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Mandi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the four
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(parliamentary) constituencies in
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state in northern
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represented by
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, a member of the
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since
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.


History

Mandi Parliamentary constituency already emerged as a hot bed of politics where not only the BJP and the Congress will fight for their prestige, but is the only seat in the state where the Left front has popped up a candidate. The constituency then was named as Mandi - Mahasu was represented by Rani Amrit Kaur of the erstwhile
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state and Sh Gopi Ram Mandi during 1952–57. In the Lok Sabha elections that followed in 1957, the seat was represented by Raja Joginder Sen of the erstwhile Mandi state, who represented the seat till 1962. In the following elections that year Raja Lalit Sen of
Sundarnagar Sundar Nagar (also spelled as Sundernagar) is a town and a municipal council in Mandi district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It was formerly a princely state, known as Suket. History Sunder Nagar was formerly the seat of princ ...
or the erstwhile
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was elected. He repeated his victory in the 1967 elections. However, in period from 1977 to 1979, the constituency was represented by Ganga Singh who represented the
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, which came to power at the centre immediately after the elections that followed the imposition of emergency in the country and the Congress, under
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was routed. He defeated Congress candidate
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. Then came along the man, who called himself the son-of-the-soil,
Sukh Ram Pandit Sukh Ram (born Sukhram Sharma; 27 July 1927 – 11 May 2022) was an Indian politician who served as the Minister of Communications and Information Technology from 1993 to 1996. He was a member of Lok Sabha from the Mandi constituency o ...
. He switched from state politics to the Parliament and won comfortably in 1985. In the next election, however, it was again another blue-blooded royal, Maheshwar Singh, scion of the erstwhile Kullu state who drubbed the son-of-the-soil at the polls. But
Sukh Ram Pandit Sukh Ram (born Sukhram Sharma; 27 July 1927 – 11 May 2022) was an Indian politician who served as the Minister of Communications and Information Technology from 1993 to 1996. He was a member of Lok Sabha from the Mandi constituency o ...
bounced back and won again in 1994, but was expelled from the Congress a couple of years later, following the reported recovery of large amounts of cash from his residence. To re-establish his political dominion
Sukh Ram Pandit Sukh Ram (born Sukhram Sharma; 27 July 1927 – 11 May 2022) was an Indian politician who served as the Minister of Communications and Information Technology from 1993 to 1996. He was a member of Lok Sabha from the Mandi constituency o ...
floated
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and came back into politics with a bang – winning five Assembly seats in 1998 along with wresting Shimla (reserved) parliamentary seat from the Congress in 1999. In 1998, Sukh Ram's HVC under an alliance with the BJP supported the candidature of Maheshwar Singh, who won easily. In 2004, Congress candidate
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defeated Maheshwar Singh. In the last Parliament elections 2009, Congress candidate
Virbhadra Singh Virbhadra Singh (; 23 June 19348 July 2021) was an Indian politician who served 6 terms and 21 years as the 4th Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. A leader of the Indian National Congress party, he was elected 9 times as a Member of Legislati ...
defeated Maheshwar Singh by a very small gap.


Vidhan Sabha segments

Mandi Lok Sabha constituency presently comprises the following 17
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(legislative assembly) segments:


Members of Lok Sabha


Election results


2024


2021 by-election


2019 Election


2014 election


2013 by-election


2009 election


2004 election


1999 election


1998 election


1996 election


1991 election


1989 election


1984 election


1980 election


1977 election


1971 election


1967 election


1962 election


1957 election


1951 election


See also

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List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, the Lower House of the Parliament of India, is made up of Members of Parliament ( MPs). Each member of parliament represents a single geographic constituency. The maximum size of the Lok Sabha as outlined in the Constitution of ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mandi (Lok Sabha Constituency) Lok Sabha constituencies in Himachal Pradesh Mandi district Chamba district Lahaul and Spiti district Kullu district Kinnaur district Shimla district