5th Uttarakhand Assembly

Fifth Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Fifth Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
Houses	Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
History
Preceded by	4th Uttarakhand Assembly
Leadership
Speaker	Ritu Khanduri Bhushan, BJP ; since 26 March 2022
Deputy Speaker	TBD, BJP
Leader of the House	Pushkar Singh Dhami, BJP ; since 23 March 2022
Leader of the Opposition	TBD, INC
Chief Secretary	Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, IAS
Structure
Seats	70
Political groups	Government (47) BJP (47); Opposition (19) INC (19); Others (4) BSP (2); Independent (2);
Length of term	2022–2027
Elections
Voting system	first-past-the-post
Last election	14 February 2022
Next election	2027
Meeting place
	Vidhan Sabha Bhavan, Bhararisain (summer); Vidhan Sabha Bhavan, Dehradun (winter)
Website
	Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Constitution
	Constitution of India

The 2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election have elected the incumbent fifth Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. Elections were held on 14 February 2022 when Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the single largest party with 47 seats in the 70-seat legislature and formed the government.^[1] The Indian National Congress with 19 seats served as the opposition.

Office bearers[]

Office	Holder	Since	Ref
Constitutional Posts
Governor	Lt. Gen. Gurmit Singh (Retd.)	15 September 2021	^[2]
Speaker	Ritu Khanduri Bhushan	26 March 2022	^[3]^[4]
Deputy Speaker
Leader of the House (Chief Minister)	Pushkar Singh Dhami	23 March 2022	^[5]
Political posts
Leader of BJP legislature party	Pushkar Singh Dhami	23 March 2022
Leader of Opposition (Leader of INC legislature party)	Yashpal Arya	18 April 2022

Composition of the Assembly[]

Party	Abbr.	Seats	Leader in the House
Bharatiya Janata Party	BJP	47	Pushkar Singh Dhami
Indian National Congress	INC	19	Yashpal Arya
Bahujan Samaj Party	BSP	02	Sarwat Karim Ansari
Independent	Ind.	02	N/A
Total		70

Members of Legislative Assembly[]

