Garhwal (Lok Sabha constituency)

Garhwal
Garhwal
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Tirath Singh Rawat
Parliamentary Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1952
Reservation	None
State	Uttarakhand
Former MP	Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri
Assembly Constituencies	14: Badrinath, Tharali, Karnaprayag, Kedarnath, Rudraprayag, Devprayag, Narendranagar, Yamkeshwar, Pauri, Srinagar, Chaubattakhal, Lansdowne, Kotdwar and Ramnagar

Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency is one of the five Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttarakhand. This constituency came into existence in 1957, following the delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies. It comprises five districts namely Chamoli, Nainital (part), Pauri Garhwal, Rudraprayag and Tehri Garhwal (part).

Assembly segments[]

At present, Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following fourteen Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:^[1]

District	Assembly constituency segments
District	Number	Name	SC/ST
Chamoli
	4	Badrinath
	5	Tharali	SC
	6	Karnaprayag
Rudraprayag	7	Kedarnath
Rudraprayag	8	Rudraprayag
Tehri Garhwal	10	Devprayag
Tehri Garhwal	11	Narendranagar
Pauri Garhwal	36	Yamkeshwar
	37	Pauri	SC
	38	Srinagar
	39	Chaubattakhal
	40	Lansdowne
	41	Kotdwar
Nainital	61	Ramnagar

Before the formation of Uttarakhand

Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency comprised the following five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituency segments of Uttar Pradesh:

District	Assembly constituency segments
District	Name	SC/ST
Bijnor	Najibabad
Chamoli
	Badri–Kedar
	Karnaprayag
Pauri Garhwal
	Lansdowne
	Pauri

Election	Member
1951–52	Bhakt Darshan	Indian National Congress
1957
1962
1967
1971	Pratap Singh Negi	Indian National Congress (R)
1977	Jagannath Sharma	Janata Party
1980	Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna	Indian National Congress (I)
1982 (By-election)	Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna	Independent
1984	Chandra Mohan Singh Negi	Indian National Congress (I)
1989	Chandra Mohan Singh Negi	Janata Dal
1991	Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri	Bharatiya Janata Party
1996	Satpal Maharaj	All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)
1998	Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999
2004
2008 (By-election)	Tejpal Singh Rawat
2009	Satpal Maharaj	Indian National Congress
2014	Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Tirath Singh Rawat	Bharatiya Janata Party

2019 Indian general elections: Garhwal
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Tirath Singh Rawat	5,06,980	68.25
	INC	Manish Khanduri	2,04,311	27.51
	NOTA	None of the Above	12,276	1.65
	IND	Vinod Prasad Notiyal	5,302	2.71
Margin of victory			3,02,669	40.75
Turnout			7,48,022	55.17	+1.19
	BJP hold		Swing

2014 Indian general elections: Garhwal
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri	4,05,690	59.48	+15.07
	INC	Harak Singh Rawat	2,21,164	32.43	-8.72
	BSP	Dheer Singh Bisht	9,250	1.36
	NOTA	None of the Above	8,659	1.27	New
Margin of victory			1,84,526	27.06	+23.80
Turnout			6,84,014	53.98
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	+10.71

2009 Indian general elections: Garhwal
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Satpal Maharaj	2,36,949	44.12
	BJP	Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Tejpal Singh Rawat	2,19,552	40.88
	BSP	Rajeev Agarwal	34,622	6.45
	CPI	Lalita Prasad Bhatt	7,330	1.36
Margin of victory			17,397	3.26
Turnout			5,33,843	48.87
	INC gain from BJP		Swing