1977_Tripura_Legislative_Assembly_election
The 1977 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place in a single phase on 31 December 1977 to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India.[1]
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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), led Left front won the election by 56 seats and formed a Government in Tripura.
Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on December 31, 1977. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.
Participating Political Parties
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| Partytype Abbreviation | Party | |
|---|---|---|
| National Parties | ||
| 1 | CPI | Communist Party of India |
| 2 | CPM | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 3 | INC | Indian National Congress |
| 4 | JNP | Janata Party |
| State Parties | ||
| 5 | FBL | All India Forward Bloc |
| 6 | RSP | Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| Registered (Unrecognised ) Parties | ||
| 7 | PBI | Proutist Bloc of India |
| 8 | TCD | Congress for Democracy |
| 9 | TUS | Tripura Upajati Zuba Samiti |
| Independents | ||
| 10 | IND | IndependentS |
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No. of Constituencies
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| Type of Constituencies | GEN | SC | ST | Total |
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| No. of Constituencies | 34 | 7 | 19 | 60 |
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Electors
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| Men | Women | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No.of Electors | 495,342 | 466,656 | 961,998 |
| No.of Electors who Voted | 406,052 | 358,878 | 764,930 |
| Polling Percentage | 81.97% | 76.90% | 79.51% |
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Performance of Women Candidates
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| Men | Women | Total | |
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| No.of Contestants | 322 | 06 | 328 |
| