# 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election

The 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election 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.
The voter turnout for the 69 seats of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly that was held on 15 February was 65.64% 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. Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines were used along with EVM in four assembly constituencies in Uttarakhand.
| 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. :
| BHEL Ranipur | Dharampur | Haldwani | Rudrapur |

### Voter statistics

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

## Opinion polls

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

## Results

Result were declared on 11 March 2017.
| 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%) |
| Seats | 57 / 70 | 11 / 70 | 2 / 70 | 0 / 70 | 0 / 70 |
← Summary of the 15 February 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election results :
| Parties and coalitions | Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Popular vote | Popular vote | Seats | Seats |
| Parties and coalitions | Parties and coalitions | 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 | Total | 4,975,494 | 100.00 | | 70 | ±0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 49,75,494 | 99.72 | | | |
| Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 14,196 | 0.28 | | | |
| Votes cast / turnout | Votes cast / turnout | 49,89,690 | 65.60 | | | |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | 26,16,998 | 34.40 | | | |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | 76,06,688 | | | | |

## Results by constituency

Results :
| Assembly Constituency | Assembly Constituency | Turnout (%) | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Margin |
| # | Name | Turnout (%) | Candidate | Party | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Party | Votes | % | Margin |
| 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.
| 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 |