2013 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

The 2013 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place in a single phase on 14 February to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India.

2013 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

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All 60 seats in the Tripura Legislative Assembly
31 seats needed for a majority
Turnout93.57%
  First party Second party
 
Manik_Sarkar.jpg
Shri Sudip Roy Burman.jpg
Leader Manik Sarkar Sudip Roy Barman
Party CPI(M) INC
Alliance LF UPA
Leader since 1998 2013
Leader's seat Dhanpur Agartala
Last election 48.01%, 46 seats 36.38%, 10 seats
Seats won 49 10
Seat change Increase 3 Steady
Popular vote 1,059,327 804,457
Percentage 48.11% 36.53%
Swing Increase 0.1 pp Decrease 0.15 pp

Tripura District Map

CM before election

Manik Sarkar
CPI(M)

CM-elect

Manik Sarkar
CPI(M)

Tripura

Highlights edit

Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on 14 February 2013. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.

Participating Political Parties edit

[1]

Num Partytype Abbreviation Party
National Parties
1 BJP Bhartiya Janta Party
2 CPI Communist Party of India
3 CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4 INC Indian National Congress
5 NCP Nationalist Congress Party
State Parties - Other States
6 AIFB All India Forward Bloc
7 JD(U) Janata Dal (United)
8 RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party
9 SP Samajwadi Party
Registered (Unrecognised) Parties
10 AMB Amra Bangalee
11 CPI(ML)(L) Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)
12 INPT Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra
13 IPFT Indigenousn People's Front of Tripura
14 SUCI Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
Independents
15 IND Independent

No. of Constituencies edit

[1]

Type of Constituencies GEN SC ST Total
No. of Constituencies 30 10 20 60

Electors edit

[1]

Men Women Total
No.of Electors 1,201,209 1,157,284 2,358,493
No.of Electors who Voted 1,089,860 1,075,622 2,165,482
Polling Percentage 90.73% 92.94% 91.82%

Performance of Women Candidates edit

Men Women Total
No.of Contestants 234 15 249
Elected 55 05 60

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Background edit

The previous elections to the 10th Tripura Legislative Assembly was held in 2008. As of 2009, of the 60 ACs in Tripura, 20 are reserved for Scheduled Tribes and 10 are reserved for Scheduled Castes.[2][3] February 2013 Elections in all polling stations were held using Electronic voting machines.[citation needed]

The Left Front, led by Communist Party of India (Marxist), and headed by Manik Sarkar, had formed the Government in the 10th Tripura Assembly after being re-elected in 2008. The Left Front had won 46 of the 60 seats in 2008 election.[4]

Campaign edit

The 2013 elections saw the Left Front trying to retain power for a fifth consecutive term. A total of 249 candidates from different political parties contested this election.[5]

Election Day edit

Election Day (14 February 2013) was overall peaceful and passed without any major incident of violence in this state that has traditionally faced insurgency from militant outfits.[6]

According to the report by Times of India, the chief election officer of the state told that the voter turnout across the state was 93.57%, which set the record for the country's highest-ever voter turnout.[7] This beats the previous record at 91.22 which was also set by Tripura in its 2008 assembly election.[6] Women voters outnumbered men voters by 2.13 percent.[7] There was 3,041 polling stations, and 18,000 poll officials were on duty.[5]

Results edit

Summary of the 14 February 2013 Tripura Legislative Assembly election results[8]
 
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) 1,059,327 48.11  0.10 49  3
Indian National Congress (INC) 804,457 36.53  0.15 10  
Communist Party of India (CPI) 34,500 1.57  0.09 1  
Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT) 167,078 7.59  1.38 0  1
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) 31,717 1.95  0.26 0  2
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 33,808 1.54  0.05 0  
Independents (IND) 21,126 0.96  2.28 0  
Others 50,052 1.75  0.25 0  
Total 2,202,065 100.00 60 ±0

