2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election

The 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election[1] were the 4th Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) election of the state of Uttarakhand in India. Elections were held on 15 February 2017 in a single phase for the 69 seats of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. Voting in the Karnaprayag constituency was postponed until 9 March 2017 due to the death of BSP candidate Kuldeep Kanwasi in a road accident. In the previous election in 2012, none of the parties won a majority but the Indian National Congress formed the government with the help of PDF in the leadership of Vijay Bahuguna.

2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election
15 February 2017
70 seats in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
36 seats needed for a majority
Turnout65.60% ( 1.25%)
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Trivendra Singh Rawat Harish Rawat
Party BJP INC
Alliance NDA UPA
Leader since 18 March 2017 1 February 2014
Leader's seat Doiwala Haridwar Rural,
Kichha
(both lost)
Last election 31 32
Seats won 57 11
Seat change 26 21
Popular vote 2,312,912 1,665,664
Percentage 46.5% 33.5%
Swing 13.37% 0.29%
Results
Chief Minister before election

Harish Rawat
INC

 Elected Chief Minister

Trivendra Singh Rawat
BJP

The voter turnout for the 69 seats of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly that held on 15 February was 65.64%[2] which is less than the last election's voter turnout of 66.85%.

Schedule and electorate

The schedule for the Uttarakhand Assembly Election was announced by the Election Commission of India on 4 January 2017 and elections took place on 15 February 2017. 69 out of 70 ACs went on to polls on the same day but polls were postponed for Karnaprayag Assembly constituency to 9 March. The results were announced on 11 March 2017.[3] Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines were used along with EVM in four assembly constituencies in Uttarakhand.[4]

Event Date Day
Date for Nominations20 Jan 2017Friday
Last Date for filing Nominations27 Jan 2017Friday
Date for scrutiny of nominations30 Jan 2017Monday
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures1 Feb 2017Wednesday
Date of poll15 Feb 2017Wednesday
Date of counting11 Mar 2017Saturday
Date before which the election shall be completed15 Mar 2017Wednesday
Assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand having VVPAT facility with EVMs.[5][6]
BHEL RanipurDharampurHaldwaniRudrapur

Voter statistics
Source [7]
Total75,92,996
Male39,23,492
Female35,72,029
Third Gender151
Service97,324
Total Polling Station
10,854

Opinion polls
Polling firm/Link/Portal Survey Dates INC BJP Others
Uttarakhand Post [8] 10 January 2017 36 29 5
ABP News-Lokniti[9] 5 January 2017 22-30 (26) 35-43 (39) -
India Today-Axis[10] 5 January 2017 18-23 (21) 41-46 (44) 2-6 (4)
India Today-Axis[11] 14 October 2016 26-31 (29) 38-43 (41) 1-4 (3)
Polls Average 28 38 4

Voting

Results

Result were declared on 11 March 2017.[13][14]

Party BJP INC Independent BSP Others
Leader Trivendra Singh Rawat Harish Rawat N/A Hari Das N/A
Votes 46.5%,2314250 33.5%,1666379 10.0%,499674 7.0%,347533 3.0%,147658
Seats 57 (81.43%) 11 (15.71%) 2 (2.86%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)
57 / 70
11 / 70
2 / 70
0 / 70
0 / 70
← Summary of the 15 February 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election results
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 2,314,25046.513.4 5726
Indian National Congress (INC) 1,666,37933.50.3 1121
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 347,5337.05.2 03
Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) 37,0410.71.2 01
Samajwadi Party (SP) 18,2020.41.0 0
Independents (IND) 499,67410.02.3 21
None of the Above (NOTA) 50,4391.0 N/A
Total 4,975,494100.00 70±0
Valid votes 49,75,494 99.72
Invalid votes 14,196 0.28
Votes cast / turnout 49,89,690 65.60
Abstentions 26,16,998 34.40
Registered voters 76,06,688

