Legislative Assembly elections were held in Uttarakhand on 14 February 2022 to elect 70 members of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 10 March 2022. It was the first time an incumbent government got re-elected after the creation of Uttarakhand.

The Bharatiya Janata Party formed the government for a second consecutive term with 47 seats, despite losing 10 seats. The Indian National Congress won 19 seats and served as the official opposition.

Background The tenure of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 23 March 2022. The previous assembly elections were held in February 2017. After the election, Bharatiya Janata Party formed the state government, with Trivendra Singh Rawat becoming Chief Minister.

Political developments Amidst the internal turmoil in the BJP Uttarakhand unit and the mounting pressure of BJP MLAs against himself, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned on 9 March 2021. Tirath Singh Rawat was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of the state on 10 March 2021.

On 2 July 2021, Tirath Singh Rawat resigned from the Chief Minister's post to avoid constitutional crisis in the state. On 3 July 2021, Pushkar Singh Dhami was sworn in as the 10th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, assuming office on 4 July 2021.

In January 2021, Arvind Kejriwal announced that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would be contesting in six state elections in 2022 including Uttarakhand. On 17 August 2021, AAP declared Ajay Kothiyal as their Chief Ministerial candidate for the assembly election.

Election schedule The election schedule was announced by the Election Commission of India on 8 January 2022.

S.No. EventDateDay1.Date for Nominations21 January 2022Friday2.Last Date for filing Nominations28 January 2022Friday3.Date for scrutiny of nominations29 January 2022Saturday4.Last date for withdrawal of candidatures31 January 2022Monday5.Date of poll14 February 2022Monday6.Date of counting10 March 2022Thursday

Parties and alliances National Democratic Alliance (India)

+ No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats contested Male Candidates Female Candidates1. Bharatiya Janata Party Pushkar Singh Dhami 70 62 8

United Progressive Alliance

+ No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats contested Male Candidates Female Candidates1. Indian National Congress Harish Rawat 70 65 5

Aam Aadmi Party

+ No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats contested Male Candidates Female Candidates1. Aam Aadmi Party Ajay Kothiyal 70 62 8

Left Front

+ No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats contested Male candidates- Female candidates1. Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rajendra Singh Negi 4 4 02. Communist Party of India Samar Bhandari 4 4 03. Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Raja Bahuguna 2 2 0

Others + No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats contested Male Candidates Female Candidates1. Bahujan Samaj Party Naresh Gautam 54 N/A N/A2. Uttarakhand Kranti Dal Diwakar Bhatt 44 N/A N/A3. Samajwadi Party Satyanarayan Sachan 55 N/A N/A4. All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Nayyar Kazmi 4 4 0

