Belonia Assembly constituency

Belonia is one of the 60 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Tripura state in India.[3]

Belonia
Constituency No. 35 for the Tripura Legislative Assembly
Belonia constituency within Tripura
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNortheast India
StateTripura
DistrictSouth Tripura[1]
LS constituencyTripura West
Established1967
Total electors44,741[2]
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
13th Tripura Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
Elected year2023
Preceded byArun Chandra Bhaumik

It is part of South Tripura district[1] and is centered around the town of Belonia. As of 2023, Dipankar Sen is the current representative of this constituency. His term is expected to last until 2028.

History

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The constituency of Belonia was created, in 1967, for the newly created 30-seat Legislative Assembly of the union territory of Tripura, by the Government Of Union Territories Act, 1963.[4] Later, in 1971, Tripura was converted from a union territory to a state, by the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971, which increased the number of constituencies in Tripura to 60,[5] hence requiring major boundary changes to the constituencies.

By the last delimitation, carried out in 2005, the constituency consists of all of Belonia and Maichhara tehsils and parts of Barpathari, Baikhora and Rajapur tehsils.[6]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Year Member Party
1967 U. K. Roy[7] Indian National Congress
Major Boundary Changes
1972 Jitendra Lal Das[8] Communist Party of India
1977 Jyotirmoy Das[9] Communist Party of India
1983 Manoranjan Majumder[10] Independent
1988 Amal Mallik[11] Indian National Congress
1993[12]
1998 Basudev Majumder[13] Communist Party of India
2003[14]
2008[15]
2013[16]
2018 Arun Chandra Bhaumik[17][18][19] Bharatiya Janata Party
2023 Dipankar Sen Communist Party of India

Election results

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20th century

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1967

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Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 1967: Belonia[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC U.K. Roy 10,502 60.05 N/A
CPI J.L. Das 6,691 38.26 N/A
Independent J.C.D. Mahajan 297 1.70 N/A
Majority 3,811 21.79 N/A
Turnout 17,490 73.00 N/A
INC win (new seat)

1972

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Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 1972: Belonia[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI Jitendra Lal Das 3,992 43.57  5.31
INC Suresh Chandra Choudhury 3,627 39.59 N/A
CPI(M) Sudhangsu Bimal Dutta 1,543 16.84 N/A
Majority 365 3.98  17.81
Turnout 9,162 58.79  14.21
CPI gain from INC Swing

1977

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Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 1977: Belonia[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) Jyotirmoy Das 5,460 41.65 N/A
INC Manoranjan Majumder 5,341 40.74 N/A
JP Manik Lal Choudhury 1,176 8.97 N/A
CPI Jitendra Lal Das 841 6.41  37.16
Independent Ramesh Chandra Das 292 2.23 N/A
Majority 119 0.91  3.07
Turnout 13,358 81.72  22.93
CPI(M) gain from CPI Swing

1983

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Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 1983: Belonia[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Manoranjan Majumder 8,081 50.75  10.01
CPI Jitendra Lal Das 7,657 48.08  41.67
Independent Madan Mohan Baidya 153 0.96 N/A
Independent Anil Saha 33 0.21 N/A
Majority 424 2.66  1.75
Turnout 15,924 87.18  5.46
Independent gain from CPI(M) Swing

1988

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Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 1988: Belonia[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Amal Mallik 10,227 51.96 N/A
CPI Jitendra Lal Das 9,314 47.32  0.76
BJP Anil Saha 97 0.49  0.28
Independent Ratan Roy 45 0.23 N/A
Majority 913 4.63  1.97
Turnout 19,683 88.52  1.34
INC gain from Independent Swing

1993

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Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 1993: Belonia[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Amal Mallik 14,985 62.30  10.34
CPI Sunil Baran Das Gupta 8,430 35.05 N/A
BJP Keshab Ch. Sarkar 232 0.96 N/A
Independent Amulya Bhowmik 110 0.46 N/A
Independent Madan Daidya 98 0.41 N/A
Independent Pulin Behari Chowdhury 92 0.38 N/A
Independent Pabitra Roy 64 0.27 N/A
Independent Sital Datta 42 0.17 N/A
Majority 6,555 27.25  22.62
Turnout 24,053 86.92  1.60
INC hold Swing

1998

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Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 1998: Belonia[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) Basudev Majumder 12,409 52.21 N/A
INC Amal Mallik 10,552 44.40  17.90
BJP Jagadish Ch. Bose 762 3.21 N/A
Independent Madan Baidya 44 0.19  0.22
Majority 1857 7.81  19.44
Turnout 23767 87.63  0.71
CPI(M) gain from INC Swing

21st century

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2003

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Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 2003: Belonia[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) Basudev Majumder 15,419 59.13  6.92
INC Babul Majumder 9,469 36.31 N/A
AITC Amal Mallik 673 2.58  41.82
NCP Bimal Krishna Nag 292 1.12 N/A
LJP Haripada Chakrabarty 223 0.86 N/A
Majority 5950 22.82  15.01
Turnout 26076 84.65  2.98
CPI(M) hold Swing

2008

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Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 2008: Belonia[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) Basudev Majumder 15,971 50.47  8.66
INC Amal Mallik 14,652 46.30  43.72
CPI(ML)L Babul Chandra Pal 333 1.05 N/A
AITC Sudeb Sen Choudhury 294 0.93 N/A
BJP Keshab Chandra Sarkar 293 0.93 N/A
Independent Ratan Roy 102 0.32 N/A
Majority 1312 4.17  18.65
Turnout 31645 95.0  10.35
CPI(M) hold Swing

2013

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Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 2013: Belonia[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) Basudev Majumder 20,585 55.60  5.13
INC Amal Mallik 15,761 42.57  3.73
Independent Gouri Sankar Nandi 352 0.95 N/A
CPI(ML)L Babul Chandra Paul 324 0.88  0.17
Majority 4824 13.03  8.86
Turnout 37022 95.61   0.61
CPI(M) hold Swing

2018

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Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 2018: Belonia[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Arun Chandra Bhaumik 19,307 48.01 N/A
CPI(M) Basudev Majumder 18,554 46.14  9.46
INC Bholanath Dhar 399 1.01 N/A
AITC Prasanta Sen 323 0.82 N/A
Independent Gauri Sankar Nandi 157 0.408  0.54
Independent Amalendu Banik 124 0.326 N/A
NOTA None of the Above 378 0.96 N/A
Majority 753 1.72  11.31
Turnout 39,275 89.95  5.66
BJP gain from CPI(M) Swing

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "District/AC Map - Chief Electoral Officer, Tripura". ceotripura.nic.in. Archived from the original on 5 April 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Tripura General Legislative Election 2023 - Tripura - Election Commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Information of BLO". ermstripura.nic.in. Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  4. ^ "The Government of Union Territories Act, 1963" (PDF). 10 May 1963. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  5. ^ "The North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971" (PDF). www.indiacode.nic.in. 30 December 1971. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
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  11. ^ a b "Statistical Report on General Election, 1988 to the Legislative Assembly of Tripura". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  12. ^ a b "Statistical Report on General Election, 1993 to the Legislative Assembly of Tripura". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
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  14. ^ a b "Statistical Report on General Election, 2003 to the Legislative Assembly of Tripura". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
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  17. ^ a b "Tripura General Legislative Election 2018 - Tripura - Election Commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  18. ^ "Belonia Election Results 2018, Full list of Belonia Candidates for Tripura Elections 2018 -The Indian Express". Indian Express. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  19. ^ "Belonia Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". www.elections.in. 28 August 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2021.

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