5th Uttarakhand Assembly

Fifth Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Fifth Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
Houses	Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
History
Preceded by	4th Uttarakhand Assembly
Leadership
Speaker	Ritu Khanduri Bhushan, BJP ; since 26 March 2022
Deputy Speaker	Vacant; since 10 March 2022
Leader of the House	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	Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, IAS
Structure
Seats	70
Political groups	Government (47); NDA (47) BJP (47); Opposition (23) INC (20); BSP (1); IND (2);
Length of term	2022–2027
Elections
Voting system	first-past-the-post
Last election	14 February 2022
Next election	2027
Meeting place
	Vidhan Bhavan, Bhararisain (Summer); Vidhan Bhavan, Dehradun (Winter)
Website
	Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Constitution
	Constitution of India

Last updated September 06, 2025

The 2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election had elected the incumbent fifth Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. Currently, the incubment Bharatiya Janata Party has 47 seats and the official opposition Indian National Congress has 20.^[2]

Party position of the Assembly

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

Key post holders in the assembly

S.No.	Position	Portrait	Name		Constituency	Office Taken	Ref
1	Speaker		Ritu Khanduri Bhushan	Bharatiya Janata Party	Kotdwar	26 March 2022	^[3]
2	Deputy Speaker	Vacant
3	Leader of the House		Pushkar Singh Dhami ( Chief Minister )	Bharatiya Janata Party	Champawat	23 March 2022	^[4]
4	Deputy Leader of the House		Subodh Uniyal (Parliamentary Affairs and Forest Minister)	Bharatiya Janata Party	Narendranagar	13 August 2025	^[5]
5	Leader of Opposition		Yashpal Arya	Indian National Congress	Bajpur	18 April 2022	^[6]
6	Deputy Leader of Opposition		Bhuwan Chandra Kapri	Indian National Congress	Khatima	18 April 2022	^[7]

Members of the Fifth Uttarakhand Assembly


District	No.	Constituency	Name		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
	4	Badrinath	Lakhpat Singh Butola	Indian National Congress	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
	7	Kedarnath	Asha Nautiyal	Bharatiya Janata Party	Elected in November 2024 by-election ^[8]
	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	Former 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^[9]
	33	Manglaur	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^[10]
	47	Bageshwar (SC)	Parwati Das	Bharatiya Janata Party	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
	55	Champawat	Pushkar Singh Dhami	Bharatiya Janata Party	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 ^[11]	BJP
47	Bageshwar	Parwati Das	BJP
4	Badrinath	Lakhpat Singh Butola	INC
33	Manglaur	Muhammad Nizamuddin	INC
7	Kedarnath	Asha Nautiyal	BJP

References

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[1] "SS Sandhu is Uttarakhand chief secy; Gadkari hails his tenure as NHAI chief". Tribuneindia News Service. 5 July 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2022.

[2] "Uttarakhand Election Result Live: 70 में 46 सीटों पर भाजपा और 20 पर कांग्रेस को मिली जीत, पीएम मोदी बोले- उत्तराखंड में रचा नया इतिहास".

[auto-3] "रितु खंडूरी ने भरा नामांकन: 26 मार्च को उत्तराखंड को मिल जाएगी पहली महिला विधानसभा अध्यक्ष".

[4] "Dhami: Dhami Takes Oath as 12th Cm, 8-member Cabinet Sworn in | Dehradun News - Times of India". The Times of India .

[5] ttps://www.etvbharat.com/hi/!state/uttarakhand-government-given-responsibility-of-parliamentary-affairs-minister-to-cabinet-minister-subodh-uniyal-uttarakhand-news-uts25081306462

[6] "Yashpal Arya - Biodata" (PDF). ukvidhansabha.uk.gov.in.

[7] "Congress names its Uttarakhand state unit chief, CLP leader". 11 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2023.

[8] "Uttarakhand Bypoll Results 2024: BJP's Asha Nautiyal wins Kedarnath seat by 5,622 votes margin". India TV. Retrieved 23 November 2024.

[9] "BSP legislator Sarwat Karim Ansari dies at 66". The Times of India. 31 October 2023. ISSN 0971-8257 . Retrieved 19 December 2023.

[10] "Uttarakhand minister Chandan Ram Dass dies at 65". News9live. 26 April 2023. Retrieved 26 April 2023.

[11] "Pushkar Singh Dhami wins Champawat bypolls by 55,000 votes, retains CM post". The Indian Express. 3 June 2022. Retrieved 3 June 2022.

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