Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election, 2002

14 February 2002 (2002-02-14)

70 assembly constituencies 36 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	N. D. Tiwari	B. S. Koshyari
Party	INC	BJP
Alliance	none	none
Leader since	2002	2001
Leader's seat	Kashipur	Kapkot
Seats won	36	19
Percentage	26.91%	25.45%

Chief Minister before election

B. S. Koshyari
BJP

Elected Chief Minister

N. D. Tiwari
INC

Uttarakhand state assembly election, 2002 were the First Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) elections of the state when the Indian National Congress emerged as the largest party with 36 seats in the 70-seat legislature in the election. The Bharatiya Janata Party became the official opposition, holding 19 seats.

Results

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes	% Votes in Seats Contested
1	Indian National Congress (INC)	70	36	26.91%	26.91%
2	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	69	19	25.45%	25.81%
3	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	68	7	10.93%	11.20%
4	Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD)	62	4	5.49%	6.36%
5	Independents	70	4	-	-
	Total		70

Key post holders in the Assembly

Speaker : Yashpal Arya
Deputy Speaker : Vacant
Leader of the House: N. D. Tiwari
Leader of the Opposition : B. S. Koshyari
Principal Secretary :^[1]

References

↑ Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly

Result

Elections in Uttarakhand

Legislative Assembly elections	2002 2007 2012 2017

General elections	2004 2009 2014

Interim Government of Uttaranchal

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