Results by constituency
Results
Assembly Constituency Turnout
(%)		 Winner Runner Up Margin
# Name Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %
Uttarkashi District
1 Purola 73.38 Rajkumar Indian National Congress 17,798 36.49 Malchand Bharatiya Janata Party 16,785 34.41 1,013
2 Yamunotri 66.91 Kedar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 19,800 42.41 Sanjay Dobhal Indian National Congress 13,840 29.64 5,960
3 Gangotri 67.53 Gopal Singh Rawat Bharatiya Janata Party 25,683 46.93 Vijay Pal Sajwan Indian National Congress 16,073 29.37 9,610
Chamoli District
4 Badrinath 62.32 Mahendra Bhatt Bharatiya Janata Party 29,676 47.31 Rajendra Bhandari Indian National Congress 24,042 38.33 5,634
5 Tharali 57.17 Magan Lal Shah Bharatiya Janata Party 25,931 45.37 Prof. Jeet Ram Indian National Congress 21,073 36.87 4,864
6 Karnaprayag 56.57 Surendra Singh Negi Bharatiya Janata Party 28,159 52.50 Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri Indian National Congress 20,610 38.42 7,549
Rudraprayag District
7 Kedarnath 65.25 Manoj Rawat Indian National Congress 13,906 25.06 Kuldeep Singh Rawat Independent 13,037 23.49 869
8 Rudraprayag 58.96 Bharat Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 29,333 51.54 Laxmi Singh Rana Indian National Congress 14,701 25.83 16,632
Tehri Garhwal District
9 Ghansali 49.03 Shakti Lal Shah Bharatiya Janata Party 22,103 50.46 Dhani Lal Shah Independent 10,450 23.86 11,653
10 Devprayag 53.03 Vinod Kandari Bharatiya Janata Party 13,824 31.97 Diwakar Bhatt Independent 10,325 23.97 3,499
11 Narendranagar 53.03 Subodh Uniyal Bharatiya Janata Party 24,104 46.37 Om Gopal Rawat Independent 19,132 36.81 4,972
12 Pratapnagar 51.23 Vijay Singh Panwar Bharatiya Janata Party 15,058 36.93 Vikram Singh Negi Indian National Congress 13,119 32.17 1,939
13 Tehri 54.65 Dhan Singh Negi Bharatiya Janata Party 20,896 47.62 Dinesh Dhanai Independent 14,056 32.02 6,840
14 Dhanaulti 64.42 Pritam Singh Panwar Independent 17,811 36.45 Narayan Singh Rana Bharatiya Janata Party 16,196 33.14 1,615
Dehradun District
15 Chakrata 72.19 Pritam Singh Indian National Congress 34,968 48.91 Madhu Chauhan Bharatiya Janata Party 33,425 46.75 1,543
16 Vikasnagar 70.58 Munna Singh Chauhan Bharatiya Janata Party 38,895 50.76 Nav Prabhat Indian National Congress 32,477 42.38 6,508
17 Sahaspur 72.80 Sahdev Singh Pundir Bharatiya Janata Party 44,055 40.75 Kishore Upadhyaya Indian National Congress 25,192 23.30 18,863
18 Dharampur 57.43 Vinod Chamoli Bharatiya Janata Party 53,828 50.96 Dinesh Agrawal Indian National Congress 42,875 40.59 10,953
19 Raipur 59.64 Umesh Sharma Kau Bharatiya Janata Party 59,764 61.07 Prabhu Lal Bahuguna Indian National Congress 22,993 23.49 36,771
20 Rajpur Road 57.97 Khajan Dass Bharatiya Janata Party 36,601 53.22 Rajkumar Indian National Congress 27,969 40.67 8,632
21 Dehradun Cantonment 57.07 Harbans Kapoor Bharatiya Janata Party 41,142 56.98 Suryakant Dhasmana Indian National Congress 24,472 33.89 16,670
22 Mussoorie 57.91 Ganesh Joshi Bharatiya Janata Party 41,322 55.14 Godavri Thapli Indian National Congress 29,245 39.02 12,077
