2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election

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2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election
← 2017 14 February 2022
All 70 seats in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
36 seats needed for a majority
  Pushkar Singh Dhami.jpg HarishRawat.jpg AJ1T.png
Leader Pushkar Singh Dhami Harish Rawat Col Ajay Kothiyal
Party BJP INC AAP
Alliance NDA UPA -
Leader since 2021 2014 2021
Leader's seat Khatima Lalkuan Gangotri
Last election 46.5%
57 seats 		33.5%
11 seats 		Did not contest
Current seats 53 9 0
  Mayawati.jpg
Leader Mayawati
Party BSP
Alliance -
Leader since 1998
Leader's seat Not contesting
Last election 7.0%
0 seat
Current seats 0
Wahlkreise zur Vidhan Sabha von Uttarakhand.svg
Constituencies of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Chief Minister

Pushkar Singh Dhami
BJP



Legislative Assembly elections will be held in Uttarakhand on 14 February 2022 to elect 70 members of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. The votes will be counted and the results will be declared on 10 March 2022.

Background[]

The tenure of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 23 March 2022.[1] The previous assembly elections were held in February 2017. After the election, Bharatiya Janata Party formed the state government, with Trivendra Singh Rawat becoming Chief Minister.[2]

Political Developments[]

Amidst the internal turmoil in the BJP Uttarakhand unit and the mounting pressure of BJP MLAs against himself, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned on 9 March 2021.[3] Tirath Singh Rawat was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of the state on 10 March 2021.[4]

On 2 July 2021, Tirath Singh Rawat resigned from the Chief Minister's post to avoid constitutional crisis in the state.[5] On 3 July 2021, Pushkar Singh Dhami was sworn-in as the 10th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, assuming office on 4 July 2021.[6]

In January 2021, Arvind Kejriwal announced that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would be contesting in six state elections in 2022 including Uttarakhand.[7] On 17 August 2021, AAP declared Col. Ajay Kothiyal as their Chief Ministerial candidate for the assembly election.[8]

Election schedule[]

The election schedule was announced by the Election Commission of India on 8 January 2022.[9]

S.No. Event Date Day
1. Date for Nominations 21 January 2022 Friday
2. Last Date for filing Nominations 28 January 2022 Friday
3. Date for scrutiny of nominations 29 January 2022 Saturday
4. Last date for withdrawal of candidatures 31 January 2022 Monday
5. Date of poll 14 February 2022 Monday
6. Date of counting 10 March 2022 Thursday

Parties and alliances[]

  National Democratic Alliance[]

No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats Contested Male Candidates Female Candidates
1. Bharatiya Janata Party BJP flag.svg BJP election symbol.png Pushkar Singh Dhami
Pushkar Singh Dhami.jpg
 70 62 8

  United Progressive Alliance[]

No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats Contested Male Candidates Female Candidates
1. Indian National Congress INC Flag Official.jpg Hand INC.svg Harish Rawat HarishRawat.jpg 70 65 5

  Aam Aadmi Party[]

No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats Contested Male Candidates Female Candidates
1. Aam Aadmi Party Aam Aadmi Party logo (English).svg AAP Symbol.png Col. Ajay Kothiyal AJ1T.png 70[10][a] TBD TBD

  Left Front[]

No. Party[11] Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats contested Male candidates- Female candidates
1. Communist Party of India CPI Flag.jpg Indian Election Symbol Ears of Corn and Sickle.png Samar Bhandari Circle-icons-profile.svg 4 4 0
2. Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) Flag.jpg Indian Election Symbol Hammer Sickle and Star.png Rajendra Singh Negi Circle-icons-profile.svg 4 4 0
3. Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) CPIML LIBERATION FLAG.jpg Flag Logo of CPIML.png Raja Bahuguna Circle-icons-profile.svg 2 2 0

Others[]

No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats Contested Male Candidates Female Candidates
1. Bahujan Samaj Party Elephant Bahujan Samaj Party.svg Indian Election Symbol Elephant.png Naresh Gautam Circle-icons-profile.svg 70[12] TBD TBD
2. Uttarakhand Kranti Dal UKD-flag.gif Indian Election Symbol Chair.png Diwakar Bhatt Circle-icons-profile.svg 70[13] TBD TBD
3. Samajwadi Party Samajwadi Party Flag.jpg Indian Election Symbol Cycle.png Satyanarayan Sachan Circle-icons-profile.svg 70[14] TBD TBD
4. All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen logo.svg Indian Election Symbol Kite.png Nayyar Kazmi Circle-icons-profile.svg 22[15] TBD TBD
5. Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)[16] No image available.svg Indian Election Symbol Helicopter.jpg Chirag Paswan Chirag Paswan.jpg TBD TBD TBD

Candidates[]

