3rd Uttarakhand Assembly

The 2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election were the third Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) election of the state. 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 Bahujan Samaj Party, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P) and Independents. The Bharatiya Janata Party with 31 seats served as the official opposition.

Third Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
Houses	Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
History
Preceded by	2nd Uttarakhand Assembly
Succeeded by	4th Uttarakhand Assembly
Leadership
Speaker	Govind Singh Kunjwal (2012–2017), INC
Deputy Speaker	Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri (2012–2017), INC
Leader of the House	Vijay Bahuguna (2012–2014), INC Harish Rawat (2014–2017) , INC
Leader of the Opposition	Ajay Bhatt (2012–2017), BJP
Chief Secretary	Devi Prasad Gairola, IAS
Structure
Seats	71[†]
Political groups	Government (42)   INC (36)   BSP (2)   UKD(P) (1)   Independent (3) Opposition (28)   BJP (28) Nominated (1)   Nominated (1)
Length of term	2012–2017
Elections
Voting system	first-past-the-post
Last election	30 January 2012
Next election	15 February 2017
Meeting place
Vidhan Sabha Bhavan, Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Website
Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Constitution
Constitution of India
Footnotes
^† 70 seats are open for the direct election while 1 seat is reserved for the member of Anglo-Indian community.

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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.