Results by constituency edit

  • Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituency[9]
Assembly Constituency Turnout Winner Runner Up Margin
#k Names % Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %
1 Simna 93.65% Pranab Debbarma CPI(M) 17,063 54.36% Rabindra Debbarma INPT 13,244 42.19% 3,819
2 Mohanpur 94.8% Ratan Lal Nath INC 19,143 49.12% Subhas Chandra Debnath CPI(M) 18,368 47.13% 775
3 Bamutia 95.61% Haricharan Sarkar CPI(M) 19,744 52.35% Prakash Chandra Das INC 16,994 45.06% 2,750
4 Barjala 94.64% Jitendra Sarkar INC 17,728 49.25% Jitendra Das CPI(M) 17,467 48.52% 261
5 Khayerpur 95.37% Pabitra Kar CPI(M) 20,972 50.72% Baptu Chakraborty INC 19,675 47.59% 1,297
6 Agartala 92.14% Sudip Roy Barman INC 22,160 52.29% Sankar Prasad Datta CPI(M) 19,398 45.77% 2,762
7 Ramnagar 89.85% Ratan Das CPI(M) 18,060 49.19% Surajit Datta INC 17,995 49.02% 65
8 Town Bordowali 86.86% Ashish Kumar Saha INC 22,474 57.45% Shyamal Roy AIFB 15,414 39.41% 7,060
9 Banamalipur 86.78% Gopal Chandra Roy INC 19,464 57.28% Yudhisthir Das CPI 13,702 40.32% 5,762
10 Majlishpur 96.36% Manik Dey CPI(M) 21,304 52.43% Bibekananda Chowdhury INC 18,375 45.22% 2,929
11 Mandaibazar 93.06% Manoranjan Debbarma CPI(M) 19,275 50.35% Jagadish Debbarma INPT 17,450 45.58% 1,825
12 Takarjala 91.91% Niranjan Debbarma CPI(M) 17,315 49.87% Rajeshwar Debbarma INPT 16,108 46.4% 1,207
13 Pratapgarh 22.82% Anil Sarkar CPI(M) 23,977 51.38% Ranjit Kumar Das INC 21,845 46.81% 2,132
14 Badharghat 93.7% Dilip Sarkar INC 24,309 49.29% Samar Das RSP 23,666 47.98% 643
15 Kamalasagar 94.76% Narayan Chandra Chowdhury CPI(M) 19,808 56.13% Dipak Kumar Roy INC 14,393 40.79% 5,415
16 Bishalgarh 95.73% Bhanu Lal Saha CPI(M) 20,987 51.02% Samir Ranjan Barman INC 19,263 46.83% 1,724
17 Golaghati 94.08% Kesab Debbarma CPI(M) 19,181 55.55% Manab Debbarma INPT 14,648 42.42% 4,533
18 Suryamaninagar 95.62% Rajkumar Chowdhury CPI(M) 21,613 50.47% Avijit Deb INC 19,979 46.66% 1,634
19 Charilam 93.8% Ramendra Narayan Debbarma CPI(M) 16,479 50.94% Himani Debbarma INC 15,138 46.79% 1,341
20 Boxanagar 96.3% Sahid Chowdhury CPI(M) 17,100 53.21% Billal Miah INC 14,579 45.36% 2,521
21 Nalchar 96.46% Tapan Chandra Das CPI(M) 21,969 59.96% Uttam Das INC 13,862 37.83% 8,107
22 Sonamura 95.13% Shyamal Chakraborty CPI(M) 18,043 52.21% Subal Bhowmik INC 16,517 47.79% 1,526
23 Dhanpur 96.07% Manik Sarkar CPI(M) 21,286 57.1% Shah Alam INC 15,269 40.96% 6,017
24 Ramchandraghat 93.07% Padma Kumar Debbarma CPI(M) 19,504 59.15% Animesh Debbarma Independent 11,613 35.22% 7,891
25 Khowai 96.17% Samir Deb Sarkar CPI(M) 22,692 60.82% Dipak Majumder INC 13,859 37.15% 8,833
26 Asharambari 92.92% Aghore Debbarma CPI(M) 17,826 59.55% Amiya Kumar Debbarma INPT 10,609 35.44% 7,217
27 Kalyanpur–Pramodenagar 93.87% Manindra Chandra Das CPI(M) 19,755 53.78% Kajal Chandra Das INC 15,975 43.49% 3,780
28 Teliamura 93.51% Gouri Das CPI(M) 18,357 50.2% Gourisankar Roy INC 17,044 46.61% 1,313
29 Krishnapur 93.75% Khagendra Jamatia CPI(M) 17,125 58.32% Sabda Kumar Jamatia INC 11,083 37.74% 6,042
30 Bagma 95.04% Naresh Chandra Jamatia CPI(M) 23,600 53.49% Jyotish Jamatia INPT 19,525 44.25% 4,075