Candidates

ConstituencyBJPINC#NamePartyCandidatePartyCandidate Uttarkashi District1Purola (SC)BJPDurgeshwar LalINCMal Chand2Yamunotri BJPKedar Singh RawatINCDeepak Bijalwan3GangotriBJPSuresh Singh ChauhanINCVijaypal Singh Sajwan Chamoli District4BadrinathBJPMahendra BhattINCRajendra Singh Bhandari5Tharali (SC)BJPBhupal Ram TamtaINCProf. Jeet Ram6KarnaprayagBJPAnil NautiyalINCMukesh Negi Rudraprayag District7Kedarnath BJPShaila Rani RawatINCManoj Rawat8Rudraprayag BJPBharat Singh ChaudharyINCPradeep Thapliyal Tehri Garhwal District9Ghansali (SC)BJPShakti Lal ShahINCDhani Lal Shah10Devprayag BJPVinod KandariINCMantri Prasad Naithani11Narendranagar BJPSubodh UniyalINCOm Gopal Rawat12PratapnagarBJPVijay Singh PanwarINCVikram Singh Negi13Tehri BJPKishore UpadhyayaINCDhan Singh Negi14DhanaultiBJPPritam Singh PanwarINCJot Singh Bisht Dehradun District15Chakrata (ST)BJPRam Sharan NautiyalINCPritam Singh16Vikasnagar BJPMunna Singh ChauhanINCNav Prabhat17Sahaspur BJPSahdev Singh PundirINCAryendra Sharma18Dharampur BJPVinod ChamoliINCDinesh Agrawal19Raipur BJPUmesh Sharma 'Kau'INCHira Singh Bisht20Rajpur Road (SC)BJPKhajan DassINCRajkumar21Dehradun Cantonment BJPSavita KapoorINCSuryakant Dhasmana22MussoorieBJPGanesh JoshiINCGodavari Thapli23Doiwala BJPBrij Bhushan GairolaINCGaurav Chaudhary 'Ginni'24RishikeshBJPPremchand AggarwalINCJayendra Ramola Haridwar District25Haridwar BJPMadan KaushikINCSatpal Brahmachari26BHEL Ranipur BJPAdesh ChauhanINCRajvir Singh Chauhan27Jwalapur (SC)BJPSuresh RathodINCRavi Bahadur28Bhagwanpur (SC)BJPSatya PalINCMamta Rakesh29Jhabrera (SC)BJPRajpal SinghINCVirendra Kumar30Piran Kaliyar BJPMunish SainiINCFurqan Ahmad31RoorkeeBJPPradip BatraINCYashpal Rana32Khanpur BJPDevyani SinghINCSubhash Chaudhary33Manglaur BJPDinesh PanwarINCMuhammad Nizamuddin34Laksar BJPSanjay GuptaINCAntariksh Saini35Haridwar RuralBJPYatishwaranandINCAnupama Rawat Pauri Garhwal District36Yamkeshwar BJPRenu BishtINCShailendra Singh Rawat37Pauri (SC)BJPRaj Kumar PoriINCNawal Kishor38Srinagar BJPDr. Dhan Singh RawatINCGanesh Godiyal39Chaubattakhal BJPSatpal MaharajINCKesar Singh Negi40Lansdowne BJPDilip Singh RawatINCAnukriti Gusain41Kotdwar BJPRitu Khanduri BhushanINCSurendra Singh Negi Pithoragarh District42DharchulaBJPDhan Singh DhamiINCHarish Singh Dhami43Didihat BJPBishan Singh ChuphalINCPradeep Singh Pal44Pithoragarh BJPChandra PantINCMayukh Singh Mahar45Gangolihat (SC)BJPFakir Ram TamtaINCKhajan Chand 'Guddu' Bageshwar District46Kapkot BJPSuresh Singh GariyaINCLalit Pharswan47Bageshwar (SC)BJPChandan Ram DasINCRanjit Das Almora District48Dwarahat BJPAnil ShahiINCMadan Singh Bisht49Salt BJPMahesh Singh JeenaINCRanjit Singh Rawat50RanikhetBJPPramod NainwalINCKaran Mahra51Someshwar (SC)BJPRekha AryaINCRajendra Barakoti52AlmoraBJPKailash SharmaINCManoj Tiwari53JageshwarBJPMohan Singh MaharaINCGovind Singh Kunjwal Champawat District54Lohaghat BJPPuran Singh PhartyalINCKhushal Singh Adhikari55Champawat BJPKailash Chandra GahtoriINCHemesh Kharkwal Nainital District56LalkuanBJPDr. Mohan Singh BishtINCHarish Rawat57BhimtalBJPRam Singh KairaINCDan Singh Bhandari58Nainital (SC)BJPSarita AryaINCSanjiv Arya59Haldwani BJPDr. Jogendra Pal Singh RautelaINCSumit Hridayesh60KaladhungiBJPBanshidhar BhagatINCMahesh Sharma61Ramnagar BJPDiwan Singh BishtINCMahendra Singh Pal Udham Singh Nagar District62Jaspur BJPDr. Shailendra Mohan SinghalINCAdesh Singh Chauhan63KashipurBJPTrilok Singh CheemaINCNarendra Chand Singh64Bajpur (SC)BJPRajesh KumarINCYashpal Arya65Gadarpur BJPArvind PandeyINCPremanand Mahajan66Rudrapur BJPShiv AroraINCMeena Sharma67Kichha BJPRajesh ShuklaINCTilak Raj Behar68Sitarganj BJPSaurabh BahugunaINCNavtej Pal Singh69Nanakmatta (ST)BJPDr. Prem Singh RanaINCGopal Singh Rana70KhatimaBJPPushkar Singh DhamiINCBhuwan Chandra Kapri

