Kangana Ranaut, the BJP’s candidate, won the Mandi parliamentary seat with a margin of 74,755 votes, while Anurag Thakur, the Union Minister, won the Hamirpur seat for a fifth time in a row, defeating Satpal Raizada, the Congress candidate, with a margin of 1,82,357 votes.
Based on trends, the BJP is leading the Congress in the two remaining Lok Sabha seats, Kangra and Shimla.
6 byelection seats: Congress wins 4; BJP 2
Lahaul & Spiti: Cong Aruradha Rana wins
Gagret: Rakesh Kalia Congress wins
Sujanpur: Ranjit Singh Rana Cong wins
Dharamshala: BJP’s Sudhir Sharma wins
Barsar: BJP’s Inder Dutt Lakhanpal wins
Kutlehar: Vivek Sharma Cong wins
In Sujanpur, Captain Ranjit Singh Rana of the Congress has defeted BJP’s Rajinder Rana.
In Dharamshala, BJP’s Sudhir Sharma defeted Congress’ Devinder Jaggi.
Congress candidate Vivek Sharma defeted BJP’s Davinder Kumar Bhutto in Kutlehar.
In Gagret, Rakesh Kalia defeted BJP’s Chaitanya Sharma.
In Barsar, BJP’s Inder Dutt Lakhanpal defeted Subhash Chand of the Congress.