’s MLA, Jagat Singh Negi, and the district’s MP, Pratibha Singh, who represented the INC and won the district’s most recent Lok Sabha by-election in 2021 from Mandi after Ram Swaroop Sharma passed away and the general Lok Sabha election in 2019, hold seats in that body. According to the 2011 Census report, Muslim voters, rural voters, and urban voters make up about 1.4%, 100%, and 0% of the population of the assembly, respectively. Attendees of the SC and ST assemblies make up 17.53% and 57.95%, respectively, of the assembly’s total voting populace. For the 2019 Parliamentary Election, there were 126 polling locations in the Kinnaur(ST) assembly, and 58153 voters cast ballots. In Kinnaur, 75.71% of eligible voters showed up for the assembly in 2017 and 70.61% did so in 2019. Additionally, it has a long history of being a region with a great diversity of languages, including different varieties of Tibetan as well as West Himalayan and Indo-Aryan languages.