2004 Indian general election in Uttarakhand

Last updated

2004 Indian general election in Uttarakhand
Flag of India.svg
10 May 2004 2009  

5 seats
Turnout48.07%
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Lotus flower symbol.svg Hand INC.svg Indian Election Symbol Cycle.png
Party BJP INC SP
Alliance NDA UPA
Seats won311
Percentage40.98%38.31%7.93%

Uttarakhand in India.png

The 2004 Indian general election in Uttarakhand, occurred for 5 seats in the state. 3 seats were won by the Bharatiya Janata Party, 1 seat by Indian National Congress and 1 seat by Samajwadi Party.

Contents

Elected MPs

Following is the list of elected MPs from Uttarakhand.

S. No.ConstituencyElected MPParty
1 Tehri Garhwal Manabendra Shah Bharatiya Janata Party
2 Garhwal Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri Bharatiya Janata Party
3 Almora Bachi Singh Rawat Bharatiya Janata Party
4 Nainital Karan Chand Singh Baba Indian National Congress
5 Haridwar (SC) Rajendra Kumar Badi Samajwadi Party

By-election

By-elections were held in 2007 for Tehri Garhwal constituency on the death of Elected MP Manabendra Shah and for Garhwal constituency as Elected MP B. C. Khanduri became the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.

In the election for Tehri Garhwal constituency, Indian National Congress candidate Vijay Bahuguna defeated Manujendra Shah, son of Manabendra Shah by margin of over 22,000.

In the election for Garhwal constituency, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Tejpal Singh Rawat defeated Satpal Maharaj.

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Indian National Lok Dal</span> Political party in India

Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is a political party based primarily in the Indian state of Haryana. It was initially founded as the Haryana Lok Dal (Rashtriya) by Devi Lal in 1996, who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">B. C. Khanduri</span> 4th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

Major General Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri (Retd.), AVSM, is an Indian politician. He was Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2007 to 2009 and 2011 to 2012. He was a Member of Parliament in the 16th Lok Sabha representing the Garhwal parliamentary constituency of Uttarakhand and is a senior member of the Bharatiya Janta Party. Earlier, he was a cabinet minister, Ministry of Surface Transport of the government headed by the former Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Lt. Col. Maharaja Manabendra Shah was a member of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Tehri Garhwal constituency of Uttarakhand and was a member of the Indian National Congress before joining the Bharatiya Jan Sangh and later the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party. He became one of the BJP's longest-serving members. Shah was ambassador to Ireland from 1980 to 1983.

Rajesh Verma is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha in 1999, the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004, the 16th Lok Sabha in 2014 and the 17th Lok Sabha in 2019 from Sitapur constituency in Uttar Pradesh state. In 2019 he won his fourth 4th election in Sitapur as a BJP candidate by 101,000 votes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna</span> Indian politician (1919–1989)

Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna was an Indian National Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; he later joined Bharatiya Lok Dal and worked with Charan Singh.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">15th Lok Sabha</span> 15th lower house of the Parliament of India

Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India. It was dissolved on 18 May 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aska Lok Sabha constituency</span> Lok Sabha Constituency in Odisha, India

Aska Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Odisha state in eastern India.

Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Tejpal Singh Rawat is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress in the state of Uttarakhand. He was a member of 14th Lok Sabha. He was elected from Garhwal Parliamentary constituency of Uttarakhand in 2008 by-poll as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a Retired Lt. Gen. from the Indian army. He was decorated with PVSM and VSM. After retirement in 2000 he joined politics and elected to Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly in 2002 from Dhumakot Assembly constituency.

Amethi is one of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. This constituency covers the entire Amethi district and was created in 1967. Its first member of parliament (MP) was Vidya Dhar Bajpai of the Indian National Congress (INC) who was elected in 1967 and held his seat in the next election in 1971. In the 1977 election, Ravindra Pratap Singh of the Janata Party became its MP. Singh was defeated in 1980 by Sanjay Gandhi of the INC. Later the same year, Gandhi died in a plane crash. This forced a by election in 1981 which was won by his brother, Rajiv Gandhi. Gandhi went on to represent this constituency until 1991, when he was assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The subsequent by election held the same year was won by Satish Sharma of the INC. Sharma was re-elected in 1996. Sanjaya Sinh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defeated Sharma in the 1998 election. The widow of Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi represented this constituency from 1999 to 2004. Her son, Rahul Gandhi, was elected in 2004. He was the fourth MP from the Nehru–Gandhi family since 1980 to represent the seat. Gandhi held the seat till the 2019 election when he was defeated by a margin of 55,000 votes by the BJP's Smriti Irani.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2009 Indian general election in Uttarakhand</span>

The 2009 Indian general election in Uttarakhand, occurred for 5 seats in the state. All 5 seats were won by the Indian National Congress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Garhwal Kingdom</span> Monarchy in Himalayan (823–1949)

Garhwal Kingdom was an independent Himalayan kingdom in the current north-western Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India, founded in 823 CE by Kanak Pal the progenitor of the Panwar dynasty that ruled over the kingdom uninterrupted until 1803 CE.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elections in Uttarakhand</span> Overview of the procedure of elections in the Indian state of Uttarakhand

Elections for the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly in Uttarakhand state, India are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India. The legislative assembly of Uttarakhand creates laws regarding the conduct of local body elections unilaterally while any changes by the state legislature to the conduct of state level elections need to be approved by the Parliament of India. In addition, the state legislature may be dismissed by the Parliament according to Article 356 of the Indian Constitution and President's rule may be imposed.

Dinesh Dhanai is an Indian politician. He has run as an independent MLA in Tehri (2012-2017) and served as a minister in the last Congress government in Uttarakhand.

Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah is a political and social worker, Member of Parliament elected from the Tehri Garhwal constituency in the Indian state of Uttarakhand being a Bhartiya Janata Party Leader and titular queen of erstwhile Tehri Garhwal kingdom which merged to India.

Gopal Kalan Tandel is an Indian politician. He was a Member of Parliament in the 8th and 1996-1998 in 11th Lok Sabha. He was the first parliamentarian to represent Daman and Diu in the Lok Sabha. He has been part of Indian National Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party, and currently Bharatiya Janata Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tirath Singh Rawat</span> 9th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

Tirath Singh Rawat is an Indian politician, a sitting Member of Parliament and former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. He was elected to the 17th Lok Sabha from the Garhwal constituency in the 2019 Indian general election as member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the party chief of Bharatiya Janata Party Uttarakhand from 9 February 2013 to 31 December 2015 and former member of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from Chaubattakhal constituency from 2012 to 2017. He was also the first Education Minister of Uttarakhand.

Elections in the Republic of India in 2018 included by-elections to the Lok Sabha, elections to the Rajya Sabha, elections to of eight states and numerous other by-elections to state legislative assemblies, councils and local bodies.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dhan Singh Negi</span> Indian politician

Dhan Singh Negi is an Indian politician who was a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from 2017 to 2022 representing the Tehri constituency in Tehri Garhwal district. Previously affiliated to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he switched to the Indian National Congress party (INC) in early 2022. In the 2017 state assembly elections, he defeated Dinesh Dhanai, then Cabinet Minister by a large margin.

Shakti Lal Shah is an Indian politician from Uttarakhand and a First term Member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. Shakti Lal Shah represents the Ghansali. Shakti Lal Shah is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vishvaraj Singh Mewar</span> Indian politician

Vishvaraj Singh Mewar is an Indian politician and a member of the erstwhile royal House of Mewar. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party and was elected as MLA from Nathdwara constituency. He defeated incumbent C.P. Joshi, five-term incumbent MLA and also current Speaker of the Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha.

References