Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly

The Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, also known as the Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha, is a unicameral governing and law making body of Uttarakhand, one of the 28 states of India. It is seated at Dehradun, the winter capital, and Gairsain, the summer capital of Uttarakhand. The total strength of the assembly is 70 Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA).

Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
5th Uttarakhand Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
Term limits	5 years
History
Founded	14 February 2002
Preceded by	Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Leadership
Speaker	Ritu Khanduri Bhushan, BJP since 26 March 2022
Deputy Speaker	vacant since 10 March 2022
Leader of the House (Chief Minister)	Pushkar Singh Dhami, BJP since 4 July 2021
Leader of the Opposition	Yashpal Arya, INC since 10 April 2022
Deputy Leader of the Opposition	Bhuwan Chandra Kapri, INC since 10 April 2022
Chief Secretary	Radha Raturi IAS
Structure
Seats	70
Political groups	Government (47)   BJP (47) Official Opposition (20)   INC (20) Other Opposition (3)   BSP (1)   IND (2)
Elections
Voting system	First-past-the-post
Last election	14 February 2022
Next election	2027
Redistricting	2012
Meeting place
Vidhan Bhavan, Gairsain (summer) Vidhan Bhavan, Dehradun (winter)
Website
Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Constitution
Constitution of India

As of March 2022, Pushkar Singh Dhami is the current Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and Leader of the House in the 5th Vidhan Sabha.^[1] The Speaker of the Assembly is Ritu Khanduri Bhushan. Gurmit Singh is the current Governor of Uttarakhand.

History

Main article: History of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly

Composition

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Party	Abbr.	Seats	Leader in the House
Bharatiya Janata Party	BJP	47	Pushkar Singh Dhami
Indian National Congress	INC	20	Yashpal Arya
Bahujan Samaj Party	BSP	01	Muhammad Shahzad
Independent	Ind.	02	N/A
Total		70

Members of Legislative Assembly

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District	No.	Constituency	Name	Party		Remarks
Uttarkashi	1	Purola (SC)	Durgeshwar Lal		Bharatiya Janata Party
	2	Yamunotri	Sanjay Dobhal		Independent
	3	Gangotri	Suresh Singh Chauhan		Bharatiya Janata Party
Chamoli	4	Badrinath	Rajendra Singh Bhandari		Indian National Congress	Resigned on 17 March 2024
			Lakhpat Singh Butola			Elected on 13 July 2024
	5	Tharali (SC)	Bhupal Ram Tamta		Bharatiya Janata Party
	6	Karnaprayag	Anil Nautiyal		Bharatiya Janata Party
Rudraprayag	7	Kedarnath	Shaila Rani Rawat		Bharatiya Janata Party	Died on 9 July 2024
			Asha Nautiyal			Elected in November 2024 by-election[2]
	8	Rudraprayag	Bharat Singh Chaudhary		Bharatiya Janata Party
Tehri Garhwal	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	Vikram Singh Negi		Indian National Congress
	13	Tehri	Kishore Upadhyaya		Bharatiya Janata Party
	14	Dhanaulti	Pritam Singh Panwar		Bharatiya Janata Party
Dehradun	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 Dass		Bharatiya Janata Party
	21	Dehradun Cantonment	Savita Kapoor		Bharatiya Janata Party
	22	Mussoorie	Ganesh Joshi		Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	23	Doiwala	Brij Bhushan Gairola		Bharatiya Janata Party
	24	Rishikesh	Premchand Aggarwal		Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
Haridwar	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	Umesh Kumar		Independent
	33	Manglaur	Sarwat Karim Ansari		Bahujan Samaj Party	Died on 30 October 2023[3]
			Muhammad Nizamuddin		Indian National Congress	Elected on 13 July 2024
	34	Laksar	Muhammad Shahzad		Bahujan Samaj Party
	35	Haridwar Rural	Anupama Rawat		Indian National Congress
Pauri Garhwal	36	Yamkeshwar	Renu Bisht		Bharatiya Janata Party
	37	Pauri (SC)	Rajkumar Pori		Bharatiya Janata Party
	38	Srinagar	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	42	Dharchula	Harish Singh Dhami		Indian National Congress
	43	Didihat	Bishan Singh Chuphal		Bharatiya Janata Party
	44	Pithoragarh	Mayukh Singh Mahar		Indian National Congress
	45	Gangolihat (SC)	Fakir Ram Tamta		Bharatiya Janata Party
Bageshwar	46	Kapkot	Suresh Singh Garhia		Bharatiya Janata Party
	47	Bageshwar (SC)	Chandan Ram Das		Bharatiya Janata Party	Died on 26 April 2023[4]
			Parwati Das			Elected on 8 September 2023
Almora	48	Dwarahat	Madan Singh Bisht		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	Mohan Singh Mahara		Bharatiya Janata Party
Champawat	54	Lohaghat	Khushal Singh Adhikari		Indian National Congress
	55	Champawat	Kailash Chandra Gahtori		Bharatiya Janata Party	Resigned on 21 April 2022
			Pushkar Singh Dhami			Elected on 3 June 2022
Nainital	56	Lalkuan	Mohan Singh Bisht		Bharatiya Janata Party
	57	Bhimtal	Ram Singh Kaira		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	Diwan Singh Bisht		Bharatiya Janata Party
Udham Singh Nagar	62	Jaspur	Adesh Singh Chauhan		Indian National Congress
	63	Kashipur	Trilok Singh Cheema		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

By-elections

S. No.	Constituency	Elected Member	Party affiliation
55	Champawat	Pushkar Singh Dhami[5]	BJP
47	Bageshwar	Parwati Das	BJP
4	Badrinath	Lakhpat Singh Butola	INC
33	Manglaur	Muhammad Nizamuddin	INC

See also

• Government of Uttarakhand
• Governor of Uttarakhand
• Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
• Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
• Leader of the Opposition in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
• Cabinet of Uttarakhand
• List of constituencies of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
• List of former constituencies of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
• List of by-elections to the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
• Lok Sabha
• Rajya Sabha
• State Legislature
• State Legislative Assemblies
• State Legislative Councils

Notes

• ^A In the 2012 Assembly election, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal contested as "Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P)" led by then party president Trivendra Singh Panwar. The original party name and the election symbol (chair) was frozen by the Election Commission of India following the factionism and leadership dispute within the party that led to its break-up. Its original name and party symbol were restored in 2017.