3rd Uttarakhand Assembly

Election

Third Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly

Type
Type|

Unicameral

Houses| Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
History
Preceded by| 2nd Uttarakhand Assembly
Succeeded by| 4th Uttarakhand Assembly
Leadership

Speaker

Govind Singh Kunjwal, INC

Deputy Speaker

Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri, INC

Leader of the House

* Vijay Bahuguna (2012–2014), INC
* Harish Rawat (2014–2017)

, INC

Leader of the Opposition

Ajay Bhatt, BJP

Chief Secretary

Devi Prasad Gairola, IAS

Structure
Seats| 71[†]

Political groups

| Government (42)

* INC (36)
* BSP (2)
* UKD(P) (1)
* Independent (3)

Opposition (28)

* BJP (28)

Nominated (1)

* INC (1)

Length of term

| 2012–2017
Elections

Voting system

| first-past-the-post

Last election

| 30 January 2012

Next election

| 15 February 2017
Meeting place
Vidhan Bhavan, Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Website
Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Constitution
Constitution of India
Footnotes
^† 70 seats are open for the direct election while 1 seat is reserved for the member of Anglo-Indian community.
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Government and Politics of Uttarakhand
State of Uttarakhand
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The 2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election were the third Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) election of the state. Elections were held on 30 January 2012 when Indian National Congress emerged as the largest party with 32 seats in the 71-seat legislature and formed the government with the help of Bahujan Samaj Party, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P) and Independents. The Bharatiya Janata Party with 31 seats served as the official opposition.

The Indian National Congress emerged as the largest party with 32 seats in a house of 71. They were still four short of the majority to form a government. After much wrangling it was announced that the Bahujan Samaj Party, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P) and the three Independents would be supporting the government. The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party Government lost as they had only 31 seats out of 71 seats, lagging just one seat behind Indian National Congress.

After protracted discussions it was announced the Vijay Bahuguna would be Chief Minister and Harish Rawat would continue to serve as the Union Minister for Water Resources in the UPA government at Union level.

## Party position in the Assembly

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Rank  | Party  | Abbr.  | Seats  | Leader in the House

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1 | Indian National Congress | INC | 37 | Vijay Bahuguna (2012–2014)
Harish Rawat (2014–2017)
2 | Bahujan Samaj Party | BSP | 02 | Hari Das
3 | Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P) | UKD(P) | 01 | Pritam Singh Panwar
4 | Independent | Ind. | 03 | N/A
5 | Bharatiya Janata Party | BJP | 28 | Ajay Bhatt
| Total  |  | 71 |

## Key post holders in the Assembly

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* Speaker : Govind Singh Kunjwal
* Deputy Speaker : Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri
* Leader of the House: Vijay Bahuguna (2012–2014)
Harish Rawat (2014–2017)
* Leader of the Opposition : Ajay Bhatt
* Chief Secretary : Devi Prasad Gairola[1]

## Members of the Third Uttarakhand Assembly

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S. No.  | Constituency  | Elected Member  | Party affiliation

