Bharatiya Janata Party won a second term under Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, the first time any party has been re-elected in Uttarakhand's history.¹²

It won 47 of the 70 seats.

That left it 11 seats clear of a majority.

The Indian National Congress finished second, with 19 seats on 37.9% of the vote.

BJP itself polled 44.3% of the vote, a gap in votes far smaller than the gap in seats.

Uttarakhand cycled through three chief ministers in four months during 2021. Trivendra Singh Rawat left office on 10 March 2021, Tirath Singh Rawat served until 1 July 2021, and Pushkar Singh Dhami took over on 3 July 2021, remaining chief minister into the election.¹

The Aam Aadmi Party named retired army colonel Ajay Kothiyal as its chief ministerial candidate on 17 August 2021. Former BJP minister Yashpal Arya, who had joined the BJP in January 2017, returned to the Congress on 11 October 2021 with his son Sanjiv Arya.³⁴

The Election Commission set a single-phase poll for 14 February 2022 and counting for 10 March 2022, announced on 8 January 2022. Days later, the BJP expelled cabinet minister Harak Singh Rawat on 16 January 2022 for demanding a ticket; he then joined Congress.⁵⁶

Congress released its manifesto on 2 February 2022, promising to cap cooking-gas cylinder prices at ₹500. AAP's Arvind Kejriwal followed with a 10-point manifesto on 6 February 2022, offering free electricity up to 300 units. The Commission barred exit polls from 10 February to 7 March 2022.⁷⁸⁹

BJP made history simply by winning again.

It is the first time the same party has governed Uttarakhand for 2 elections in a row.

Even so, its own seat count eased from 57 to 47.

The single biggest movement actually ran the other way, from BJP to INC, covering 13 of the 23 seats that changed hands.

Turnout, the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot, slipped -0.6 pp from the previous election.

The closest race was Almora, Uttarakhand, decided by 127 votes.

Raipur, Uttarakhand was the most one-sided contest, won by 27.5% of the vote.

Hardwar Rural, Uttarakhand recorded the best turnout of any seat, 81.6%.

Dharampur, Uttarakhand was both the largest constituency by registered voters, with 2,09,869 on its rolls, and the most contested, drawing 19 candidates.

NOTA — "None of the Above", a ballot option letting voters formally reject every candidate on offer — drew 46,840 votes statewide, 0.9% of the total.

Uttarakhand became India's 27th state on 9 November 2000, carved from the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions of Uttar Pradesh.¹⁰

Its own regional party, the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal, split into two factions ahead of the 2012 election after a leadership dispute, with the Election Commission freezing its original name and symbol; the two sides reunited under that name in 2017.¹¹

The state was renamed Uttarakhand in 2007.¹⁰