2nd STATE ASSSEMBLY ELECTION-2007 UTTARAKHAND STATE

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“Back Ground Information”

  • The State of Uttaranchal was carved out of Uttar Pradesh and came into being on 9-11-2000. In erstwhile Uttar Pradesh this geographical area had 22 Vidhan Sabha seats.
  • A Delimitation exercise was undertaken as per provisions of U.P. Reorganization Act 2000 and the State was delimited into 70 Assembly Constituencies. The first Assembly elections were held in Feb. 2002.
  • Uttaranchal has been renamed as Uttarakhand w.e.f 1-1-2007
Voter base
1.1.2002 52,53,433
1.1.2003 56,03,350 (INTENSIVE)
1.1.2004 55,17,889
1.1.2005 57,04,426
1.1.2006 59,78,622 (INTENSIVE)
1.1.2007 60,42,628
1.2.2007 60,82,755
Geographical Data
LATITUDE 280 43’ N TO 310 27’ N
LONGITUTE 770 34’ E TO 810 02’ E
AREA 53,483 sq. km
FOREST COVER 34,651 sq.km
Administrative Units
DIVISIONS 2
DISTRICTS 13
TAHSILS 78
BLOCKS 95
CENSUS VILLAGES 16286
Demography
TOTAL POPULATION 84.89 LAKHS
MALE 43.26 LAKHS
FEMALE 41.63 LAKHS
GENDER RATIO 962 : 1000
(Female):(male)
LITERACY RATIO 71.6 %
MALE 83.3%
FEMALE 59.6%
DISABILITY % 2.29 %
Lok/Rajya/Vidhan Sabha Seats
LOK SABHA CONSTITUENCIES 5
RAJYA SABHA SEATS 3
VIDHAN SABHA CONSTITUENCIES 70
DATE OF 1ST VIDHAN SABHA ELECTIONS 14-02-2002
POLL DATE FOR 2ND VIDHAN SABHA ELECTIONS 21-02-2007

IN VIDHAN SABHA 2002 ELECTIONS (1ST ELECTIONS) THE COMPOSITION OF SEATS WON IS AS UNDER:

CONGRESS 36
BJP 19
BSP 7
UKD (Uttarakhand Kranti Dal) 4
NCP 1
IND 3

IN LOK SABHA 2004 ELECTIONS, THE COMPOSITION OF SEATS WON IS AS UNDER:

BJP 3
CONGRESS 1
SP 1

District-wise DM/SSP Details

Sr. No. DISTRICT DM-cum-DEO SSP/SP
1 UTTARKASHI Shri R. Meenakshi Sundaram Shri Anant Ram Chauhan
2 TEHRI GARHWAL Shri Sanjay Kumar Shri G.S.Martolia
3 DEHRADUN Dr. Rakesh Kumar Shri Sanjay Kumar Gunjiyal
4 HARDWAR Shri R.K.Sudhansu Shri Abhinav Kumar
5 PAURI GARHWAL Shri Narayan Singh Negi Shri A.P.Anshuman
6 RUDRAPRAYAG Shri Urba Dutt Chaubey Shri B.P.Singh
7 CHAMOLI Shri Ajay Singh Nabiyal Shri Pusker Singh Selal
8 BAGESHWAR Shri Girja Shankar Joshi Shri Pushkar Jyoti
9 ALMORA Shri Rajeev Chandra Shri Satish Chandra Shukla
10 NAINITAL Dr. Bhupinder Kaur Aulakh Shri Alok Sharma
11 UDHAM SINGH NAGAR Shri Gopal Krishna Dwivedi Shri Amit Sinha
12 CHAMPAWAT Dr. P.S.Gusain Shri Mohan Singh
13 PITHORAGARH Shri Amit Kumar Negi Shri Ajay Rautela
State Government
CHIEF SECRETARY SHRI S.K.DAS
PRINCIPAL SECRETARY (HOME) SHRI N.S.NAPALCHAYAL
DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE SMT. KANCHAN CHAUDRY BHATTACHARYA
Divisional Officers
COMMISSIONER GARHWAL SHRI SUBHASH KUMAR
COMMISSIONER KUMAON SHRI RAKESH SHARMA
DIG RANGE GARHWAL SHRI R. S. MEENA
IG RANGE KUMAON SHRI AJAY KUMAR