Updates: 6:50 pm: In the Mandi seat, BJP's Ram Swaroop Sharma defeated Congress's Pratibha Singh by 39,586 votes.
5:40 pm: In the Hamirpur seat, BJP's Anurag Thakur defeated Rajinder Singh Rana of COngress by 98403 votes.
3:30 pm: Former chief minister and BJP candidate Shanta Kumar defeated Congress candidate Chander Kumar by 1,70,072 votes in the Kangra seat. In the Shimla seat, BJP's Virender Kumar has defeated Congress's Mohan Lal Brakta by 84,817 votes.
1:52 pm: The BJP is heading towards retaining the state.
12:20 pm: In Mandi, Ram Swaroop Sharma is leading over Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh's wife Pratibha by over 21,000 votes. In Shimla, Virender Kashyap is leading over Mohan Lal Brakta by over 44,000 votes.
11:30 am: In Hamirpur, Anurag Singh Thakur is leading over Rajinder Singh Rana by over 72,000 votes. In Kangra, Shanta Kumar is leading over Chander Kumar by over 1.3 lakh votes.
9:16 am: The BJP is leading in four seats.
8:55 am: BJP's Anurag Thakur leading in Hamirpur seat
New Delhi: The counting of votes begins on Friday to decide the fate of 38 candidates contesting from Himachal Pradesh's four Lok Sabha seats and four nominees in the fray for Sujanpur Assembly bypoll, for which all necessary arrangements have been put in place.
Elaborate security arrangements have been made at the 16 counting centres - one each in all 12 district headquarters and four additional centres at Rampur, Palampur, Nurpur and Paonta Sahib. Sixty-six halls have been set up to take up the counting of 66 out of 68 Assembly segments simultaneously.
Former chief minister Shanta Kumar, former chief minister PK Dhumal's son and sitting BJP MP from Hamirpur seat Anurag Thakur, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh's wife and sitting MP from Mandi seat Pratibha Singh, rebel BJP MP from Kangra and AAP candidate Rajan Sushant and BJP MP from Shimla Virender Kashyap are among prominent contestants.
Key candidates:
Shanta Kumar BJP Kangra
Anurag Thakur BJP Hamirpur
Pratibha Singh Congress Mandi
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