Balloting in Himachal Pradesh for its four Lok Sabha seats and by-poll for one assembly seat began Wednesday at 7 a.m., officials said.
As many as 38 candidates are in the fray for the parliamentary seats and four are in contention in the assembly by-poll for Sujanpur seat.
Over 4.8 million electors are eligible to exercise their franchise.
Balloting is being held at 7,382 polling stations.