Constituency NDA UPA AAP
# Name Party Candidate[17] Party Candidate[18] Party Candidate[19][20][21][22]
Uttarkashi District
1 Purola BJP Durgeshwar Lal INC Mal Chand AAP Prakash Kumar
2 Yamunotri BJP Kedar Singh Rawat INC Deepak Bijalwan AAP Manoj Shah
3 Gangotri BJP Suresh Chauhan INC Vijaypal Singh Sajwan AAP Col Ajay Kothiyal
Chamoli District
4 Badrinath BJP Mahendra Bhatt INC Rajendra Bhandari AAP Bhagwati Prasad Mandoli
5 Tharali BJP Bhopal Ram Tamta INC Prof. Jeet Ram AAP Guddu Lal
6 Karnaprayag BJP Anil Nautiyal INC Mukesh Negi AAP Dyal Singh Bisht
7 Kedarnath BJP Shaila Rani Rawat INC Manoj Rawat AAP Sumant Tewari
8 Rudraprayag BJP Bharat Singh Chaudhari INC Pradeep Thapliyal AAP Pyar Singh Negi
Tehri Garhwal District
9 Ghansali BJP Shakti Lal Shah INC Dhani Lal Shah AAP Vijay Shah
10 Devprayag BJP Vinod Kandari INC Mantri Prasad Naithani AAP Uttam Singh Bhandari
11 Narendranagar BJP Subodh Uniyal INC Om Gopal Rawat AAP Pushpa Rawat
12 Pratapnagar BJP Vijay Singh Panwar INC Vikram Singh Negi AAP Sagar Bhandari
13 Tehri BJP Kishore Upadhyaya INC Dhan Singh Negi AAP Trilok Singh Negi
14 Dhanaulti BJP Pritam Singh Panwar INC Jot Singh Bisht AAP Amendra Singh Bisht
Dehradun District
15 Chakrata BJP Ramsharan Nautiyal INC Pritam Singh AAP Darshan Doval
16 Vikasnagar BJP Munna Singh Chauhan INC Nav Prabhat AAP Praveen Bansal
17 Sahaspur BJP Sahdev Singh Pundir INC Aryendra Sharma AAP Bharat Singh
18 Dharampur BJP Vinod Chamoli INC Dinesh Agarwal AAP Yogendra Chauhan
19 Raipur BJP Umesh Sharma Kau INC Hira Singh Bisht AAP Naveen Pirshali
20 Rajpur Road BJP Khajan Das INC Raj Kumar AAP Dimple Singh
21 Dehradun Cantonment BJP Savita Harbans Kapoor INC Suryakant Dhasmana AAP Ravindra Anand
22 Mussoorie BJP Ganesh Joshi INC Godawari Thapli AAP Shyam Bora
23 Doiwala BJP Brijbhushan Gairola INC Gaurav Chaudhary AAP Raju Maurya
24 Rishikesh BJP Premchand Aggarwal INC Jayendra Chandra Ramola AAP Dr. Raje Negi
Haridwar District
25 Haridwar BJP Madan Kaushik INC Satpal Brahmchari AAP Sanjay Saini
26 BHEL Ranipur BJP Adesh Chauhan INC Rajveer Singh Chauhan AAP Prashant Rai
27 Jwalapur BJP Suresh Rathore INC Ravi Bahadur AAP Mamata Singh
28 Bhagwanpur BJP Satya Pal INC Mamta Rakesh AAP Prem Singh
29 Jhabrera BJP Rajpal Singh INC Virendra Kumar Jati AAP Raju Viratiya
30 Piran Kaliyar BJP Muneesh Saini INC Furkan Ahmed AAP Shadab Alam
31 Roorkee BJP Pradip Batra INC Yashpal Rana AAP Naresh Prince
32 Khanpur BJP Kunwarani Devayani INC Subhash Chaudhary AAP Manorma Tyagi
33 Manglaur BJP Dinesh Pawar INC Muhammad Nizamuddin AAP Naveen Kumar Rathi
34 Laksar BJP Sanjay Gupta INC Antriskh Saini AAP Dr. Yusuf
35 Haridwar Rural BJP Yatishwaranand INC Anupama Rawat AAP Naresh Sharma
Pauri Garhwal District
36 Yamkeshwar BJP Renu Bisht INC Shailendra Singh Rawat AAP Aviral Bisht
37 Pauri BJP Raj Kumar Pori INC Nawal Kishore AAP Manohar Lal Pahadiya
38 Srinagar BJP Dhan Singh Rawat INC Ganesh Godiyal AAP Gajendra Chauhan
39 Chaubattakhal BJP Satpal Maharaj INC Kesar Singh Negi AAP Digmohan Negi
40 Lansdowne BJP Dilip Singh Rawat INC Anukriti Gusain AAP Narendra Giri
41 Kotdwar BJP Ritu Bhushan Khanduri INC Surendra Singh Negi AAP Arvind Verma
Pithoragarh District
42 Dharchula BJP Dhan Singh Dhami INC Harish Singh Dhami AAP Narayan Surari
43 Didihat BJP Bishan Singh Chuphal INC Pradeep Singh Pal AAP Diwan Singh Mehta
44 Pithoragarh BJP Chandra Pant INC Mayukh Singh Mahar AAP Chandrapraksh Punhera
45 Gangolihat BJP Fakir Ram Tamta INC Khajan Chandra Guddu AAP Babita Chand
Bageshwar District
46 Kapkot BJP Suresh Garia INC Lalit Pharswan AAP Bhupesh Upadhyay
47 Bageshwar BJP Chandan Ram Das INC Ranjeet Das AAP Basant Kumar
Almora District
48 Dwarahat BJP Anil Shahi INC Madan Singh Bisht AAP Prakash Chandra Upadhyay
49 Salt BJP Mahesh Singh Jeena INC Ranjit Rawat AAP Suresh Chandra Bisht
50 Ranikhet BJP Pramod Nainwal INC Karan Mahara AAP Nandan Singh Bisht
51 Someshwar BJP Rekha Arya INC Rajendra Barakoti AAP Dr. Harish Arya
52 Almora BJP Kailash Sharma INC Manoj Tiwari AAP Amit Joshi
53 Jageshwar BJP Mohan Singh Mehra INC Govind Singh Kunjwal AAP Tara Datt Pandey
Champawat District
54 Lohaghat BJP Puran Singh Phartyal INC Kushal Singh Adhikari AAP Rajesh Bisht
55 Champawat BJP Kailash Chandra Gahtori INC Himesh Kharkwal AAP Madan Meher
Nainital District
56 Lalkuan BJP Mohan Singh Bisht INC Harish Rawat AAP Chandrashekar Pandey
57 Bhimtal BJP Ram Singh Kaira INC Dan Singh Bhandari AAP Sagar Pandey
58 Nainital BJP Sarita Arya INC Sanjiv Arya AAP Hem Arya
59 Haldwani BJP Jogendra Pal Singh Rautela INC Sumit Hridayesh AAP Samit Tikku
60 Kaladhungi BJP Banshidhar Bhagat INC Mahesh Sharma AAP Manju Tiwari
61 Ramnagar BJP Diwan Singh Bisht INC Mahendra Pal Singh AAP Shishupal Singh Rawat
Udham Singh Nagar District
62 Jaspur BJP Shailendra Mohan Singhal INC Aadesh Chauhan AAP Dr. Yunus Choudhary
63 Kashipur BJP Trilok Singh Cheema INC Narendra Chandra Singh AAP Deepak Bali
64 Bajpur BJP Rajesh Kumar INC Yashpal Arya AAP Sunita Tamta Bajwa
65 Gadarpur BJP Arvind Pandey INC Premanand Mahajan AAP Jarnail Singh Kali
66 Rudrapur BJP Shiv Arora INC Meena Sharma AAP Nand Lal
67 Kichha BJP Rajesh Shukla INC Tilak Raj Behar AAP Kulwant Singh
68 Sitarganj BJP Saurabh Bahuguna INC Navtej Pal Singh AAP Ajay Jaiswal
69 Nanakmatta BJP Prem Singh Rana INC Gopal Singh Rana AAP Anand Singh Rana
70 Khatima BJP Pushkar Singh Dhami INC Bhuwan Kapri AAP SS Kaler

