Uttarakhand Election 2022 Results Explained: BJP 47, Congress 19

Uttarakhand voted on 14 February 2022 and the results came on 10 March. The BJP won 47 of 70 seats and became the first party to be re-elected to government in the state, whose voters had swapped parties at every election since 2002. This explainer uses the IndiaVotes constituency table, which we checked against the party totals and the winner-minus-runner-up margin for every seat, and sets out the numbers that matter for 2027: vote shares, the razor-thin seats, the reserved seats and the 2002 to 2022 history.

Among the BJP’s 47 wins the runner-up was Congress in 43 seats, the UKD in 2 (Deoprayag, Tehri) and an independent in 2. Among Congress’s 19 wins the runner-up was the BJP in 18 and the BSP in 1. IndiaVotes puts turnout at 65.4%, while Wikipedia’s district table gives 65.37%.

Almora was won by Congress’s Manoj Tewari by 127 votes over the BJP, and Manglaur by the BSP’s Sarwat Karim Ansari by 598 over Congress. Two of the five closest seats went to Congress, one to the BSP and two to the BJP.

The BJP won 9 of the 13 Scheduled Caste seats (Bageshwar, Gangolihat, Ghansali, Nainital, Pauri, Purola, Rajpur Road, Someshwar, Tharali) and Congress won the other 4 and both Scheduled Tribe seats.

The state swung between BJP and Congress at each election from 2002 to 2017. The 2012 result was a near tie, with Congress ahead of the BJP by one seat.