Uttarakhand Assembly Election 2022

No. All 70 constituencies had contested elections. The Election Commission of India recorded at least five candidates in every constituency, with 632 candidates contesting statewide.

The 2022 election broke Uttarakhand's longstanding pattern of alternating governments. The BJP won 47 seats and returned to power for a second consecutive term, marking the first time the incumbent party achieved this since the state was formed in 2000.

No. Pushkar Singh Dhami lost the Khatima constituency to Congress candidate Bhuwan Chandra Kapri, even though the BJP won the overall election. Dhami was subsequently retained as Chief Minister and won the Champawat Assembly by-election on 3 June 2022, allowing him to return to the Assembly.

Former Chief Minister Harish Rawat lost from the Lalkuan constituency to BJP candidate Mohan Singh Bisht. His defeat was notable because Rawat was one of the Congress party's most prominent leaders in the state.

Eight women were elected to the 70-member Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. A total of 63 women contested the election out of 632 candidates, according to the Election Commission's statistics.

Women's voter turnout was higher. Excluding postal ballots, turnout was 67.16% among women and 61.27% among men. The difference was 5.89 percentage points in favour of women voters. Overall state turnout, including postal votes, was 65.41%.

A total of 46,818 votes were recorded for NOTA, or "None of the Above," representing approximately 0.87% of the votes recorded. NOTA allows voters to indicate that they do not support any of the listed candidates.

A total of 702 candidates contested the 70 Assembly constituencies, averaging approximately nine candidates per seat. The number of contestants ranged from five in the least-contested constituencies to 19 in the constituency with the largest field of candidates.