Party manifestos[]

AAP[]

AAP released "Kejriwal 4 Guarantees". Major promises were:[23][24]

Employment
  • 1 Lakh jobs
  • Guaranteed 80 percent reservation for local youths in state jobs
  • Rs 5,000 per month to unemployed young people
Electricity
  • 300 units of free electricity

Surveys and polls[]

Opinion polls[]

Polling aggregates
Active Parties
  Bharatiya Janata Party
  Indian National Congress
  Aam Aadmi Party
  Others
Date Polling agency Lead Remarks
BJP INC AAP Others
10 January 2022 ABP News - C-Voter[25][26] 31-37 30-36 2-4 0-1 0-7 Hung
38.6% 37.2% 12.6% 11.7% 1.4%
5 January 2022 ETG Research - India Ahead[27] 46-50 16-20 1-3 1-3 26-34 BJP majority
43.7% 32.9% 13.2% 10.3% 10.8%
22 December 2021 NewsX - Pollstrat[28] 36-41 25-30 2-4 0

6-16

BJP majority

40.5%

34.2% 10.4% 14.9% 6.3%
11 December 2021 ABP News - C-Voter[29] 33-39 29-35 1-3 0-1 0-10 Hung

39.8%

35.7% 12.6% 11.9% 4.1%
12 November 2021 ABP News - C-Voter[30] 36-40 30-34 0-2 0-1

2-10

BJP majority

41.4%

36.3% 11.8% 10.5% 5.1%
8 October 2021 ABP News - C-Voter[31]

42-46

21-25 0-4 0-2

17-25

BJP majority

44.6%

34.0% 14.7% 6.7% 10.6%
3 September 2021 ABP News - C-Voter[32]

44-48

19-23 0-4 0-2

21-29

BJP majority

43.1%

32.6% 14.6% 9.7% 10.5%
18 March 2021 ABP News - C-Voter[33] 24-30

32-38

2-8 0-9

2-14

Hung
38.3%

40.8%

9.2% 11.7% 2.5%

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ 67 candidates declared

References[]

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