| Election Name: | Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh, 2004 |
| Country: | India |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1999 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh |
| Previous Year: | 1999 |
| Next Election: | Indian general election, 2009 (Himachal Pradesh) |
| Next Year: | 2009 |
| Election Date: | 10 May 2004 |
| Seats For Election: | 4 seats |
| Turnout: | 59.3% |
| Party2: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Last Election2: | 3 |
| Seats2: | 1 |
| Seat Change2: | 2 |
| Party1: | Indian National Congress |
| Last Election1: | 0 |
| Seats1: | 3 |
| Seat Change1: | 3 |
| Percentage1: | 51.9% |
| Percentage2: | 44.2% |
The 2004 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh were held for 4 seats. The Indian National Congress won 3 seats while the Bhartiya Janata Party won 1 seat.
The BJP survived a clean sweep by the Congress as one of its candidates, Suresh Chandel, managed to scrape through by a slender margin in the Hamirpur Lok Sabha constituency. He defeated Ram Lal Thakur, Industries Minister, by 2202 votes[1]
| Party | Seats | Popular Vote | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contested | Won | ± | Votes | % | ± | ||
| 4 | 3 | 3 | 51.89 | 12.87 | |||
| 4 | 1 | 2 | 44.24 | 2.03 | |||
| 4 | 0 | 1.74 | 1.43 | ||||
| 9 | 0 | 0 | 1.66 | 1.18 | |||
| Total (valid votes) | 4 | 100.0 | |||||
| Parliamentary Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Name | Type | Candidate | Colspan=2 | Party | Votes | Vote% | Candidate | Colspan=2 | Party | Votes | Vote% | Votes | % | |||
| 1 | Shimla | SC | 51.6% | Dhani Ram Shandil | style=background-color: | INC | 3,11,182 | Hiranand Kashyap | style=background-color: | BJP | 2,03,002 | 1,08,180 | 20.46 | ||||
| 2 | Mandi | GEN | 61.1% | Pratibha Singh | style=background-color: | INC | 3,57,623 | Maheshwar Singh | style=background-color: | BJP | 2,91,057 | 66,556 | 9.94 | ||||
| 3 | Kangra | GEN | 62.0% | Chander Kumar | style=background-color: | INC | 3,14,555 | Shanta Kumar | style=background-color: | BJP | 2,96,764 | 17,791 | 2.77 | ||||
| 4 | Hamirpur | GEN | 62.5% | Suresh Chandel | style=background-color: | BJP | 3,13,243 | Ram Lal Thakur | style=background-color: | INC | 3,11,628 | 1,615 | 0.25 | ||||