23 Doiwala 67.83 Trivendra Singh Rawat Bharatiya Janata Party 58,502 61.08 Hira Singh Bisht Indian National Congress 33,633 35.11 24,869
24 Rishikesh 64.70 Prem Chandra Agarwal Bharatiya Janata Party 45,082 46.20 Rajpal Kharola Indian National Congress 30,281 31.03 14,801
Haridwar District
25 Haridwar 65.18 Madan Kaushik Bharatiya Janata Party 61,742 66.45 Brahmswaroop Brahmchari Indian National Congress 25,815 27.78 35,927
26 BHEL Ranipur 70.65 Aadesh Chauhan Bharatiya Janata Party 56,644 54.84 Ambrish Kumar Indian National Congress 34,404 33.31 22,240
27 Jwalapur 66.91 Suresh Rathore Bharatiya Janata Party 29,513 34.22 SP Singh Engineer Indian National Congress 24,725 28.67 4,788
28 Bhagwanpur 80.02 Mamta Rakesh Indian National Congress 44,882 48.36 Subodh Rakesh Bharatiya Janata Party 42,369 45.66 2,513
29 Jhabrera 76.28 Deshraj Karnwal Bharatiya Janata Party 32,146 38.25 Rajpal Singh Indian National Congress 29,893 35.57 2,253
30 Piran Kaliyar 81.52 Furkan Ahmed Indian National Congress 29,243 32.43 Jai Bhagwan Bharatiya Janata Party 27,894 30.93 1,349
31 Roorkee 63.84 Pradeep Batra Bharatiya Janata Party 40,000 55.58 Suresh Jain Indian National Congress 27,458 38.16 12,542
32 Khanpur 76.28 Kunwar Pranav Singh Champion Bharatiya Janata Party 53,192 49.89 Mufti Riyasat Ali Bahujan Samaj Party 39,457 37.01 13,735
33 Manglaur 78.22 Muhammad Nizamuddin Indian National Congress 31,352 38.75 Sarwat Kareem Ansari Bahujan Samaj Party 28,684 35.45 2,668
34 Laksar 81.94 Sanjay Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party 25,248 32.46 Haji Tasleem Ahmed Indian National Congress 23,644 30.40 1,604
35 Haridwar Rural 81.71 Yatishwaranand Bharatiya Janata Party 44,964 46.08 Harish Rawat Indian National Congress 32,686 33.50 12,278
Pauri Garhwal District
36 Yamkeshwar 52.70 Ritu Bhushan Khanduri Bharatiya Janata Party 19,671 43.96 Renu Bisht Independent 10,689 23.89 8,982
37 Pauri 51.83 Mukesh Koli Bharatiya Janata Party 24,469 55.19 Naval Kishor Indian National Congress 19,439 40.53 7,030
38 Srinagar 57.12 Dhan Singh Rawat Bharatiya Janata Party 30,816 51.84 Ganesh Godiyal Indian National Congress 22,118 37.21 8,698
39 Chaubattakhal TBD TBD
40 Lansdowne TBD TBD
41 Kotdwar TBD TBD
Pithoragarh District
42 Dharchula TBD TBD
43 Didihat TBD TBD
44 Pithoragarh TBD TBD
45 Gangolihat TBD TBD
Bageshwar District
46 Kapkot 61.78 Balwant Singh Bhauriyal Bharatiya Janata Party 27,213 46.39 Lalit Pharswan Indian National Congress 21,231 36.19 5,982
47 Bageshwar 59.86 Chandan Ram Das Bharatiya Janata Party 33,792 51.24 Bal Krishna Indian National Congress 19,225 29.15 14,567
Almora District
48 Dwarahat TBD TBD
49 Salt TBD TBD
50 Ranikhet TBD TBD
51 Someshwar TBD TBD
52 Almora TBD TBD
53 Jageshwar TBD TBD
Champawat District
54 Lohaghat TBD TBD
55 Champawat TBD TBD
Nainital District
56 Lalkuan TBD TBD
57 Bhimtal TBD TBD
58 Nainital TBD TBD
59 Haldwani TBD TBD
60 Kaladhungi TBD TBD
61 Ramnagar TBD TBD
Udham Singh Nagar District
62 Jaspur TBD TBD
63 Kashipur TBD TBD
64 Bajpur TBD TBD
65 Gadarpur TBD TBD
66 Rudrapur TBD TBD
67 Kichha TBD TBD
68 Sitarganj TBD TBD
69 Nanakmatta TBD TBD
70 Khatima TBD TBD

