3rd Uttarakhand Assembly


The 2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election were the third Vidhan Sabha 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 70-seat legislature and formed the government with the help of Bahujan Samaj Party, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal 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 70. 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 and the three Independents would be supporting the government. The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party Government lost as they had only 31 seats out of 70 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

Key post holders in the Assembly

Harish Rawat
S. No.ConstituencyElected MemberParty affiliation
1Purola Mal ChandBJP
2YamunotriPritam Singh PanwarUKD
3GangotriVijaypal Singh SajwanINC
4BadrinathRajendra Singh BhandariINC
5Tharali Dr. Jeet RamINC
6KarnaprayagDr. Anusuya Prasad MaikhuriINC
7KedarnathShaila Rani RawatINC
8RudraprayagDr. Harak Singh RawatINC
9Ghansali Bhim Lal AryaBJP
10DevprayagMantri Prasad NaithaniIndependent
11NarendranagarSubodh UniyalINC
12PratapnagarVikram Singh NegiINC
13TehriDinesh DhanaiIndependent
14DhanaultiMahavir SinghBJP
15Chakrata Pritam SinghINC
16VikasnagarNav PrabhatINC
17SahaspurSahdev Singh PundirBJP
18DharampurDinesh AgrawalINC
19RaipurUmesh Sharma 'Kau'INC
20Rajpur Road Raj KumarINC
21Dehradun CanttHarbans KapoorBJP
22MussoorieGanesh JoshiBJP
23DoiwalaDr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'#BJP
24RishikeshPremchand AggarwalBJP
25HaridwarMadan KaushikBJP
26BHEL RanipurAdesh ChauhanBJP
27Jwalapur Chandra ShekharBJP
28Bhagwanpur Surendra Rakesh†BSP
29Jhabrera Hari DasBSP
30Piran KaliyarFurqan AhmadINC
31RoorkeePradip BatraINC
32KhanpurPranav Singh 'Champion'INC
33ManglaurSarwat Karim AnsariBSP
34LaksarSanjay GuptaBJP
35Haridwar RuralYatishwaranandBJP
36YamkeshwarVijaya BarthwalBJP
37Pauri Sundar Lal MandrawalINC
38SrinagarGanesh Prasad GodiyalINC
39ChaubattakhalTirath Singh RawatBJP
40LansdowneDilip Singh RawatBJP
41KotdwarSurendra Singh NegiINC
42DharchulaHarish Singh Dhami‡INC
43DidihatBishan Singh ChuphalBJP
44PithoragarhMayukh Singh MaharINC
45Gangolihat Narayan Ram AryaINC
46KapkotLalit PharswanINC
47Bageshwar Chandan Ram DasBJP
48DwarahatMadan Singh BishtINC
49SaltSurendra Singh JeenaBJP
50RanikhetAjay BhattBJP
51Someshwar Ajay Tamta#BJP
52AlmoraManoj TiwariINC
53JageshwarGovind Singh KunjwalINC
54LohaghatPuran Singh PhartyalBJP
55ChampawatHemesh KharkwalINC
56LalkuanHarish Chandra DurgapalIndependent
57BhimtalDan Singh BhandariBJP
58Nainital Sarita AryaINC
59HaldwaniDr. Indira HridayeshINC
60KaladhungiBanshidhar BhagatBJP
61RamnagarAmrita RawatINC
62JaspurDr. Shailendra Mohan SinghalINC
63KashipurHarbhajan Singh CheemaBJP
64Bajpur Yashpal AryaINC
65GadarpurArvind PandeyBJP
66RudrapurRajkumar ThukralBJP
67KichhaRajesh ShuklaBJP
68SitarganjKiran Mandal‡BJP
69Nanakmatta Dr. Prem Singh RanaBJP
70KhatimaPushkar Singh DhamiBJP
71Anglo-IndianRussell Valentine GardnerNominated

By-election

S. No.ConstituencyElected MemberParty affiliation
23DoiwalaHira Singh BishtINC
28Bhagwanpur Mamta RakeshINC
42DharchulaHarish RawatINC
51Someshwar Rekha AryaINC
68SitarganjVijay BahugunaINC