Voting for Uttarakhand assembly elections 2022 was conducted in a single phase on February 14. The state assembly election recorded 65.37% polling, with 67.20% female voters’ participation and 62.6% male voters. The overall voter turnout was 0.19% less than the assembly elections held in 2017 in which the Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as a winner.
Uttarakhand voters have never given any political party a consecutive chance to govern the state since the state’s formation in 2000. In 2017, BJP bagged 57 seats in the 70-member assembly and the Congress ended up with a paltry 11, with then chief minister Harish Rawat losing from both seats he contested.
Both BJP and Congress have shied away from naming the chief ministerial candidate for the Chhattisgarh Assembly election. Pushkar Singh Dhami contested from his home constituency Khatima, while Harish Rawat contested from Lalkuwa Assembly seat. Congress will be counting on the voters to veer towards it after witnessing the state’s tumultuous journey under BJP’s rule.
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