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No.	Constituency	Name		Remarks
Uttarkashi District
1	Purola (SC)	Durgeshwar Lal	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	Yamunotri	Sanjay Dobhal	Independent
3	Gangotri		Bharatiya Janata Party
Chamoli District
4	Badrinath	Rajendra Singh Bhandari	Indian National Congress
5	Tharali (SC)		Bharatiya Janata Party
6	Karnaprayag	Anil Nautiyal	Bharatiya Janata Party
Rudraprayag District
7	Kedarnath	Shaila Rani Rawat	Bharatiya Janata Party
8	Rudraprayag		Bharatiya Janata Party
Tehri Garhwal District
9	Ghansali (SC)	Shakti Lal Shah	Bharatiya Janata Party
10	Devprayag	Vinod Kandari	Bharatiya Janata Party
11	Narendranagar	Subodh Uniyal	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
12	Pratapnagar		Indian National Congress
13	Tehri	Kishore Upadhyaya	Bharatiya Janata Party
14	Dhanaulti	Pritam Singh Panwar	Bharatiya Janata Party
Dehradun District
15	Chakrata (ST)	Pritam Singh	Indian National Congress
16	Vikasnagar	Munna Singh Chauhan	Bharatiya Janata Party
17	Sahaspur	Sahdev Singh Pundir	Bharatiya Janata Party
18	Dharampur	Vinod Chamoli	Bharatiya Janata Party
19	Raipur	Umesh Sharma 'Kau'	Bharatiya Janata Party
20	Rajpur Road (SC)	Khajan Das	Bharatiya Janata Party
21	Dehradun Cantonment	Savita Kapoor	Bharatiya Janata Party
22	Mussoorie	Ganesh Joshi	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
23	Doiwala		Bharatiya Janata Party
24	Rishikesh	Premchand Aggarwal	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
Haridwar District
25	Haridwar	Madan Kaushik	Bharatiya Janata Party
26	BHEL Ranipur	Adesh Chauhan	Bharatiya Janata Party
27	Jwalapur (SC)	Ravi Bahadur	Indian National Congress
28	Bhagwanpur (SC)	Mamta Rakesh	Indian National Congress
29	Jhabrera (SC)	Virendra Kumar	Indian National Congress
30	Piran Kaliyar	Furqan Ahmad	Indian National Congress
31	Roorkee	Pradip Batra	Bharatiya Janata Party
32	Khanpur		Independent
33	Manglaur	Sarwat Karim Ansari	Bahujan Samaj Party
34	Laksar	Shahzad	Bahujan Samaj Party
35	Haridwar Rural	Anupama Rawat	Indian National Congress
Pauri Garhwal District
36	Yamkeshwar	Renu Bisht	Bharatiya Janata Party
37	Pauri (SC)		Bharatiya Janata Party
38	Srinagar	Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
39	Chaubattakhal	Satpal Maharaj	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
40	Lansdowne	Dilip Singh Rawat	Bharatiya Janata Party
41	Kotdwar	Ritu Khanduri Bhushan	Bharatiya Janata Party	Speaker
Pithoragarh District
42	Dharchula	Harish Singh Dhami	Indian National Congress
43	Didihat	Bishan Singh Chuphal	Bharatiya Janata Party
44	Pithoragarh	Mayukh Mahar	Indian National Congress
45	Gangolihat (SC)		Bharatiya Janata Party
Bageshwar District
46	Kapkot		Bharatiya Janata Party
47	Bageshwar (SC)	Chandan Ram Das	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
Almora District
48	Dwarahat		Indian National Congress
49	Salt	Mahesh Singh Jeena	Bharatiya Janata Party
50	Ranikhet	Pramod Nainwal	Bharatiya Janata Party
51	Someshwar (SC)	Rekha Arya	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
52	Almora	Manoj Tiwari	Indian National Congress
53	Jageshwar		Bharatiya Janata Party
Champawat District
54	Lohaghat		Indian National Congress
55	Champawat	Pushkar Singh Dhami	Bharatiya Janata Party	Won in 2022 by-poll necessitated after resignation by Kailash Gahtori^[6]
Nainital District
56	Lalkuan		Bharatiya Janata Party
57	Bhimtal		Bharatiya Janata Party
58	Nainital (SC)	Sarita Arya	Bharatiya Janata Party
59	Haldwani	Sumit Hridayesh	Indian National Congress
60	Kaladhungi	Banshidhar Bhagat	Bharatiya Janata Party
61	Ramnagar		Bharatiya Janata Party
Udham Singh Nagar District
62	Jaspur	Adesh Singh Chauhan	Indian National Congress
63	Kashipur		Bharatiya Janata Party
64	Bajpur (SC)	Yashpal Arya	Indian National Congress	Leader of Opposition
65	Gadarpur	Arvind Pandey	Bharatiya Janata Party
66	Rudrapur	Shiv Arora	Bharatiya Janata Party
67	Kichha	Tilak Raj Behar	Indian National Congress
68	Sitarganj	Saurabh Bahuguna	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
69	Nanakmatta (ST)	Gopal Singh Rana	Indian National Congress
70	Khatima	Bhuwan Chandra Kapri	Indian National Congress	Deputy Leader of Opposition

References[]

[1] "Uttarakhand Election Result Live: 70 में 47 सीटों पर भाजपा और 19 पर कांग्रेस को मिली जीत, पीएम मोदी बोले- उत्तराखंड में रचा नया इतिहास".

[2] "Gurmit Singh Appointed Governor of U'khand, Purohit Gets Punjab, RN Ravi Shifted to Tamil Nadu". 9 September 2021.

[3] "रितु खंडूरी ने भरा नामांकन: 26 मार्च को उत्तराखंड को मिल जाएगी पहली महिला विधानसभा अध्यक्ष".

[4] "उत्तराखंड: रितु खंडूरी बनीं पहली महिला विधानसभा अध्यक्ष, निर्विरोध हुआ चुनाव, संसदीय कार्यमंत्री होंगे प्रेमचंद अग्रवाल".

[5] "Dhami: Dhami Takes Oath as 12th Cm, 8-member Cabinet Sworn in | Dehradun News - Times of India". The Times of India.

[6] "Pushkar Singh Dhami wins Champawat bypolls by 55,000 votes, retains CM post". The Indian Express. Retrieved 3 June 2022.

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5th Uttarakhand Assembly

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Office bearers[]

Composition of the Assembly[]

Members of Legislative Assembly[]

See also[]

References[]

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