Uttarakhand Assembly Election Result 2022: The counting of votes in the Lalkuan seat is underway.
This seat is crucial for the Congress party, as the party lost the 2019 Lok Sabha elections to the BJP. Former CM Harish Rawat was defeated by BJP candidate Ajay Bhatt in the Nainital-udhamsingh Nagar Lok Sabha constituency.
In the 2017 assembly elections, Naveen Chandra Dumka of BJP won in this seat defeating INC's candidate by a margin of 27108 votes.
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BJP's candidate Dr. Mohan Singh Bisht won over Congress's Harish Rawat in Lalkuwa with 53.23 per cent votes.
According to the Election Commission website, Bisht is leading with 16,432 votes.
The BJP had won 57 out of a total of 70 seats in Uttarakhand in the last assembly polls limiting Congress to just 11. Two seats had gone to Independents.
The Uttarakhand election was held in a single phase on February 14.
