All the process of nomination for Lok Sabha elections in Uttarakhand has been completed. After the withdrawal of nominations on Saturday, a total of 55 candidates are now in the fray for power.
Additional Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Kumar Jogdande told in the press conference that the time for withdrawal of nominations was fixed till 3 pm on Saturday. An independent candidate from Almora, one of the five Lok Sabha seats in the state, has withdrawn his nomination.
He said that now a total of 55 candidates are in the fray for five Lok Sabha constituencies in the state. In which 11 candidates will contest elections on Tehri seat, 13 on Pauri Garhwal, 7 in Almora, 10 in Nainital and 14 in Haridwar.
This time 83,37,914 voters will decide the fate of these candidates. There are 93,187 service voters in the elections. There are 1,48,090 voters aged 18 to 19 years who will press the EVM button for the first time. There are 65,160 voters above 85 years of age and 80,335 disabled voters.
Ban on exit and opinion polls
He said that as per the instructions of the Election Commission of India, publishing and broadcasting of exit poll findings will be completely prohibited during the election process. Exit polls will not be published and broadcast from 7 am on April 19 to 6:30 pm on June 1, 2024. All media houses will have to ensure compliance with these restrictions. Along with this, conducting opinion polls and publishing and broadcasting its results 48 hours before the end of voting will also be prohibited.
Candidates from Uttarakhand in Lok Sabha Elections 2024
Tehri Lok Sabha seat (11 candidates)
- Jot Singh Gunsola (Congress)
- Mala Rajya Lakshmi Shah (BJP)
- Nemchand (BSP)
- Navneet Singh Gusain (Rashtriya Uttarakhand Party)
- Brij Bhushan Karanwal (National Unity Party of India)
- Rampal Singh (People’s Party of India Democratic)
- Premdutt Semwal (Independent)
- Bobby Panwar (Independent)
- Vipin Kumar Aggarwal (Independent)
- Sardar Khan Pappu (Independent)
- Sudesh Tomar (Independent)
Garhwal Lok Sabha seat (13 candidates)
1.Anil Baluni (BJP)
2.Ganesh Godiyal (Congress)
3.Dhir Singh (BSP)
4.Arjun Singh (All India Family Party)
5.Ashutosh Negi (Uttarakhand Kranti Dal)
6.Dr. Mukesh Chandra Pant (Sainik Samaj Party)
7.Reshma (Socialist Unity Center of India Communist)
8.Vinod Kumar Sharma (Uttarakhand Equality Party)
9.Shyamlal (Bahujan Mukti Party)
10. Sureshi Devi (People’s Party of India Democratic)
11.Deependra Singh Negi (Independent)
12.Mukesh Prakash (Independent)
13.Sonu Kumar (Independent)
Almora Lok Sabha seat (seven candidates)
1.Ajay Tamta (BJP)
2.Pradeep Tamta (Congress)
3.Narayan Ram (BSP)
4.Kiran Arya (Uttarakhand Parivartan Party)
5.Jyoti Prakash Tamta (Bahujan Mukti Party)
6.Dr. Pramod Kumar (People’s Party of India Democratic)
7.Arjun Prasad (Independent)
Nainital-Udham Singh Nagar Lok Sabha seat (10 candidates)
1.Ajay Bhatt (BJP)
2.Prakash Joshi (Congress)
3.Akhtar Ali (BSP)
4.Akhlesh Kumar (All India Family Party)
5.Amar Singh Saini (People’s Party of India Democratic)
6.Jivan Chandra Upreti (Public Responsible Party of India)
7.Shib Singh (Uttarakhand Kranti Dal)
8.Surendra Singh (Bharatiya Shakti Chetna Party)
9.Ramesh Kumar Max (Independent)
10.Hitesh Pathak (Independent)
Haridwar Lok Sabha seat (14 candidates)
1.Trivendra Singh Rawat (BJP)
2.Virendra Rawat (Congress)
3.Jameel Ahmed (BSP)
4.Balbir Singh Bhandari (Uttarakhand Equality Party)
5.Mohan Singh Aswal (Uttarakhand Kranti Dal)
6.Lalit Kumar (People’s Party of India Democratic)
7.Suresh Pal (National Unity Party of India)
8.Akram Hussain (Independent)
9.Avanish Kumar (Independent)
10.Ashish Dhyani (Independent)
11.Umesh Kumar (Independent)
12.Karan Singh Saini (Independent)
13.Pawan Kashyap (Independent)
14.Vijay Kumar (Independent)
Election symbol allotted
Election symbols have been allotted to all the candidates. BJP, Congress and BSP are contesting elections on all the seats in the state, whereas SP has not fielded a single candidate this time.
Uttarakhand is also included in the states of the country where voting is to be held in the first phase on April 19. The nomination process for the Lok Sabha elections started on March 20. 63 candidates filed nominations in the process that continued till March 27. Of these, seven nominations were rejected upon scrutiny due to various technical errors.
