Constituency
50. Ranikhet
Community mirrorUttarakhand · Uttarakhand Assembly Election, 2012
UK-RANIKHET
BJP 35.9%won by 0.2%INC 35.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 0.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 78 votes (0.20%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
74,031
Turnout
53.0%
Valid votes
39,271
Margin
78
0.20%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1AJAY BHATTBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,08935.9%
- 2KARAN MAHARAIndian National Congress · INC14,01135.7%
- 3PURAN SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9,34623.8%
- 4MAHENDRA SINGH BISHTIndependent · IND7651.9%
- 5KISHAN LALIndependent · IND4761.2%
- 6PURAN CHANDRA JOSHISamajwadi Party · SP3150.8%
- 7PRATIBHA NEGIUKDP · UKDP2690.7%
Since 2007
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +0.8%
- BJP share
- 36.3% → 35.9%
- INC share
- 36.8% → 35.7%
- Turnout
- — → 53.0%