TheUttarakhand Legislative Assembly, also known as theUttarakhand Vidhan Sabha, is aunicameral governing and law making body ofUttarakhand, one of the 28 states of India. It is seated atDehradun, the winter capital, andGairsain, the summer capital of Uttarakhand. The total strength of the assembly is 70Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA).
Between 2002 and 2020, Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly had 71 seats, including onereserved seat for the member ofAnglo-Indian community that was abolished on 25 January 2020 by the104th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019, reducing the strength of Assembly from 71 to 70 seats.[1]
Starting March 2016, Indian state ofUttarakhand underwent a political crisis. TheIndian National CongressChief MinisterHarish Rawat replacedVijay Bahuguna as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand on 2014. After a political crisis in 2016, thePresident's rule was imposed ending his tenure as the Chief Minister when 9 rebel Congress MLAs withdrew their support to the Harish Rawat government. On 13 July 2016,Uttarakhand High Court lifted the President's rule and reinstated the Harish Rawat government. Next day theSupreme Court of India stayed the High Court's order and the President's rule was imposed again that lasted till May. In May, Harish Rawat government was once again reinstalled and the rebel MLAs were suspended by the Speaker on the grounds of defection.
| Party | Year | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Elections | 2017 Elections | 2012 Elections | 2007 Elections | 2002 Elections | |||
| Bahujan Samaj Party | 02 | – | 03 | 08 | 07 | ||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 47 | 57 | 31 | 35 | 19 | ||
| Indian National Congress | 19 | 11 | 32 | 21 | 36 | ||
| Nationalist Congress Party | – | – | – | – | 01 | ||
| Uttarakhand Kranti Dal[A] | – | – | 01 | 03 | 04 | ||
| Independent | 02 | 02 | 03 | 03 | 03 | ||
| Total Seats | 70 | 70 | 70 | 70 | 70 | ||
The following is the list of all the Uttarakhand Legislative Assemblies[2]
| Assembly | Election Year | Speaker | Chief Minister | Party | Opposition Leader | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interim Assembly | N/A | Prakash Pant | Nityanand Swami (2000–01) | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vacant | N/A | ||
| Bhagat Singh Koshyari (2001–02) | ||||||||
| 1st Assembly | 2002 | Yashpal Arya | Narayan Datt Tiwari | Indian National Congress | Bhagat Singh Koshyari (2002–03) | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| Matbar Singh Kandari (2003–07) | ||||||||
| 2nd Assembly | 2007 | Harbans Kapoor | Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri (2007–09) | Bharatiya Janata Party | Harak Singh Rawat | Indian National Congress | ||
| Ramesh Pokhriyal (2009–11) | ||||||||
| Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri (2011–12) | ||||||||
| 3rd Assembly | 2012 | Govind Singh Kunjwal | Vijay Bahuguna (2012–14) | Indian National Congress | Ajay Bhatt | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| Harish Rawat (2014–17) | ||||||||
| 4th Assembly | 2017 | Premchand Aggarwal | Trivendra Singh Rawat (2017–21) | Bharatiya Janata Party | Indira Hridayesh (2017–21) | Indian National Congress | ||
| Tirath Singh Rawat (2021) | ||||||||
| Pushkar Singh Dhami | Pritam Singh (2021–22) | |||||||
| 5th Assembly | 2022 | Ritu Khanduri Bhushan | Yashpal Arya | |||||