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1 | Purola (SC) | Mal Chand | BJP
2 | Yamunotri | Pritam Singh Panwar | UKD(P)
3  | Gangotri | Vijaypal Singh Sajwan | INC
4 | Badrinath | Rajendra Singh Bhandari | INC
5 | Tharali (SC) | Prof. Jeet Ram | INC
6 | Karnaprayag | Dr. Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri | INC
7 | Kedarnath | Shaila Rani Rawat | INC
8 | Rudraprayag | Dr. Harak Singh Rawat | INC
9 | Ghansali (SC) | Bhim Lal Arya | BJP
10 | Devprayag | Mantri Prasad Naithani | Independent
11 | Narendranagar | Subodh Uniyal | INC
12 | Pratapnagar | Vikram Singh Negi | INC
13 | Tehri | Dinesh Dhanai | Independent
14 | Dhanaulti | Mahavir Singh Rangarh | BJP
15 | Chakrata (ST) | Pritam Singh | INC
16 | Vikasnagar | Nav Prabhat | INC
17 | Sahaspur | Sahdev Singh Pundir | BJP
18 | Dharampur | Dinesh Agrawal | INC
19 | Raipur | Umesh Sharma 'Kau' | INC
20 | Rajpur Road (SC) | Rajkumar | INC
21 | Dehradun Cantonment | Harbans Kapoor | BJP
22 | Mussoorie | Ganesh Joshi | BJP
23 | Doiwala | Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'# | BJP
24 | Rishikesh | Premchand Aggarwal | BJP
25 | Haridwar | Madan Kaushik | BJP
26 | BHEL Ranipur | Adesh Chauhan | BJP
27 | Jwalapur (SC) | Chandra Shekhar | BJP
28 | Bhagwanpur (SC) | Surendra Rakesh† | BSP
29 | Jhabrera (SC) | Hari Das | BSP
30 | Piran Kaliyar | Furqan Ahmad | INC
31 | Roorkee | Pradip Batra | INC
32 | Khanpur | Pranav Singh 'Champion' | INC
33 | Manglaur | Sarwat Karim Ansari | BSP
34  | Laksar | Sanjay Gupta | BJP
35 | Haridwar Rural | Yatishwaranand | BJP
36 | Yamkeshwar | Vijaya Barthwal | BJP
37 | Pauri (SC) | Sundar Lal Mandrawal | INC
38 | Srinagar | Ganesh Godiyal | INC
39 | Chaubattakhal | Tirath Singh Rawat | BJP
40 | Lansdowne | Dilip Singh Rawat | BJP
41 | Kotdwar | Surendra Singh Negi | INC
42 | Dharchula | Harish Singh Dhami‡ | INC
43 | Didihat | Bishan Singh Chuphal | BJP
44 | Pithoragarh | Mayukh Singh Mahar | INC
45 | Gangolihat (SC) | Narayan Ram Arya | INC
46 | Kapkot | Lalit Pharswan | INC
47 | Bageshwar (SC) | Chandan Ram Das | BJP
48 | Dwarahat | Madan Singh Bisht | INC
49 | Salt | Surendra Singh Jeena | BJP
50 | Ranikhet | Ajay Bhatt | BJP
51 | Someshwar (SC) | Ajay Tamta# | BJP
52 | Almora | Manoj Tiwari | INC
53 | Jageshwar | Govind Singh Kunjwal | INC
54 | Lohaghat | Puran Singh Phartyal | BJP
55 | Champawat | Hemesh Kharkwal | INC
56 | Lalkuan | Harish Chandra Durgapal | Independent
57 | Bhimtal | Dan Singh Bhandari | BJP
58 | Nainital (SC) | Sarita Arya | INC
59 | Haldwani | Dr. Indira Hridayesh | INC
60 | Kaladhungi | Banshidhar Bhagat | BJP
61 | Ramnagar | Amrita Rawat | INC
62 | Jaspur | Dr. Shailendra Mohan Singhal | INC
63 | Kashipur | Harbhajan Singh Cheema | BJP
64 | Bajpur (SC) | Yashpal Arya | INC
65 | Gadarpur | Arvind Pandey | BJP
66 | Rudrapur | Rajkumar Thukral | BJP
67 | Kichha | Rajesh Shukla | BJP
68 | Sitarganj | Kiran Mandal‡ | BJP
69 | Nanakmatta (ST) | Dr. Prem Singh Rana | BJP
70 | Khatima | Pushkar Singh Dhami | BJP
71 | Anglo-Indian | Russell Valentine Gardner | INC

### By-elections

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S. No.  | Constituency  | Elected Member  | Party affiliation

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23 | Doiwala | Hira Singh Bisht | INC
28 | Bhagwanpur (SC) | Mamta Rakesh | INC
42 | Dharchula | Harish Rawat | INC
51 | Someshwar (SC) | Rekha Arya | INC
68 | Sitarganj | Vijay Bahuguna | INC

## See also

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* 2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election
* Vijay Bahuguna ministry
* Harish Rawat ministry
* Progressive Democratic Front (Uttarakhand)
* Politics of Uttarakhand

## Notes

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* † – Died in office
* ‡ – Resigned from office
* # – Elected to the 16th Lok Sabha

## References

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1. ^ "Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly". Archived from the original on 2012-04-09. Retrieved 2018-09-26.

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Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly

Governor|

Governor of Uttarakhand

Vidhan Sabha|

* Speaker
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Elections|

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