Uttarakhand Election 2022: Chakrata Assembly Seat
Uttarakhand Election: Chakrata Assembly Constituency 2022
Chakrata is the assembly constituency which comes under the Dehradun district. It is one of the 70 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly Constituencies . Uttarakhand Assembly Election 2022 for Chakrata was held on February 14 and the result was declared on March 10.
In Uttarakhand Assembly Election 2017, there were 99,390 registered voters for Chakrata assembly seat, out of which 54,377 were male and 45,013 were female voters. 0.4% of voters opted for for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly Election, there were 4 candidates in the fray from Chakrata constituency. Chakrata was one of 11 seats won by the Indian National Congress. It was a close contest with Indian National Congress's Pritam Singh winning the election upstaging Bharatiya Janata Party's Madhu Chauhan by a margin of just 1,543 votes.
The top two candidates split 95.7% of votes between them. Indian National Congress's Pritam Singh got a total of 34,968 votes, while Bharatiya Janata Party's Madhu Chauhan secured 33,425 votes. Bahujan Samaj Party's candidate Daulat Kunwar secured 2,375 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 48.9%, 46.8% and 3.3% respectively.
In Uttarakhand Assembly election 2012, Indian National Congress's Pritam Singh beat Uttarakhand Janwadi Party's Munna Singh Chauhan by 6,654 votes.