Dharchula Assembly constituency
| Bhagwanpur | |
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| Constituency No. 42 for the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttarakhand |
| District | Pithoragarh |
| Total electors | 88,090 (2019) |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 5th Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Indian National Congress |
| Elected year | 2002 |
Dharchula Legislative Assembly constituency is one of the seventy electoral Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand state in India. It includes Dharchula area of Pithoragarh District.
Dharchula Legislative Assembly constituency is a part of Almora (Lok Sabha constituency).
Members of Legislative Assembly
| Election | Name | Party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Gagan Singh Rajwar | Independent | ||||
| 2007 | ||||||
| Major boundary changes | ||||||
| 2012 | Harish Singh Dhami | Indian National Congress | ||||
| 2014 (By Elect) | Harish Rawat | |||||
| 2017 | Harish Singh Dhami | |||||
| 2022 | ||||||
Election results
Assembly Election 2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Harish Singh Dhami | 27,007 | 47.95% |
 0.67
|
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| BJP | Dhan Singh Dhami (Dhan Da) | 25,889 | 45.96% |
4.38
|
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| Independent | Jeevan Singh Thakur | 825 | 1.46% | New | |
| AAP | Narayan Ram | 643 | 1.14% | New | |
| Independent | Kailash Singh Pangtey | 575 | 1.02% | New | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 406 | 0.72% |
 0.20
|
|
| UKD | Ramesh Singh | 406 | 0.72% |
0.91
|
|
| BSP | Govind Ram | 394 | 0.70% |
0.12
|
|
| Margin of victory | 1,118 | 1.98% |
3.71
|
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| Turnout | 56,325 | 62.03% |
0.60
|
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| Registered electors | 90,798 |
5.04
|
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| INC hold | Swing |
0.67
|
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Assembly Election 2017
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Harish Singh Dhami | 25,597 | 47.28% |
27.35
|
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| BJP | Virendra Singh Pal | 22,512 | 41.58% |
16.21
|
|
| Independent | Durga Prashad | 2,717 | 5.02% | New | |
| UKD | Lal Singh | 883 | 1.63% | New | |
| Independent | Devindra Singh | 631 | 1.17% | New | |
| Independent | Virendra Singh | 540 | 1.00% | New | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 500 | 0.92% | New | |
| BSP | Jitendra Kumar | 445 | 0.82% | New | |
| Margin of victory | 3,085 | 5.70% |
43.57
|
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| Turnout | 54,140 | 62.63% |
11.29
|
||
| Registered electors | 86,441 |
6.10
|
|||
| INC hold | Swing |
27.35
|
|||
Assembly By-election 2014
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Harish Chandra Singh Rawat | 31,214 | 74.63% |
41.68
|
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| BJP | Bishnu Dutt Joshi | 10,610 | 25.37% |
3.52
|
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| NOTA | None of the above | 1,028 | 2.46% | New | |
| Margin of victory | 20,604 | 49.26% |
38.15
|
||
| Turnout | 41,824 | 52.61% |
14.30
|
||
| Registered electors | 81,469 |
11.98
|
|||
| INC hold | Swing | ||||
Assembly Election 2012
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Harish Singh Dhami | 15,739 | 32.96% |
21.36
|
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| BJP | Khushal Singh | 10,433 | 21.85% |
1.20
|
|
| UKD | Kashi Singh Airy | 6,685 | 14.00% |
3.95
|
|
| BSP | Rajendara Singh Kutiyal | 4,389 | 9.19% |
2.23
|
|
| Independent | Gagan Singh Rajwar | 2,990 | 6.26% | New | |
| Uttarakhand Raksha Morcha | Virendra Singh Pal | 2,347 | 4.91% | New | |
| CPI(ML)L | Jagat Martolia | 1,864 | 3.90% |
2.50
|
|
| Independent | Shankar Lal | 1,131 | 2.37% | New | |
| Independent | Laxmi Datt Pant | 627 | 1.31% | New | |
| Independent | Jewan Singh Danu | 479 | 1.00% | New | |
| Independent | Govind Singh | 374 | 0.78% | New | |
| Margin of victory | 5,306 | 11.11% |
4.21
|
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| Turnout | 47,757 | 65.64% |
2.31
|
||
| Registered electors | 72,755 |
32.84
|
|||
| INC gain from Independent | Swing |
5.41
|
|||
Assembly Election 2007
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Gagan Singh | 13,308 | 38.37% | New | |
| BJP | Kundan Singh | 7,995 | 23.05% |
16.44
|
|
| INC | Shakuntala Devi | 4,022 | 11.60% |
4.24
|
|
| UKD | Lal Singh | 3,485 | 10.05% |
0.38
|
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| BSP | Rajendara Singh Kutiyal | 2,415 | 6.96% |
5.44
|
|
| Independent | Virendra Singh | 1,538 | 4.43% | New | |
| AIFB | Hoshiyar Singh | 935 | 2.70% | New | |
| Shivsena | Chandra Singh | 502 | 1.45% | New | |
| CPI(ML)L | Jagat Singh (Jagat Martoliya) | 486 | 1.40% | New | |
| Margin of victory | 5,313 | 15.32% |
11.37
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| Turnout | 34,686 | 63.38% |
8.60
|
||
| Registered electors | 54,767 |
1.67
|
|||
| Independent hold | Swing |
4.16
|
|||
Assembly Election 2002
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Gagan Singh | 12,537 | 42.52% | New | |
| INC | Pradyuman Singh | 4,670 | 15.84% | New | |
| UKD | Rajendra Singh Raipa | 2,849 | 9.66% | New | |
| Independent | Hoshiyar Singh | 2,526 | 8.57% | New | |
| BJP | Goverdhan Singh | 1,950 | 6.61% | New | |
| Independent | Puran Singh Chalal | 1,208 | 4.10% | New | |
| Independent | Harish Chandra Singh Rawat | 1,024 | 3.47% | New | |
| Uttarakhand Janwadi Party | Mahendra Singh Budiyal | 829 | 2.81% | New | |
| Independent | Jagdish Singh | 776 | 2.63% | New | |
| BSP | Dham Singh Tolia | 449 | 1.52% | New | |
| NCP | Ganga Singh Pangatey | 399 | 1.35% | New | |
| Margin of victory | 7,867 | 26.68% | |||
| Turnout | 29,483 | 54.80% | |||
| Registered electors | 53,869 | ||||
| Independent win (new seat) | |||||