2004 Indian general election in Uttaranchal

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The 2004 Indian general election in Uttaranchal, occurred for 5 seats in the state. 3 seats were won by the Bharatiya Janata Party, 1 seat by Indian National Congress and 1 seat by Samajwadi Party.

Schedule

Event	Date
Date for Nominations	16 April 2004
Last Date for filing Nominations	23 April 2004
Date for scrutiny of nominations	24 April 2004
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	26 April 2004
Date of poll	10 May 2004
Date of counting	13 May 2004

Parties and alliances

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Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
Template:Party color cell	Bharatiya Janata Party			B. C. Khanduri	5

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Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress			Harish Rawat	5

Results by Party

Party Name				Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
Template:Party color cell	BJP			10,95,316	40.98	Template:Increase 1.36	5	3	Template:Decrease 1
Template:Party color cell	INC			10,24,062	38.31	Template:Increase 0.17	5	1	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	SP			2,12,085	7.93	Template:Increase 1.75	5	1	Template:Increase 1
Template:Party color cell	BSP			1,80,885	6.77	Template:Decrease 5.60	3	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	UKKD			43,899	1.64	Template:Increase 1.13	4	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	Others			40,530	1.51	Template:Steady	14	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	IND			76,094	2.85	Template:Increase 1.32	18	0	Template:Steady
Total				26,72,871	100%	-	54	5	-

Elected MPs

Following is the list of elected MPs from Uttaranchal.

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Tehri Garhwal	Manabendra Shah	Template:Party color cell	BJP	267,395	47.63	Vijay Bahuguna	Template:Party color cell	INC	249,949	44.52	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|17,446	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|3.11
2	Garhwal	B. C. Khanduri	Template:Party color cell	BJP	257,726	51.21	Tejpal Singh Rawat	Template:Party color cell	INC	206,764	41.09	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|50,962	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|10.13
3	Almora	Bachi Singh Rawat	Template:Party color cell	BJP	225,742	44.68	Renuka Rawat	Template:Party color cell	INC	215,690	42.69	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|10,052	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1.99
4	Nainital	K. C. Singh Baba	Template:Party color cell	INC	275,658	44.70	Vijay Bansal	Template:Party color cell	BJP	226,474	36.73	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|49,184	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|7.98
5	Hardwar (SC)	Rajendra Kumar Badi	Template:Party color cell	SP	157,331	32.35	Dr. Bhagwandass	Template:Party color cell	BSP	119,672	24.61	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|37,659	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|7.74

Assembly Segment wise lead

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2007 election)
	Bharatiya Janata Party	40	35
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Indian National Congress	22	21
	Samajwadi Party	4	0
	Bahujan Samaj Party	4	8
	Others	0	6
Total		70

By-election

By-elections were held in 2007 for Tehri Garhwal constituency on the death of Elected MP Manabendra Shah and for Garhwal constituency as Elected MP B. C. Khanduri became the Chief Minister of Uttaranchal.

In the election for Tehri Garhwal constituency, Indian National Congress candidate Vijay Bahuguna defeated Manujendra Shah, son of Manabendra Shah by margin of over 22,000.

In the election for Garhwal constituency, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Tejpal Singh Rawat defeated Satpal Maharaj.

See also

• Elections in Uttarakhand
• Politics of Uttarakhand
• 2004 Indian general election
• 14th Lok Sabha
• List of members of the 14th Lok Sabha