Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
The Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, also known as the Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha, is a unicameral governing and law making body of Uttarakhand, one of the 28 States in India, and is seated at Dehradun, the interim capital of Uttarakhand, with 70 Members of the Legislative Assembly.
Following the Bharatiya Janta Party's historic win in 2017 election, the current Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and Leader of the House is Trivendra Singh Rawat. The Speaker of the Assembly is Premchand Aggarwal. Baby Rani Maurya is the current Governor of Uttarakhand.
Between 2002 and 2020, Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly had 71 seats, including one reserved seat for the member of Anglo-Indian community that was abolished on 25 January 2020 by the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019, reducing the strength of Assembly from 71 to 70 seats.
Assembly election results
List of Assemblies
The following is the list of all the Uttarakhand Legislative AssembliesColour key for parties |
2016 Assembly suspension
In March 2016, capping a nine-day high-voltage political drama, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union Government brought Uttarakhand under President's rule citing a constitutional breakdown in the wake of a rebellion in then state-ruling Indian National Congress, which slammed the decision calling it a "murder of democracy" and a "black day".President Pranab Mukherjee signed the proclamation under Article 356 of the Constitution of India dismissing the INC-ruled State Government, the Chief Minister Harish Rawat and placing the Assembly under suspended animation on the recommendation of the Union Cabinet.
The Union Government was of the view that continuance of the Rawat government was "immoral and unconstitutional" after 18 March 2016, when the Uttarakhand Assembly Speaker declared the appropriation bill "passed" in controversial circumstances without allowing a division pressed for by 35 MLAs, including 9 rebel Congress legislators.
The Union Cabinet had held an emergency meeting on Saturday night presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had cut short a visit to Assam to return to the New Delhi for the purpose.
The Cabinet considered several reports received from Governor Krishan Kant Paul, who had described the political situation as volatile and expressed apprehensions over possible pandemonium during the scheduled trial of strength in the Assembly on Monday.
The purported CD of the sting operation conducted against the Chief Minister that was in public domain on Saturday was understood to have been factored into the decision of the Cabinet which found it as a case of horse trading.
Additionally Two Uttarakhand MLAs, one each from Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party were on 9 June suspended for cross-voting during the floor test that was held on 10 May. Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal suspended BJP MLA Bhim Lal Arya and INC MLA Rekha Arya.
Current Assembly
This is 4th Vidhan Sabha of the state. The last state elections were held in February 2017, when the Bharatiya Janata Party won an overwhelming majority of 57 seats in the 70-seat electoral legislature. The Indian National Congress has secured only 11 seats in 4th assembly. The Independents have bagged 2 seats.Current party position in the Assembly
Current party position in the Assembly as of 28 November 2019:Rank | Party | Abbr. | Seats | Leader in the House |
1 | Bharatiya Janata Party | BJP | 56 | Trivendra Singh Rawat |
2 | Indian National Congress | INC | 11 | Indira Hridayesh |
3 | Independent | Ind. | 03 | N/A |
Total | 70 |
List of current Assembly members
S. No. | Constituency | Elected Member | Party affiliation |
1 | Purola | Raj Kumar | INC |
2 | Yamunotri | Kedar Singh Rawat | BJP |
3 | Gangotri | Gopal Singh Rawat | BJP |
4 | Badrinath | Mahendra Bhatt | BJP |
5 | Tharali | Munni Devi Shah | BJP |
6 | Karnaprayag | Surendra Singh Negi | BJP |
7 | Kedarnath | Manoj Rawat | INC |
8 | Rudraprayag | Bharat Singh Rawat | BJP |
9 | Ghansali | Shakti Lal Shah | BJP |
10 | Devprayag | Vinod Kandari | BJP |
11 | Narendranagar | Subodh Uniyal | BJP |
12 | Pratapnagar | Vijay Singh Panwar | BJP |
13 | Tehri | Dhan Singh Negi | BJP |
14 | Dhanaulti | Pritam Singh Panwar | Independent |
15 | Chakrata | Pritam Singh | INC |
16 | Vikasnagar | Munna Singh Chauhan | BJP |
17 | Sahaspur | Sahdev Singh Pundir | BJP |
18 | Dharampur | Vinod Chamoli | BJP |
19 | Raipur | Umesh Sharma 'Kau' | BJP |
20 | Rajpur Road | Khajan Das | BJP |
21 | Dehradun Cantt | Harbans Kapoor | BJP |
22 | Mussoorie | Ganesh Joshi | BJP |
23 | Doiwala | Trivendra Singh Rawat | BJP |
24 | Rishikesh | Premchand Aggarwal | BJP |
25 | Haridwar | Madan Kaushik | BJP |
26 | BHEL Ranipur | Adesh Chauhan | BJP |
27 | Jwalapur | Suresh Rathod | BJP |
28 | Bhagwanpur | Mamta Rakesh | INC |
29 | Jhabrera | Deshraj Karnwal | BJP |
30 | Piran Kaliyar | Furqan Ahmad | INC |
31 | Roorkee | Pradip Batra | BJP |
32 | Khanpur | Pranav Singh 'Champion' | Independent |
33 | Manglaur | Muhammad Nizamuddin | INC |
34 | Laksar | Sanjay Gupta | BJP |
35 | Haridwar Rural | Yatishwaranand | BJP |
36 | Yamkeshwar | Ritu Khanduri Bhushan | BJP |
37 | Pauri | Mukesh Singh Koli | BJP |
38 | Srinagar | Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat | BJP |
39 | Chaubattakhal | Satpal Maharaj | BJP |
40 | Lansdowne | Dilip Singh Rawat | BJP |
41 | Kotdwar | Dr. Harak Singh Rawat | BJP |
42 | Dharchula | Harish Singh Dhami | INC |
43 | Didihat | Bishan Singh Chuphal | BJP |
44 | Pithoragarh | Chandra Pant | BJP |
45 | Gangolihat | Mina Gangola | BJP |
46 | Kapkot | Balwant Singh Bhauryal | BJP |
47 | Bageshwar | Chandan Ram Das | BJP |
48 | Dwarahat | Mahesh Singh Negi | BJP |
49 | Salt | Surendra Singh Jeena | BJP |
50 | Ranikhet | Karan Singh Mahra | INC |
51 | Someshwar | Rekha Arya | BJP |
52 | Almora | Raghunath Singh Chauhan | BJP |
53 | Jageshwar | Govind Singh Kunjwal | INC |
54 | Lohaghat | Puran Singh Phartyal | BJP |
55 | Champawat | Kailash Chandra Gahtori | BJP |
56 | Lalkuan | Navin Chandra Dumka | BJP |
57 | Bhimtal | Ram Singh Kaira | Independent |
58 | Nainital | Sanjiv Arya | BJP |
59 | Haldwani | Dr. Indira Hridayesh | INC |
60 | Kaladhungi | Banshidhar Bhagat | BJP |
61 | Ramnagar | Diwan Singh Bisht | BJP |
62 | Jaspur | Adesh Singh Chauhan | INC |
63 | Kashipur | Harbhajan Singh Cheema | BJP |
64 | Bajpur | Yashpal Arya | BJP |
65 | Gadarpur | Arvind Pandey | BJP |
66 | Rudrapur | Rajkumar Thukral | BJP |
67 | Kichha | Rajesh Shukla | BJP |
68 | Sitarganj | Saurabh Bahuguna | BJP |
69 | Nanakmatta | Dr. Prem Singh Rana | BJP |
70 | Khatima | Pushkar Singh Dhami | BJP |