Voting is held to fill vacancies created by the resignation of sitting members.
The counting of votes will take place on July 13.
In a head-to-head contest between traditional arch-rivals Congress and BJP, the stakes are high for Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and his wife Kamlesh Thakur making her electoral debut from Dehra in Kangra district.
This constituency was created after delimitation in 2010 and Congress never won this seat.
The Chief Minister campaigned aggressively in Dehra, as against two other seats, to ensure the victory of Kamlesh Thakur, who is in the fray against BJP candidate Hoshiyar Singh, who won the seat as an independent candidate in 2022 for the second time. consecutive time.
In 2012, BJP's Ravinder Singh Ravi was elected from Dehra.
To woo the electorate, Sukhu said during the campaign: "Dehra will technically get a CM (Chief Minister) if they elect his wife."
The main opposition party, the BJP, which has won all four seats in the recently concluded parliamentary elections, has fielded K.L. Nalagarh's Thakur and Hamirpur's Ashish Sharma, where they will take on Congress's Hardeep Bawa and Pushpendra Verma, respectively.
Both K.L. Thakur and Ashish Sharma won seats as independent candidates in 2022 before joining the BJP earlier this year.
The duo, along with Hoshiyar Singh, resigned from the Assembly in March and joined the BJP.
The by-election was necessary after the president accepted his resignation on June 4.
Earlier, in a major respite for the state government, Congress won four out of six byelections on June 4.
However, it lost all four Lok Sabha seats to the BJP for the third consecutive time.
With four new legislators, the Congress has stabilized its rule in the state.
At present, the Congress has 38 MLAs in the 65-strong Assembly, while the BJP has 27.
The counting of votes will take place on July 13.
In a head-to-head contest between traditional arch-rivals Congress and BJP, the stakes are high for Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and his wife Kamlesh Thakur making her electoral debut from Dehra in Kangra district.
This constituency was created after delimitation in 2010 and Congress never won this seat.
The Chief Minister campaigned aggressively in Dehra, as against two other seats, to ensure the victory of Kamlesh Thakur, who is in the fray against BJP candidate Hoshiyar Singh, who won the seat as an independent candidate in 2022 for the second time. consecutive time.
In 2012, BJP's Ravinder Singh Ravi was elected from Dehra.
To woo the electorate, Sukhu said during the campaign: "Dehra will technically get a CM (Chief Minister) if they elect his wife."
The main opposition party, the BJP, which has won all four seats in the recently concluded parliamentary elections, has fielded K.L. Nalagarh's Thakur and Hamirpur's Ashish Sharma, where they will take on Congress's Hardeep Bawa and Pushpendra Verma, respectively.
Both K.L. Thakur and Ashish Sharma won seats as independent candidates in 2022 before joining the BJP earlier this year.
The duo, along with Hoshiyar Singh, resigned from the Assembly in March and joined the BJP.
The by-election was necessary after the president accepted his resignation on June 4.
Earlier, in a major respite for the state government, Congress won four out of six byelections on June 4.
However, it lost all four Lok Sabha seats to the BJP for the third consecutive time.
With four new legislators, the Congress has stabilized its rule in the state.
At present, the Congress has 38 MLAs in the 65-strong Assembly, while the BJP has 27.
