Uttarakhand Election 2022: Champawat Assembly Seat
]Uttarakhand Election: Champawat Assembly Constituency 2022
Champawat is the assembly constituency which comes under the Champawat district. It is one of the 70 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly Constituencies . Uttarakhand Assembly Election 2022 for Champawat was held on February 14 and the result was declared on March 10.
In 2017, the Champawat assembly seat had 88,533 registered voters. Of the, 46,582 were male and 41,951 were female voters. 1.2% of votes were casted for NOTA.
In the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly Election 2017, Champawat constituency had 4 candidates for assembly seat contention. Total 57 seats were won by the Bharatiya Janata Party, Champawat was one of them. The election for Champawat seat was comfortably won by Bharatiya Janata Party's Kailash Chandra Gahtori defeating Indian National Congress's Hemesh Kharkwal by a huge margin of 17,360 votes.
The top two candidates split 96.8% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's Kailash Chandra Gahtori got a total of 36,601 votes, while Indian National Congress's Hemesh Kharkwal secured 19,241 votes. Uttarakhand Kranti Dal's candidate Trilok Chand Sorari secured 939 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 63.4%, 33.3% and 1.6% respectively.
In Uttarakhand Assembly election 2012, Indian National Congress's Sri Hemesh Kharkwal defeated Bahujan Samaj Party's Sri Madan Singh by 6,953 votes.