The Doon Assembly Constituency
has Paramjeet Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Ram Kumar Chaudhury
from the Indian National Congress (INC), Sawarn Singh Saini of the Aam Aadmi
Party (AAP) in a three-way contest for this year’s Himachal Pradesh Assembly
Elections.

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According to political analysts, pension scheme, along with anti-incumbency, inflation, and unemployment, could play a key role in the state’s first election since the Covid-19 pandemic. Himachal Pradesh has been alternately ruled by Congress and BJP governments since 1985.

The BJP had won 44 of
Himachal’s 68 assembly constituencies last time and the Congress had won 21.
The CPI (M) had won one seat. A party needs to win 35 seats for a majority to
form the government in the state.

In 2017, Paramjeet Singh of the
BJP defeated Ram Kumar of the Congress by 4,319 votes. Inder Singh Thakur, an
independent candidate also contested the elections in 2017. 

Doon is one of the 68 assembly constituencies in Himachal Pradesh. Doon falls under the Solan district and Shimla Lok Sabha Constituency. Doon has more than 68,000 eligible voters. 

In 2012, Ram Kumar Chaudhury of
the Congress defeated Darshan Singh, an independent candidate by 3,830 votes.
Vinod Kumari of the BJP, Daljeet Singh of the Himachal Lokhit Party and Roop
Singh of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Gurbax Singh Chauhan of the Lok Jan
Shakti Party (LJP) and independent candidates Paramjeet Singh and Amar Singh
Thakur also contested the HP Assembly Elections in 2012. 

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Himachal Pradesh votes in a
single round on November 12. Results will be announced on December 8. 

Quick facts about the Doon Assembly seat  

Name of the assembly
constituency, district: Doon, Solan district

Polling date: November 12, 2022

Sitting MLA, party: Paramjeet
Singh, BJP

Key candidates, party in 2022:
Sawarn Singh Saini (AAP), Paramjeet Singh (BJP), Ram Kumar Chaudhury (INC)

Winning candidate, party in
2017: Paramjeet Singh, BJP

Runner-up name, party
2017:  Ram Kumar, INC

Winning margin in 2017: 4, 319

Top 3 candidates 2017: Inder
Singh Thakur (Independent), Ram Kumar (INC), Paramjeet Singh (BJP)

Top 3 candidates 2012: Ram
Kumar (INC), Darshan Singh (Independent), Paramjeet Singh (Independent)

Lok Sabha constituency: Shimla