31 Radhakishorpur 94.7% Pranjit Singha Roy INC 20,140 50.23% Joy Gobinda Deb Roy RSP 19,303 48.15% 837
32 Matarbari 95.78% Madhab Chandra Saha CPI(M) 22,178 50.09% Biplab Kumar Ghosh INC 20,868 47.13% 1,310
33 Kakraban–Salgarh 94.98% Ratan Kumar Bhowmik CPI(M) 24,947 57.07% Rajib Samaddar INC 17,757 40.62% 7,190
34 Rajnagar 95.1% Sudhan Das CPI(M) 23,942 63.61% Manik Chandra Das INC 12,545 33.33% 11,397
35 Belonia 95.73% Basudev Majumder CPI(M) 20,585 55.6% Amal Mallik INC 15,761 42.57% 4,824
36 Santirbazar 94.88% Manindra Reang CPI 20,798 52.87% Gouri Sankar Reang INC 17,042 43.32% 3,756
37 Hrishyamukh 96.22% Badal Chowdhury CPI(M) 25,009 65.42% Susankar Bhowmik INC 12,580 32.91% 12,429
38 Jolaibari 95.31% Jashabir Tripura CPI(M) 24,295 61.9% Brajendra Mog Chowdhury INC 14,952 38.1% 9,343
39 Manu 96.01% Jitendra Chaudhury CPI(M) 21,320 58.07% Chandi Charan Tripura INC 14,424 39.29% 6,896
40 Sabroom 95.68% Rita Kar (Majumder) CPI(M) 21,404 55.87% Premtosh Nath INC 16,197 42.28% 5,207
41 Ampinagar 93.06% Daniel Jamatia CPI(M) 15,714 52.69% Nagendra Jamatia INPT 12,930 43.36% 2,784
42 Amarpur 95.7% Manoranjan Acharjee CPI(M) 19,075 54.72% Niranjan Barman INC 15,053 43.18% 4,022
43 Karbook 94.17% Priyamani Debbarma CPI(M) 15,526 53.4% Dharjaroy Tripura INPT 12,091 41.59% 3,435
44 Raima Valley 92.51% Lalit Mohan Tripura CPI(M) 18,527 51.99% Nakshatra Jamatia INPT 15,651 43.92% 2,876
45 Kamalpur 92.72% Bijoy Lakshmi Singha CPI(M) 19,204 51.15% Manoj Kanti Deb INC 17,690 47.12% 1,514
46 Surma 92.66% Sudhir Das CPI(M) 18,648 50.51% Sukha Ranjan Das INC 16,786 45.47% 1,862
47 Ambassa 92.82% Lalit Kumar Debbarma CPI(M) 18,755 49.11% Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl INPT 17,701 46.35% 1,054
48 Karamcherra 91.1% Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl INC 15,411 49.77% Gajendra Tripura CPI(M) 14,039 45.34% 1,372
49 Chawamanu 89.96% Nirajoy Tripura CPI(M) 15,870 50.8% Zaidami Tripura INC 14,375 46.01% 1,495
50 Pabiachhara 92.74% Samiran Malakar CPI(M) 18,504 49.81% Satyaban Das INC 17,254 46.44% 1,250
51 Fatikroy 92.52% Tunubala Malakar CPI(M) 17,899 51.18% Jugal Malakar INC 16,034 45.84% 1,865
52 Chandipur 91.92% Tapan Chakraborty CPI(M) 21,009 58.43% Nirmalendu Deb INC 13,380 37.21% 7,629
53 Kailashahar 91.27% Birajit Sinha INC 18,857 49.55% Moboshar Ali CPI(M) 18,372 48.28% 485
54 Kadamtala–Kurti 91.22% Fayzur Rahaman CPI(M) 14,514 42.64% Abdul Matin Chowdhury INC 12,585 36.98% 1,929
55 Bagbassa 90.53% Bijita Nath CPI(M) 17,991 51.26% Jyotirmoy Nath INC 15,059 42.91% 2,932
56 Dharmanagar 91.45% Biswa Bandhu Sen INC 17,991 50.99% Amitabha Datta CPI(M) 16,147 45.77% 1,844
57 Jubarajnagar 94.% Ramendra Chandra Debnath CPI(M) 18,602 53.19% Ranadhir Nath INC 15,724 44.96% 2,878
58 Panisagar 92.13% Subodh Chandra Das CPI(M) 15,196 51.45% Radhika Ranjan Das INC 13,285 44.98% 1,911
59 Pencharthal 91.41% Arun Kumar Chakma CPI(M) 16,601 50.46% Purnita Chakma INC 15,584 47.36% 1,017
60 Kanchanpur 90.59% Rajendra Reang CPI(M) 17,186 50.13% Drao Kumar Reang INPT 16,105 46.98% 1,081

References edit

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