List of elected Assembly members

Complete list of winners with the margin of winning votes.[15]

S. No. Constituency Elected Member Party affiliation
1Purola (SC)Raj KumarINC
2YamunotriKedar Singh RawatBJP
3 GangotriGopal Singh RawatBJP
4BadrinathMahendra BhattBJP
5Tharali (SC)Magan Lal ShahBJP
6KarnaprayagSurendra Singh NegiBJP
7KedarnathManoj RawatINC
8RudraprayagBharat Singh RawatBJP
9Ghansali (SC)Shakti Lal ShahBJP
10DevprayagVinod KandariBJP
11NarendranagarSubodh UniyalBJP
12PratapnagarVijay Singh PanwarBJP
13TehriDhan Singh NegiBJP
14DhanaultiPritam Singh PanwarIndependent
15Chakrata (ST)Pritam SinghINC
16VikasnagarMunna Singh ChauhanBJP
17SahaspurSahdev Singh PundirBJP
18DharampurVinod ChamoliBJP
19RaipurUmesh Sharma 'Kau'BJP
20Rajpur Road (SC)Khajan DasBJP
21Dehradun CantonmentHarbans KapoorBJP
22MussoorieGanesh JoshiBJP
23DoiwalaTrivendra Singh RawatBJP
24RishikeshPremchand AggarwalBJP
25HaridwarMadan KaushikBJP
26BHEL RanipurAdesh ChauhanBJP
27Jwalapur (SC)Suresh RathodBJP
28Bhagwanpur (SC)Mamta RakeshINC
29Jhabrera (SC)Deshraj KarnwalBJP
30Piran KaliyarFurqan AhmadINC
31RoorkeePradip BatraBJP
32 Khanpur Pranav Singh 'Champion'BJP
33ManglaurMuhammad NizamuddinINC
34 LaksarSanjay GuptaBJP
35Haridwar RuralYatishwaranandBJP
36YamkeshwarRitu Khanduri BhushanBJP
37Pauri (SC)Mukesh Singh KoliBJP
38SrinagarDr. Dhan Singh RawatBJP
39ChaubattakhalSatpal MaharajBJP
40LansdowneDilip Singh RawatBJP
41KotdwarDr. Harak Singh RawatBJP
42DharchulaHarish Singh DhamiINC
43DidihatBishan Singh ChuphalBJP
44PithoragarhPrakash PantBJP
45Gangolihat (SC)Mina GangolaBJP
46KapkotBalwant Singh BhauryalBJP
47Bageshwar (SC)Chandan Ram DasBJP
48DwarahatMahesh Singh NegiBJP
49SaltSurendra Singh JeenaBJP
50RanikhetKaran Singh MahraINC
51Someshwar (SC)Rekha AryaBJP
52AlmoraRaghunath Singh ChauhanBJP
53JageshwarGovind Singh KunjwalINC
54LohaghatPuran Singh PhartyalBJP
55ChampawatKailash Chandra GahtoriBJP
56LalkuanNavin Chandra DumkaBJP
57BhimtalRam Singh KairaIndependent
58Nainital (SC)Sanjiv AryaBJP
59HaldwaniDr. Indira HridayeshINC
60KaladhungiBanshidhar BhagatBJP
61RamnagarDiwan Singh BishtBJP
62JaspurAdesh Singh ChauhanINC
63KashipurHarbhajan Singh CheemaBJP
64Bajpur (SC)Yashpal AryaBJP
65GadarpurArvind PandeyBJP
66RudrapurRajkumar ThukralBJP
67KichhaRajesh ShuklaBJP
68SitarganjSaurabh BahugunaBJP
69Nanakmatta (ST)Dr. Prem Singh RanaBJP
70KhatimaPushkar Singh DhamiBJP

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See also

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  15. "Complete list of winners".
  16. http://eciresults.nic.in/statewiseS28.htm?st=S28
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