2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election

The 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election^[1] was the 4th Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) election of the state of Uttarakhand in India. Elections were held on 15 February 2017 in a single phase for the 69 seats of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. Voting in the Karnaprayag constituency was postponed until 9 March 2017 due to the death of BSP candidate Kuldeep Kanwasi in a road accident. In the previous election in 2012, none of the parties won a majority but the Indian National Congress formed the government with the help of PDF with the leadership of Vijay Bahuguna.

2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election

← 2012 15 February 2017 2022 →
70 seats in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly 36 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	65.56% ( 0.61%)
Majority party Minority party   Leader Trivendra Singh Rawat Harish Rawat Party BJP INC Leader since 2017 2014 Leader's seat Doiwala Haridwar Rural, Kichha (both lost) Last election 31 32 Seats won 57 11 Seat change 26 21 Popular vote 23,12,912 16,65,664 Percentage 46.5% 33.5% Swing 13.37% 0.29%
Constituency-wise result of the 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election
Structure of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly after the election
Chief Minister before election Harish Rawat INC Elected Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat BJP

The voter turnout for the 69 seats of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly that was held on 15 February was 65.64%^[2] which is less than the last election's voter turnout of 66.85%.

Schedule and electorate

The schedule for the Uttarakhand Assembly Election was announced by the Election Commission of India on 4 January 2017 and elections took place on 15 February 2017. 69 out of 70 ACs went on to the polls on the same day but the polls were postponed for Karnaprayag Assembly constituency to 9 March. The results were announced on 11 March 2017.^[3] Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines were used along with EVM in four assembly constituencies in Uttarakhand.^[4]

Event	Date	Day
Date for nominations	20 Jan 2017	Friday
Last Date for filing nominations	27 Jan 2017	Friday
Date for scrutiny of nominations	30 Jan 2017	Monday
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	1 Feb 2017	Wednesday
Date of poll	15 Feb 2017	Wednesday
Date of counting	11 Mar 2017	Saturday
Date before which the election shall be completed	15 Mar 2017	Wednesday

Assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand having VVPAT facility with EVMs.[5][6]
BHEL Ranipur	Dharampur	Haldwani	Rudrapur

Voter statistics

Source [7]
Total	75,92,996
Male	39,23,492
Female	35,72,029
Third Gender	151
Service	97,324
Total Polling Station
10,854

Parties and alliances

  National Democratic Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Bharatiya Janata Party			Trivendra Singh Rawat	70

  United Progressive Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Indian National Congress			Harish Rawat	70

Others

Party		flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Bahujan Samaj Party			Mayawati	69
	Uttarakhand Kranti Dal				63

Opinion polls

Polling firm/Link/Portal	Survey Dates	INC	BJP	Others
Uttarakhand Post [8]	10 January 2017	36	29	5
ABP News-Lokniti[9]	5 January 2017	22-30 (26)	35-43 (39)	-
India Today-Axis[10]	5 January 2017	18-23 (21)	41-46 (44)	2-6 (4)
India Today-Axis[11]	14 October 2016	26-31 (29)	38-43 (41)	1-4 (3)
Polls Average		28	38	4

Results

Result were declared on 11 March 2017.^[12][13]

Party	BJP	INC	Independent	BSP	Others
Leader	Trivendra Singh Rawat	Harish Rawat	N/A	Hari Das	N/A
Votes	46.5%,2314250	33.5%,1666379	10.0%,499674	7.0%,347533	3.0%,147658
Seats	57 (81.43%)	11 (15.71%)	2 (2.86%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)
	57 / 70	11 / 70	2 / 70	0 / 70	0 / 70

← Summary of the 15 February 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election results

