Union minister Anurag Thakur, actor Kangana Ranaut, four-time RS MP Anand Sharma and sitting Public Works minister Vikramaditya Singh are the bigwigs to watch for in the four Lok Sabha and six assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh where counting will be taken up on Tuesday.

While four-time MP and BJP candidate Thakur is seeking a fifth term from Hamirpur, the other party candidate Ranaut, who has entered the political arena for the first time, is trying her luck from Mandi. Former BJP state president Suresh Kashyap is contesting from Shimla.

Among the prominent Congress candidates are four-time Rajya Sabha MP Sharma from Kangra seat and scion of erstwhile Rampur estate Vikramaditya Singh, who is son of six-time chief minister Virbhadra Singh and state Congress chief Pratibha Singh from Mandi seat.

The fate of 62 candidates will be known after the counting process at over 70 centres across the state. Kangra parliamentary seat recorded 67.89 percent polling, Mandi 73.15 percent, Hamirpur 71. 56 percent and the Shimla (SC) seat 71.26 percent.

Of the six assembly constituencies where by-polls were held simultaneously, Dharamshala recorded a turnout of 71.2 per cent, Lahaul and Spiti 75.09 percent, Sujanpur 73.76 percent, Barsar 71.69 percent, Gagret 75.14per cent and Kutlehar 76.89 percent.

The six assembly seats, where the bypolls were held, fell vacant after the disqualification of six Congress legislators for defying a party whip to vote in favour of the government during the budget.