The 2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election were the third Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) 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 71-seat legislature and formed the government with the help of Bahujan Samaj Party, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P) 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 71. 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 (P) and the three Independents would be supporting the government. The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party Government lost as they had only 31 seats out of 71 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 Rank Party Abbr. Seats Leader in the House1Indian National CongressINC37Vijay Bahuguna (2012–2014)Harish Rawat (2014–2017)2Bahujan Samaj PartyBSP02Hari Das3Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P)UKD(P)01Pritam Singh Panwar4IndependentInd.03N/A5Bharatiya Janata PartyBJP28Ajay Bhatt Total 71
Key post holders in the Assembly Speaker : Govind Singh Kunjwal Deputy Speaker : Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri Leader of the House: Vijay Bahuguna (2012–2014)Harish Rawat (2014–2017) Leader of the Opposition : Ajay Bhatt Chief Secretary : Devi Prasad Gairola
Members of the Third Uttarakhand Assembly
S. No.ConstituencyElected MemberParty affiliation1Purola (SC)Mal ChandBJP2YamunotriPritam Singh PanwarUKD(P)3GangotriVijaypal Singh SajwanINC4BadrinathRajendra Singh BhandariINC 5Tharali (SC)Prof. Jeet RamINC6KarnaprayagDr. Anusuya Prasad MaikhuriINC7KedarnathShaila Rani RawatINC8RudraprayagDr. Harak Singh RawatINC9Ghansali (SC)Bhim Lal AryaBJP 10DevprayagMantri Prasad NaithaniIndependent 11NarendranagarSubodh UniyalINC 12PratapnagarVikram Singh NegiINC 13TehriDinesh DhanaiIndependent14DhanaultiMahavir Singh RangarhBJP 15Chakrata (ST)Pritam SinghINC 16VikasnagarNav PrabhatINC17SahaspurSahdev Singh PundirBJP 18DharampurDinesh AgrawalINC 19RaipurUmesh Sharma 'Kau'INC20Rajpur Road (SC)RajkumarINC 21Dehradun CantonmentHarbans KapoorBJP 22MussoorieGanesh JoshiBJP 23DoiwalaDr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'#BJP24RishikeshPremchand AggarwalBJP25HaridwarMadan KaushikBJP26BHEL RanipurAdesh ChauhanBJP27Jwalapur (SC)Chandra ShekharBJP28Bhagwanpur (SC)Surendra Rakesh†BSP29Jhabrera (SC)Hari DasBSP 30Piran KaliyarFurqan AhmadINC 31RoorkeePradip BatraINC32KhanpurPranav Singh 'Champion'INC33ManglaurSarwat Karim AnsariBSP34LaksarSanjay GuptaBJP 35Haridwar RuralYatishwaranandBJP 36YamkeshwarVijaya BarthwalBJP 37Pauri (SC)Sundar Lal MandrawalINC 38SrinagarGanesh GodiyalINC 39ChaubattakhalTirath Singh RawatBJP40LansdowneDilip Singh RawatBJP 41KotdwarSurendra Singh NegiINC 42DharchulaHarish Singh Dhami‡INC 43DidihatBishan Singh ChuphalBJP 44Pithoragarh Mayukh Singh MaharINC 45Gangolihat (SC)Narayan Ram AryaINC46KapkotLalit PharswanINC 47Bageshwar (SC)Chandan Ram DasBJP48DwarahatMadan Singh BishtINC49SaltSurendra Singh JeenaBJP50RanikhetAjay BhattBJP51Someshwar (SC)Ajay Tamta#BJP52AlmoraManoj TiwariINC53JageshwarGovind Singh KunjwalINC54LohaghatPuran Singh PhartyalBJP55ChampawatHemesh KharkwalINC56LalkuanHarish Chandra DurgapalIndependent57BhimtalDan Singh BhandariBJP58Nainital (SC)Sarita AryaINC 59HaldwaniDr. Indira HridayeshINC60KaladhungiBanshidhar BhagatBJP61RamnagarAmrita RawatINC62JaspurDr. Shailendra Mohan SinghalINC 63KashipurHarbhajan Singh CheemaBJP64Bajpur (SC)Yashpal AryaINC65GadarpurArvind PandeyBJP66RudrapurRajkumar ThukralBJP67KichhaRajesh ShuklaBJP68SitarganjKiran Mandal‡BJP69Nanakmatta (ST)Dr. Prem Singh RanaBJP70KhatimaPushkar Singh DhamiBJP71Anglo-IndianRussell Valentine GardnerINC
By-elections
S. No.ConstituencyElected MemberParty affiliation23DoiwalaHira Singh BishtINC28Bhagwanpur (SC)Mamta RakeshINC42DharchulaHarish RawatINC 51Someshwar (SC)Rekha AryaINC68SitarganjVijay BahugunaINC
See also 2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election Vijay Bahuguna ministry Harish Rawat ministry Progressive Democratic Front (Uttarakhand) Politics of Uttarakhand
Notes † – Died in office ‡ – Resigned from office # – Elected to the 16th Lok Sabha
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