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

After the formation of Uttarakhand

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

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

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
YearMember 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

2019
2019 Indian general elections: Tehri Garhwal[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah 565,333 64.53 Increase7.03
INC Pritam Singh 2,64,747 30.22 Decrease2.5
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 Decrease0.67
Margin of victory 3,00,586 24.31 Decrease0.37
Turnout 8,79,183 58.87 Increase1.47
BJP hold Swing

2014
2014 Indian general elections: Tehri Garhwal[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah 446,733 57.50 Increase9.39
INC Saket Bahuguna 2,54,230 32.72 Decrease10.95
NOTA None of the Above 10,762 1.39 N/A
Margin of victory 1,92,503 24.68 Increase20.24
Turnout 7,76,214 57.39 Increase14.73
BJP hold Swing Increase9.39

2012 by-election
Bye-election, 2012: Tehri Garhwal
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah 245,835 48.11 Increase12.19
INC Saket Bahuguna 2,23,141 43.67 Decrease1.3
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 Decrease4.62
Turnout 5,11,499 42.70 Decrease7.68
BJP gain from INC Swing

2009
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

References
  1. "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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