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	2,314,250	46.5	13.4	57	26
	Indian National Congress (INC)	1,666,379	33.5	0.3	11	21
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	347,533	7.0	5.2	0	3
	Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD)	37,041	0.7	1.2	0	1
	Samajwadi Party (SP)	18,202	0.4	1.0	0
	Independents (IND)	499,674	10.0	2.3	2	1
	None of the Above (NOTA)	50,439	1.0	—
Total		4,975,494	100.00		70	±0
Valid votes		49,75,494	99.72
Invalid votes		14,196	0.28
Votes cast / turnout		49,89,690	65.60
Abstentions		26,16,998	34.40
Registered voters		76,06,688

Results by constituency

Results

Assembly Constituency		Turnout (%)	Winner					Runner Up					Margin
#	Name		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%
Uttarkashi District
1	Purola	73.38	Raj Kumar		INC	17,798	36.49	Mal Chand		BJP	16,785	34.41	1,013
2	Yamunotri	66.91	Kedar Singh Rawat		BJP	19,800	42.41	Sanjay Dobhal		INC	13,840	29.64	5,960
3	Gangotri	67.53	Gopal Singh Rawat		BJP	25,683	46.93	Vijaypal Singh Sajwan		INC	16,073	29.37	9,610
Chamoli District
4	Badrinath	62.32	Mahendra Bhatt		BJP	29,676	47.31	Rajendra Singh Bhandari		INC	24,042	38.33	5,634
5	Tharali	57.17	Magan Lal Shah		BJP	25,931	45.37	Prof. Jeet Ram		INC	21,073	36.87	4,864
6	Karnaprayag	56.57	Surendra Singh Negi		BJP	28,159	52.50	Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri		INC	20,610	38.42	7,549
Rudraprayag District
7	Kedarnath	65.25	Manoj Rawat		INC	13,906	25.06	Kuldip Singh Rawat		IND	13,037	23.49	869
8	Rudraprayag	58.96	Bharat Singh Rawat		BJP	29,333	51.54	Lakshmi Singh Rana		INC	14,701	25.83	16,632
Tehri Garhwal District
9	Ghansali	49.03	Shakti Lal Shah		BJP	22,103	50.46	Dhani Lal Shah		IND	10,450	23.86	11,653
10	Devprayag	53.03	Vinod Kandari		BJP	13,824	31.97	Diwakar Bhatt		IND	10,325	23.97	3,499
11	Narendranagar	53.03	Subodh Uniyal		BJP	24,104	46.37	Om Gopal Rawat		IND	19,132	36.81	4,972
12	Pratapnagar	51.23	Vijay Singh Panwar		BJP	15,058	36.93	Vikram Singh Negi		INC	13,119	32.17	1,939
13	Tehri	54.65	Dhan Singh Negi		BJP	20,896	47.62	Dinesh Dhanai		IND	14,056	32.02	6,840
14	Dhanaulti	64.42	Pritam Singh Panwar		IND	17,811	36.45	Narayan Singh Rana		BJP	16,196	33.14	1,615
Dehradun District
15	Chakrata	72.19	Pritam Singh		INC	34,968	48.91	Madhu Chauhan		BJP	33,425	46.75	1,543
16	Vikasnagar	70.58	Munna Singh Chauhan		BJP	38,895	50.76	Nav Prabhat		INC	32,477	42.38	6,508
