2002 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election

The 2002 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election were the 1st Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) elections of the state of Uttarakhand in India, when the Indian National Congress emerged as the largest party with 36 seats in the 70-seat legislature in the election. The Bharatiya Janata Party became the official opposition, holding 19 seats.

2002 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election

← 1996 (UP) →Interim Assembly 14 February 2002 (2002-02-14) 2007 →
70 seats in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly 36 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	54.34%
Majority party Minority party Third party   BSP Leader Narayan Datt Tiwari Bhagat Singh Koshyari Narayan Pal Party INC BJP BSP Leader since 2002 2001 2002 Leader's seat Ramnagar (by-election) Kapkot Sitarganj Seats won 36 19 7 Popular vote 7,69,991 7,28,134 3,12,842 Percentage 26.91% 25.45% 10.93%
Uttarakhand
Chief Minister before election Bhagat Singh Koshyari BJP Elected Chief Minister Narayan Datt Tiwari INC

Interim Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly (2000-2002)

Party		Symbol	Seats
	Bharatiya Janata Party		23
	Samajwadi Party		3
	Bahujan Samaj Party		2
	Indian National Congress		2

Parties and alliances

  Indian National Congress

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Indian National Congress			N. D. Tiwari	70

  National Democratic Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Bharatiya Janata Party			Bhagat Singh Koshyari	69

Others

Party		flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Bahujan Samaj Party			Mayawati	68
	Uttarakhand Kranti Dal				62
	Nationalist Congress Party			Sharad Pawar	26

Results

2002 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election result (vote percentage) INC   26.91% BJP   25.45% BSP   10.93% SP   6.27% UKD   5.49% NCP   1.50% Others   23.45%

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes	% Votes in Seats Contested	Leader in the House
1	Indian National Congress (INC)	70	36	26.91%	26.91%	Narayan Datt Tiwari
2	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	69	19	25.45%	25.81%	Matbar Singh Kandari
3	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	68	07	10.93%	11.20%	Narayan Pal
4	Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD)	62	04	5.49%	6.36%	Kashi Singh Airy
5	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)	26	01	1.50%	4.02%	Balvir Singh Negi
6	Independents	–	03	16.30%	16.63%	N/A
	Total	–	70	–	–

List of elected Assembly members

S. No.	Constituency	Elected Member	Party affiliation
1	Purola (SC)	Mal Chand	BJP
2	Gangotri	Vijaypal Singh Sajwan	INC
3	Yamunotri	Pritam Singh Panwar	UKD
4	Pratapnagar	Phul Singh Bisht	INC
5	Tehri	Kishore Upadhyaya	INC
6	Ghansali	Balvir Singh Negi	NCP
7	Devprayag	Mantri Prasad Naithani	INC
8	Narendranagar	Subodh Uniyal	INC
9	Dhanaulti (SC)	Kaul Das	INC
10	Chakrata (ST)	Pritam Singh	INC
11	Vikasnagar	Nav Prabhat	INC
12	Sahaspur (SC)	Sadhu Ram	INC
13	Lakshman Chowk	Dinesh Agrawal	INC
14	Dehradun	Harbans Kapoor	BJP
15	Rajpur	Hira Singh Bisht	INC
16	Mussoorie	Jot Singh Gunsola	INC
17	Rishikesh	Shoorveer Singh Sajwan	INC
18	Doiwala	Trivendra Singh Rawat	BJP
19	Bhagwanpur (SC)	Chandra Shekhar	BJP
20	Roorkee	Suresh Chand Jain	BJP
21	Iqbalpur	Yashvir Singh	BSP
22	Manglaur	Muhammad Nizamuddin	BSP
23	Landhaura (SC)	Hari Das	BSP
24	Laksar	Pranav Singh 'Champion'	Independent
25	Bahadarabad	Muhammad Shahzad	BSP
26	Haridwar	Madan Kaushik	BJP
27	Laldhang	Taslim Ahmad	BSP
28	Yamkeshwar	Vijaya Barthwal	BJP
29	Kotdwar	Surendra Singh Negi	INC
30	Dhumakot	Lt. Gen. Tejpal Singh Rawat (Retd.)	INC
31	Bironkhal	Amrita Rawat	INC
32	Lansdowne	Dr. Harak Singh Rawat	INC
33	Pauri	Narendra Singh Bhandari	INC
34	Sringar (SC)	Sundar Lal Mandrawal	INC
35	Thalisain	Ganesh Godiyal	INC
36	Rudraprayag	Matbar Singh Kandari	BJP
37	Kedarnath	Asha Nautiyal	BJP
38	Badrinath	Dr. Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri	INC
39	Nandaprayag	Mahendra Bhatt	BJP
40	Karnaprayag	Anil Nautiyal	BJP
41	Pindar (SC)	Govind Lal	BJP
42	Kapkot	Bhagat Singh Koshyari	BJP
43	Kanda	Ummed Singh Majila	INC
44	Bageshwar (SC)	Ram Prasad Tamta	INC
45	Dwarahat	Bipin Chandra Tripathi	UKD
46	Bhikiyasain	Dr. Pratap Singh Bisht	INC
47	Salt	Ranjit Singh Rawat	INC
48	Ranikhet	Ajay Bhatt	BJP
49	Someshwar (SC)	Pradeep Tamta	INC
50	Almora	Kailash Sharma	BJP
51	Jageshwar	Govind Singh Kunjwal	INC
52	Mukteshwar (SC)	Yashpal Arya	INC
53	Dhari	Harish Chandra Durgapal	INC
54	Haldwani	Dr. Indira Hridayesh	INC
55	Nainital	Dr. Narayan Singh Jantwal	UKD
56	Ramnagar	Yogambar Singh Rawat	INC
57	Jaspur	Dr. Shailendra Mohan Singhal	Independent
58	Kashipur	Harbhajan Singh Cheema	BJP
59	Bajpur	Arvind Pandey	BJP
60	Pantnagar–Gadarpur	Premanand Mahajan	BSP
61	Rudrapur–Kichha	Tilak Raj Behar	INC
62	Sitarganj (SC)	Narayan Pal	BSP
63	Khatima (ST)	Gopal Singh Rana	INC
64	Champawat	Hemesh Kharkwal	INC
65	Lohaghat	Mahendra Singh Mahra	INC
66	Pithoragarh	Prakash Pant	BJP
67	Gangolihat (SC)	Narayan Ram Arya	INC
68	Didihat	Bishan Singh Chuphal	BJP
69	Kanalichhina	Kashi Singh Airy	UKD
70	Dharchula (ST)	Gagan Singh Rajwar	Independent

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See also

• 1st Uttarakhand Assembly
• Tiwari ministry
• Elections in Uttarakhand
• Politics of Uttarakhand
• 2002 elections in India