Tehri Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency

Tehri Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency is one of the five Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttarakhand.[1] This constituency came into existence in 1957, following the delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies. It comprises the districts of Dehradun (part), Tehri Garhwal (part) and Uttarakashi.

Tehri Garhwal
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttarakhand
Assembly constituencies14: Purola, Gangotri, Yamunotri, Ghansali, Pratapnagar, Tehri, Dhanaulti, Chakrata, Vikasnagar, Sahaspur, Raipur, Rajpur Road, Dehradun Cantonment and Mussoorie
Established1957
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2019
Preceded byVijay Bahuguna

Assembly segments edit

After the formation of Uttarakhand

At present, Tehri Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following fourteen Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:[1]

# Name District Member Party
1 Purola (SC) Uttarkashi Durgeshwar Lal BJP
2 Yamunotri Sanjay Dobhal IND
3 Gangotri Suresh Singh Chouhan BJP
9 Ghansali (SC) Tehri Garhwal Shakti Lal Shah BJP
12 Pratapnagar Vikram Singh Negi INC
13 Tehri Kishore Upadhyaya BJP
14 Dhanaulti Pritam Singh Panwar BJP
15 Chakrata (ST) Dehradun Pritam Singh INC
16 Vikasnagar Munna Singh Chauhan BJP
17 Sahaspur Sahdev Singh Pundir BJP
19 Raipur Umesh Sharma 'Kau' BJP
20 Rajpur Road (SC) Khajan Das BJP
21 Dehradun Cantt Savita Kapoor BJP
22 Mussoorie Ganesh Joshi BJP

Before the formation of Uttarakhand

Tehri Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency comprised the following five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituency segments of Uttar Pradesh:

District Assembly constituency segments
Name SC/ST
Dehradun
Chakrata ST
Mussoorie
Tehri Garhwal
Devprayag
Tehri
Uttarkashi Uttarkashi SC

Members of Parliament edit

Year Member Party
1952 Kamalendumati Shah Independent politician
1957 Manabendra Shah Indian National Congress
1962
1967
1971 Paripoornanand Painuli Indian National Congress
1977 Trepan Singh Negi Janata Party
1980 Indian National Congress
1984 Brahm Dutt
1989
1991 Manabendra Shah Bharatiya Janata Party
1996
1998
1999
2004
2007^ Vijay Bahuguna Indian National Congress
2009
2012^ Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah Bharatiya Janata Party
2014
2019

^ by-poll

Election results edit

2024 edit

2024 Indian general election: Tehri Garhwal
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah
INC Jot Singh Gunsola
BSP Nemchand
IND Bobby Panwar
Majority
Turnout
gain from Swing

2019 edit

2019 Indian general elections: Tehri Garhwal[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah 565,333 64.53  7.03
INC Pritam Singh 2,64,747 30.22  2.5
Independent Gopal Mani 10,686 1.22 New
CPI(M) Rajendra Purohit 6,626 0.76 New
Independent Sardar Khan 5,457 0.62 New
NOTA None of the Above 6,276 0.72  0.67
Margin of victory 3,00,586 24.31  0.37
Turnout 8,79,183 58.87  1.47
BJP hold Swing

2014 edit

2014 Indian general elections: Tehri Garhwal[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah 446,733 57.50  9.39
INC Saket Bahuguna 2,54,230 32.72  10.95
NOTA None of the Above 10,762 1.39 N/A
Margin of victory 1,92,503 24.68  20.24
Turnout 7,76,214 57.39  14.73
BJP hold Swing  9.39

2012 by-election edit

Bye-election, 2012: Tehri Garhwal
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah 245,835 48.11  12.19
INC Saket Bahuguna 2,23,141 43.67  1.3
URM Japinder Singh Uttarakhandi 7,466 1.46 New
UKD (P) Trivendra Singh Panwar 6,939 1.36 New
UKD (D) Yogi Rakesh Nath 4,100 0.80 New
Majority 22,694 4.44  4.62
Turnout 5,11,499 42.70  7.68
BJP gain from INC Swing

2009 edit

2009 Indian general elections: Tehri Garhwal[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Vijay Bahuguna 263,083 44.97
BJP Jaspal Rana 2,10,144 35.92
Majority 52,939 9.06
Turnout 5,84,296 50.38
INC hold Swing

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "CEO Uttaranchal - Assembly and Parliamentary constituencies". gov.ua.nic.in. Archived from the original on 3 December 2008. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  2. ^ "General Election 2019". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  3. ^ "General Election 2014". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  4. ^ "General Election 2009". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 October 2021.

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