Khatima Uttarakhand Election result 2022: CM Dhami loses to Congress' Bhuwan Kapri

UPDATE AT 3.36 PM 

Incumbent Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, with 33175 votes, loses to Congress’s Bhuvan Kapri (40107 votes) from Khatima constituency.

Incumbent Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Pushkar Singh Dhami was trailing in his constituency Khatima. After the conclusion of counting, Bhuwan Chandra Kapri of the Indian National Congress won 6951 votes more than current CM Pushkar Dhami.

Dhami managed to get 40,675 votes after 10 rounds of counting, whereas Kapri had 47,626 votes.

• Bhuwan Chandra Kapri (INC) - 47,626
• Pushkar Singh Dhami (BJP) - 40,675
• Ramesh Singh (BSP) - 920
• Sawinder Singh Kaler (AAP) - 749

Khatima constituency - Everything you need to know

Republic TV brings you the latest and the fastest updates of the Khatima constituency. The counting of votes of the Uttarakhand Election 2022 got underway under the supervision of officers appointed by the Election Commission. After the conclusion of counting, the BJP CM lost from the Khatima constituency seat. The decisive fight in this constituency was between candidates of BJP and Congress.

Voting for the Khatima constituency along with Uttarakhand happened in a single-phase election on February 14. Due to the high anti-incumbency factor in the state, no political party has been able to retain power for consecutive terms since the formation of the state in 2000.

Total of 632 candidates contested across the state's 70 constituencies in 13 districts. While more than 82 lakh voters locked their votes in the EVM and chose their representatives for the 70-member state Assembly, a total of 11,447 polling booths were installed across the state.

A total of 8 candidates contested from Khatima seat, with seven of them representing a party and one Independent candidate. Along with Pushkar Singh Dhami and Bhuwan Chandra Kapri, the candidates who fought the elections from Khatima are Ramesh Singh of Bahujan Samaj Party, Asif Miyan from All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen, Rajesh from Bharatiya Subhash Sena, Vijay Pal from Samajwadi Party, Sawinderjeet Singh Kaler from Aam Aadmi Party and Baburam contested independently. 

Voter turnout in Uttarakhand which went to polls on February 14 was 65.37%, the Election Commission said. The final voter turnout figures in the state were released by the EC on Wednesday after the addition of data from the polling parties deployed in remote areas of the state.