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Uttarakhand State Election Commission

Indian state election authority

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ29025568 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Uttarakhand State Election Commission is an autonomous, independent, constitutional and statutory authority of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It was formed on 30 July 2001 under the Constitution of India through the provisions of the 73rd and 74th Amendments Act of 1992.

List of State Election Commissioners

The following have held the post of the State Election Commissioner of Uttarakhand.

Elections

As of 2025 the thirteen districts in Uttarakhand had conducted eight general elections.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Uttarakhand State Election Commission” as indian state election authority. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 1992, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001-07-30. The account is most persuasive where Uttarakhand, State and Election can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as indian state election authority. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q29025568. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001, 1992 and 2025.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  2. Expand the search: follow Uttarakhand State Election Commission primary sources, Uttarakhand State Election Commission archive and Uttarakhand research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Uttarakhand State Election Commission” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.