17	Sahaspur	72.80	Sahdev Singh Pundir		BJP	44,055	40.75	Kishore Upadhyaya		INC	25,192	23.30	18,863
18	Dharampur	57.43	Vinod Chamoli		BJP	53,828	50.96	Dinesh Agrawal		INC	42,875	40.59	10,953
19	Raipur	59.64	Umesh Sharma 'Kau'		BJP	59,764	61.07	Prabhulal Bahuguna		INC	22,993	23.49	36,771
20	Rajpur Road	57.97	Khajan Dass		BJP	36,601	53.22	Raj Kumar		INC	27,969	40.67	8,632
21	Dehradun Cantonment	57.07	Harbans Kapoor		BJP	41,142	56.98	Suryakant Dhasmana		INC	24,472	33.89	16,670
22	Mussoorie	57.91	Ganesh Joshi		BJP	41,322	55.14	Godavari Thapli		INC	29,245	39.02	12,077
23	Doiwala	67.83	Trivendra Singh Rawat		BJP	58,502	61.08	Hira Singh Bisht		INC	33,633	35.11	24,869
24	Rishikesh	64.70	Premchand Aggarwal		BJP	45,082	46.20	Rajpal Kharola		INC	30,281	31.03	14,801
Haridwar District
25	Haridwar	65.18	Madan Kaushik		BJP	61,742	66.45	Brahmaswarup Brahmachari		INC	25,815	27.78	35,927
26	BHEL Ranipur	70.65	Adesh Chauhan		BJP	56,644	54.84	Ambrish Kumar		INC	34,404	33.31	22,240
27	Jwalapur	66.91	Suresh Rathod		BJP	29,513	34.22	S. P. Singh 'Engineer'		INC	24,725	28.67	4,788
28	Bhagwanpur	80.02	Mamta Rakesh		INC	44,882	48.36	Subodh Rakesh		BJP	42,369	45.66	2,513
29	Jhabrera	76.28	Deshraj Karnwal		BJP	32,146	38.25	Rajpal Singh		INC	29,893	35.57	2,253
30	Piran Kaliyar	81.52	Furqan Ahmad		INC	29,243	32.43	Jai Bhagwan		BJP	27,894	30.93	1,349
31	Roorkee	63.84	Pradip Batra		BJP	40,000	55.58	Suresh Chand Jain		INC	27,458	38.16	12,542
32	Khanpur	76.28	Kunwar Pranav Singh 'Champion'		BJP	53,192	49.89	Riyasat Ali		BSP	39,457	37.01	13,735
33	Manglaur	78.22	Muhammad Nizamuddin		INC	31,352	38.75	Sarwat Karim Ansari		BSP	28,684	35.45	2,668
34	Laksar	81.94	Sanjay Gupta		BJP	25,248	32.46	Taslim Ahmad		INC	23,644	30.40	1,604
35	Haridwar Rural	81.71	Yatishwaranand		BJP	44,964	46.08	Harish Rawat		INC	32,686	33.50	12,278
Pauri Garhwal District
36	Yamkeshwar	52.70	Ritu Khanduri Bhushan		BJP	19,671	43.96	Renu Bisht		IND	10,689	23.89	8,982
37	Pauri	51.83	Mukesh Singh Koli		BJP	24,469	55.19	Naval Kishor		INC	19,439	40.53	7,030
38	Srinagar	57.12	Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat		BJP	30,816	51.84	Ganesh Godiyal		INC	22,118	37.21	8,698
39	Chaubattakhal	48.16	Satpal Maharaj		BJP	20,931	31.23	Rajpal Singh Bisht		INC	13,567	16.93	7,354
40	Lansdowne		Dilip Singh Rawat		BJP	22,246		Tejpal Singh Rawat		INC	15,771		6,475
41	Kotdwar		Harak Singh Rawat		BJP	39,859		Surendra Singh Negi		INC	28,541		11,318
Pithoragarh District
