Uttarakhand Election Results 2022: Counting of votes for 70 assembly seats of Uttarakhand is going on from 8 am on Thursday. In the initial trends, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has achieved the majority figure of 36. At the same time, Harish Rawat, who claimed to form the Congress government in Uttarakhand, has not been able to save himself. Congress’s chief ministerial candidate Harish Rawat has been defeated by BJP’s Mohan Kumar Bisht from Lalkuan by around 14,000 votes. In 2017 also Rawat lost the elections in both the seats.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading the opposition Congress in the early trends of the counting of votes for the assembly elections in Uttarakhand on Thursday. The saffron party’s candidates are leading in 47 seats.
Congress is leading in 19 seats, BSP on one, Uttarakhand Jan Ekta Party and independent candidates in one seat each, according to the data of all 70 seats available on the Election Commission’s website at 1.40 pm.
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Yashpal Arya, who joined Congress before leaving BJP, is trailing by 18587 votes from Bajpur candidate Rajesh Kumar. However, leader of opposition in the outgoing state assembly and still invincible from Chakrata, Pritam Singh of Congress is ahead of his nearest candidate Ramsharan Nautiyal of BJP by 1805 votes.
Voting was held in Uttarakhand on February 14 in which more than 65 per cent people exercised their franchise. In Uttarakhand, the political fate of a total of 632 candidates, including candidates from both the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress, besides the candidates of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal, Aam Aadmi Party, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party will be decided.
It will be interesting to see whether the BJP, which got a historic mandate by winning 57 out of 70 seats in the last assembly elections, achieves its 60-cross target this time or the Congress returns to power riding on the anti-incumbency wave and it will continue till this evening. will be final.