2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election

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2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election

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30 January 2012 (2012-01-30)

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70 seats in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
36 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

66.17% (

6.72%)

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Vijay Bahuguna	Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri	Hari Das
Party	INC	BJP	BSP
Alliance	Post-poll alliance with BSP, UKD(P) and Independents		Post-poll alliance with INC, UKD(P) and Independents
Leader since	2012	2007	2012
Leader's seat	Sitarganj (by-election)	Kotdwar (lost)	Jhabrera
Last election	21	35	8
Seats won	32	31	3
Seat change	11	4	5
Popular vote	14,36,042	14,08,341	5,18,257
Percentage	33.79%	33.13%	12.19%
Swing	4.2%	1.23%	0.43%

Constituencies of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly

Chief Minister before election

Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri
BJP

Elected Chief Minister

Vijay Bahuguna
INC

The 2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election were the 3rd Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) election of the state of Uttarakhand in India. Elections were held on 30 January 2012 when Indian National Congress emerged as the largest party with 32 seats in the 70-seat legislature and formed the government with the help of Progressive Democratic Front alliance (Bahujan Samaj Party, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P) and Independents). The Bharatiya Janata Party with 31 seats served as the official opposition.

Results


Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes	% Votes in Seats Contested	Leader in the House
1	Indian National Congress (INC)	70	32	33.79	33.79	Vijay Bahuguna (2012–2014) Harish Rawat (2014–2017)
3	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	70	03	12.19	12.19	Hari Das
4	Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P) (UKD(P))	44	01	1.93	3.18	Pritam Singh Panwar
5	Independents	–	03	12.34	12.34	N/A
2	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	70	31	33.13	33.13	Ajay Bhatt
	Total	–	70	–	–

The Indian National Congress emerged as the largest party with 32 seats in a house of 70. They were still four short of the majority to form a government. After much wrangling it was announced that the Bahujan Samaj Party, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P) and the three Independents would be supporting the government. The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party Government lost as they had only 31 seats out of 70 seats, lagging just one seat behind Indian National Congress.

After protracted discussions it was announced the Vijay Bahuguna would be Chief Minister and Harish Rawat would continue to serve as the Union Minister for Water Resources in the UPA government at Union level.

List of elected Assembly members

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S. No.	Constituency	Elected Member	Party affiliation
1	Purola (SC)	Mal Chand	BJP
2	Yamunotri	Pritam Singh Panwar	UKD(P)
3	Gangotri	Vijaypal Singh Sajwan	INC
4	Badrinath	Rajendra Singh Bhandari	INC
5	Tharali (SC)	Prof. Jeet Ram	INC
6	Karnaprayag	Dr. Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri	INC
7	Kedarnath	Shaila Rani Rawat	INC
8	Rudraprayag	Dr. Harak Singh Rawat	INC
9	Ghansali (SC)	Bhim Lal Arya	BJP
10	Devprayag	Mantri Prasad Naithani	Independent
11	Narendranagar	Subodh Uniyal	INC
12	Pratapnagar	Vikram Singh Negi	INC
13	Tehri	Dinesh Dhanai	Independent
14	Dhanaulti	Mahavir Singh Rangarh	BJP
15	Chakrata (ST)	Pritam Singh	INC
16	Vikasnagar	Nav Prabhat	INC
17	Sahaspur	Sahdev Singh Pundir	BJP
18	Dharampur	Dinesh Agrawal	INC
19	Raipur	Umesh Sharma 'Kau'	INC
20	Rajpur Road (SC)	Rajkumar	INC
21	Dehradun Cantonment	Harbans Kapoor	BJP
22	Mussoorie	Ganesh Joshi	BJP
23	Doiwala	Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'	BJP
24	Rishikesh	Premchand Aggarwal	BJP
25	Haridwar	Madan Kaushik	BJP
26	BHEL Ranipur	Adesh Chauhan	BJP
27	Jwalapur (SC)	Chandra Shekhar	BJP
28	Bhagwanpur (SC)	Surendra Rakesh	BSP
29	Jhabrera (SC)	Hari Das	BSP
30	Piran Kaliyar	Furqan Ahmad	INC
31	Roorkee	Pradip Batra	INC
32	Khanpur	Pranav Singh 'Champion'	INC
33	Manglaur	Sarwat Karim Ansari	BSP
34	Laksar	Sanjay Gupta	BJP
35	Haridwar Rural	Yatishwaranand	BJP
36	Yamkeshwar	Vijaya Barthwal	BJP
37	Pauri (SC)	Sundar Lal Mandrawal	INC
38	Srinagar	Ganesh Godiyal	INC
39	Chaubattakhal	Tirath Singh Rawat	BJP
40	Lansdowne	Dilip Singh Rawat	BJP
41	Kotdwar	Surendra Singh Negi	INC
42	Dharchula	Harish Singh Dhami	INC
43	Didihat	Bishan Singh Chuphal	BJP
44	Pithoragarh	Mayukh Singh Mahar	INC
45	Gangolihat (SC)	Narayan Ram Arya	INC
46	Kapkot	Lalit Pharswan	INC
47	Bageshwar (SC)	Chandan Ram Das	BJP
48	Dwarahat	Madan Singh Bisht	INC
49	Salt	Surendra Singh Jeena	BJP
50	Ranikhet	Ajay Bhatt	BJP
51	Someshwar (SC)	Ajay Tamta	BJP
52	Almora	Manoj Tiwari	INC
53	Jageshwar	Govind Singh Kunjwal	INC
54	Lohaghat	Puran Singh Phartyal	BJP
55	Champawat	Hemesh Kharkwal	INC
56	Lalkuan	Harish Chandra Durgapal	Independent
57	Bhimtal	Dan Singh Bhandari	BJP
58	Nainital (SC)	Sarita Arya	INC
59	Haldwani	Dr. Indira Hridayesh	INC
60	Kaladhungi	Banshidhar Bhagat	BJP
61	Ramnagar	Amrita Rawat	INC
62	Jaspur	Dr. Shailendra Mohan Singhal	INC
63	Kashipur	Harbhajan Singh Cheema	BJP
64	Bajpur (SC)	Yashpal Arya	INC
65	Gadarpur	Arvind Pandey	BJP
66	Rudrapur	Rajkumar Thukral	BJP
67	Kichha	Rajesh Shukla	BJP
68	Sitarganj	Kiran Mandal	BJP
69	Nanakmatta (ST)	Dr. Prem Singh Rana	BJP
70	Khatima	Pushkar Singh Dhami	BJP

References

http://ceo.uk.gov.in/files/Election2012/RESULTS_2012_Uttarakhand_State.pdf

^ The Indian Express (8 March 2017). "Uttarakhand Election Results 2012: Full list of winners of all constituencies and how it can change in 2017". Archived from the original on 19 January 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2024.

Elections in Uttarakhand

General elections

Assembly elections

Local elections

Municipal elections	2003 2008 2013 2018 2019 2024
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Results

List of elected Assembly members

See also

References