42	Dharchula		Harish Singh Dhami		INC	25,597		Virendra Singh Pal		BJP	22,512		3,085
43	Didihat		Bishan Singh Chuphal		BJP	17,392		Kishan Bhandari		IND	15,024		2,368
44	Pithoragarh		Prakash Pant		BJP	32,941		Mayukh Singh Mahar		INC	30,257		2,684
45	Gangolihat		Meena Gangola		BJP	20,418		Narayan Ram Arya		INC	19,613		805
Bageshwar District
46	Kapkot	61.78	Balwant Singh Bhauryal		BJP	27,213	46.39	Lalit Pharswan		INC	21,231	36.19	5,982
47	Bageshwar	59.86	Chandan Ram Das		BJP	33,792	51.24	Bal Krishna		INC	19,225	29.15	14,567
Almora District
48	Dwarahat		Mahesh Singh Negi		BJP	20,221		Madan Singh Bisht		INC	13,628		6,593
49	Salt		Surendra Singh Jeena		BJP	21,581		Ganga Pancholi		INC	18,677		2,904
50	Ranikhet		Karan Mahra		INC	19,035		Ajay Bhatt		BJP	14,054		4,981
51	Someshwar		Rekha Arya		BJP	23,107		Rajendra Barakoti		INC	22,397		710
52	Almora		Raghunath Singh Chauhan		BJP	26,464		Manoj Tiwari		INC	21,085		5,379
53	Jageshwar		Govind Singh Kunjwal		INC	24,132		Subhash Pandey		BJP	23,733		399
Champawat District
54	Lohaghat		Puran Singh Phartyal		BJP	26,468		Khushal Singh		INC	26,320		848
55	Champawat		Kailash Chandra Gahtori		BJP	36,601		Hemesh Kharkwal		INC	19,241		17,360
Nainital District
56	Lalkuan		Navin Chandra Dumka		BJP	44,293		Harish Chandra Durgapal		INC	17,185		27,108
57	Bhimtal		Ram Singh Kaira		IND	18,878		Govind Singh Bisht		BJP	15,432		3,446
58	Nainital		Sanjiv Arya		BJP	30,036		Sarita Arya		INC	22,789		7,247
59	Haldwani		Indira Hridayesh		INC	43,786		Dr. Jogendra Pal Singh Rautela		BJP	37,229		6,557
60	Kaladhungi		Banshidhar Bhagat		BJP	45,704		Prakash Joshi		INC	25,107		20,597
61	Ramnagar		Diwan Singh Bisht		BJP	35,839		Ranjit Singh Rawat		INC	27,228		8,611
Udham Singh Nagar District
62	Jaspur		Adesh Singh Chauhan		INC	42,551		Dr. Shailendra Mohan Singhal		BJP	38,347		4,204
63	Kashipur		Harbhajan Singh Cheema		BJP	50,156		Manoj Joshi		INC	30,042		20,114
64	Bajpur		Yashpal Arya		BJP	54,965		Sunita Tamta		INC	42,329		12,636
65	Gadarpur		Arvind Pandey		BJP	41,530		Rajendra Pal Singh		INC	27,424		14,106
66	Rudrapur		Rajkumar Thukral		BJP	68,754		Tilak Raj Behar		INC	43,983		24,771
67	Kichha		Rajesh Shukla		BJP	40,363		Harish Rawat		INC	38,236		2,127
68	Sitarganj		Saurabh Bahuguna		BJP	50,597		Malti Biswas		INC	22,147		28,450
69	Nanakmatta		Prem Singh Rana		BJP	42,785		Gopal Singh Rana		INC	33,254		9,531
70	Khatima		Pushkar Singh Dhami		BJP	29,539		Bhuwan Chandra Kapri		INC	26,830		2,709

