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The 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election [1] were 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 in the leadership of Vijay Bahuguna.
The voter turnout for the 69 seats of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly that held on 15 February was 65.64% [2] which is less than the last election's voter turnout of 66.85%.
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 polls on the same day but 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] | |||
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BHEL Ranipur | Dharampur | Haldwani | Rudrapur |
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 |
Polling firm/Link/Portal | Survey Dates | INC | BJP | Others |
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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 |
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 | |
Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||||
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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 |
This section needs to be updated.(November 2021) |
Complete list of winners with the margin of winning votes.
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