Party manifestos AAP AAP asked the residents of Uttarakhand for suggestions for manifesto and received 71,249 replies. In addition to a main manifesto, the party will be releasing separate manifesto for each constituency. On 6 February, AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal announced his party's 10-point manifesto for Uttarakhand if the AAP wins the election and forms the government. End corruption 24x7 electricity, free electricity up to 300 units Employment ₹1000/month for women Education revolution, improvement of government schools. Healthcare revolution, improvement in health facilities and building Mohalla Clinics in every village. Revamp roads and build roads to every village Pilgrimage (Teerth Yatra) to the elderly Making Uttarakhand the spiritual capital for Hindus. Govt job for retired soldiers and amount of ₹1 crore paid ex-gratia to family of soldiers after death

BJP The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has issued the manifesto for the public. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has released the manifesto known as the "drishti patra" in a conference .

key points of the manifesto:- Help will be given to ex-servicemen to settle in the border areas. 45 new tourism spots will be developed. Rs 6000 from central and Rs 6000 from state government will be given under Kisan Samman Nidhi. 3 cylinders free of cost to poor houses in a year. Apart from this, Rs 2000 per month will be given to women of BPL family, Rs 1000 per month to poor children. 50000 government jobs will be given out of which, 24000 jobs will be given as soon as they return to power. The Chief Minister Trainee Scheme will be started for the unemployed. Under this, unemployed youth will be given Rs 3000 every month for a year. This will be in addition to the amount received from the Center. Trees will not be cut, they will be transplanted. The youth of Uttarakhand will be given training in tree plantation. Laborers and the poor will be provided with a pension of up to Rs 6,000 and an insurance cover of Rs 5 lakh. Jan Aushadhi Kendras will be increased from 190 to 400. Mobile hospitals will be developed in every area. Medical colleges will be developed in every district. Promise to give Rs 3000 every month to the women head of BPL families. party promised a stricter law on ‘love jihad’ and “necessary measures to stop the demographic changes in Uttarakhand” if voted back to power. “We aim to make the ‘love jihad’ law stricter with a provision of 10-years of rigorous imprisonment,” said Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, former Union minister and chairman of the manifesto committee. Annual payment of Rs 2,000 to farmers in addition to the amount they get under the Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme.The additional Rs 2,000 would be given to farmers under the Chief Minister Kisan Protsahan Yojana, as per the poll document. We will complete the Char Dham all-weather road project by the end of this year and launch seven ropeway projects, including one in Kedarnath and another in Hemkund Sahib.~Nitin Gadkari Give an aid of Rs 40,000 to expectant mothers living in hilly areas and increase the pension amount of senior citizens from Rs 1,400 to Rs 3,600. We are also going to connect all the villages in Uttarakhand with 4G/5G mobile network and high-speed broadband internet. To improve transport services, we will also procure 1,000 electric buses,” said chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami. To ex-servicemen voters, the BJP has proposed to start a credit guarantee fund trust in the name of late CDS General Bipin Rawat. The beneficiaries will get a 50% guarantee cover for credit of up to Rs 5 lakh. BJP manifesto promises the setting up of medical colleges in each district and establishing a satellite centre of AIIMS Rishikesh in the Kumaon region. setting up a special fund of Rs 1,000 crore to establish 50 modern farm storage and cold storage facilities, giving a subsidy of Rs 10,000 to the elderly for pilgrimage, developing five hill stations on the lines of Mussoorie and Nainital, and setting up of an eco-tourism promotion board and an adventure tourism promotion board, among others.

INC INC released its manifesto on 2 February 2022 titled 'Uttarakhand Swabhiman Pratigya Patra'. Earlier on 24 January 2022 the party launched its campaign for Uttarakhand with the tagline “Char Dham, Char Kaam”. The four "kaam" (promises) made in the manifesto are

Capping the price of a gas cylinder for consumers at ₹500 Income support of ₹40,000 annually for the poorest five lakh families Doorstep Medical service under ‘Health facilities Har Gaon Har Dwar’ initiative Ensuring employment opportunities to 4 lakh youth Free travel for women in state transport Filling up 57,000 vacancies in various government departments within a year of voting to power Setting up of the state's “first sports university” Withdrawing cases against farmers filed during protests against the now-repealed farm laws Modernise sugar mills and improve the mechanism of payment to the sugarcane farmers Comprehensive educational framework with increased budget allocation