List of elected Assembly members

Complete list of winners with the margin of winning votes.^[14]

S. No.	Constituency	Elected Member	Party affiliation
1	Purola (SC)	Raj Kumar	INC
2	Yamunotri	Kedar Singh Rawat	BJP
3	Gangotri	Gopal Singh Rawat	BJP
4	Badrinath	Mahendra Bhatt	BJP
5	Tharali (SC)	Magan Lal Shah	BJP
6	Karnaprayag	Surendra Singh Negi	BJP
7	Kedarnath	Manoj Rawat	INC
8	Rudraprayag	Bharat Singh Rawat	BJP
9	Ghansali (SC)	Shakti Lal Shah	BJP
10	Devprayag	Vinod Kandari	BJP
11	Narendranagar	Subodh Uniyal	BJP
12	Pratapnagar	Vijay Singh Panwar	BJP
13	Tehri	Dhan Singh Negi	BJP
14	Dhanaulti	Pritam Singh Panwar	Independent
15	Chakrata (ST)	Pritam Singh	INC
16	Vikasnagar	Munna Singh Chauhan	BJP
17	Sahaspur	Sahdev Singh Pundir	BJP
18	Dharampur	Vinod Chamoli	BJP
19	Raipur	Umesh Sharma 'Kau'	BJP
20	Rajpur Road (SC)	Khajan Dass	BJP
21	Dehradun Cantonment	Harbans Kapoor	BJP
22	Mussoorie	Ganesh Joshi	BJP
23	Doiwala	Trivendra Singh Rawat	BJP
24	Rishikesh	Premchand Aggarwal	BJP
25	Haridwar	Madan Kaushik	BJP
26	BHEL Ranipur	Adesh Chauhan	BJP
27	Jwalapur (SC)	Suresh Rathod	BJP
28	Bhagwanpur (SC)	Mamta Rakesh	INC
29	Jhabrera (SC)	Deshraj Karnwal	BJP
30	Piran Kaliyar	Furqan Ahmad	INC
31	Roorkee	Pradip Batra	BJP
32	Khanpur	Pranav Singh 'Champion'	BJP
33	Manglaur	Muhammad Nizamuddin	INC
34	Laksar	Sanjay Gupta	BJP
35	Haridwar Rural	Yatishwaranand	BJP
36	Yamkeshwar	Ritu Khanduri Bhushan	BJP
37	Pauri (SC)	Mukesh Singh Koli	BJP
38	Srinagar	Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat	BJP
39	Chaubattakhal	Satpal Maharaj	BJP
40	Lansdowne	Dilip Singh Rawat	BJP
41	Kotdwar	Dr. Harak Singh Rawat	BJP
42	Dharchula	Harish Singh Dhami	INC
43	Didihat	Bishan Singh Chuphal	BJP
44	Pithoragarh	Prakash Pant	BJP
45	Gangolihat (SC)	Mina Gangola	BJP
46	Kapkot	Balwant Singh Bhauryal	BJP
47	Bageshwar (SC)	Chandan Ram Das	BJP
48	Dwarahat	Mahesh Singh Negi	BJP
49	Salt	Surendra Singh Jeena	BJP
50	Ranikhet	Karan Mahara	INC
51	Someshwar (SC)	Rekha Arya	BJP
52	Almora	Raghunath Singh Chauhan	BJP
53	Jageshwar	Govind Singh Kunjwal	INC
54	Lohaghat	Puran Singh Phartyal	BJP
55	Champawat	Kailash Chandra Gahtori	BJP
56	Lalkuan	Navin Chandra Dumka	BJP
57	Bhimtal	Ram Singh Kaira	Independent
58	Nainital (SC)	Sanjiv Arya	BJP
59	Haldwani	Dr. Indira Hridayesh	INC
60	Kaladhungi	Banshidhar Bhagat	BJP
61	Ramnagar	Diwan Singh Bisht	BJP
62	Jaspur	Adesh Singh Chauhan	INC
63	Kashipur	Harbhajan Singh Cheema	BJP
64	Bajpur (SC)	Yashpal Arya	BJP
65	Gadarpur	Arvind Pandey	BJP
66	Rudrapur	Rajkumar Thukral	BJP
67	Kichha	Rajesh Shukla	BJP
68	Sitarganj	Saurabh Bahuguna	BJP
69	Nanakmatta (ST)	Dr. Prem Singh Rana	BJP
70	Khatima	Pushkar Singh Dhami	BJP

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See also

• 4th Uttarakhand Assembly
• Trivendra Singh Rawat ministry
• Tirath Singh Rawat ministry
• First Dhami ministry
• Elections in Uttarakhand
• Politics of Uttarakhand
• 2017 elections in India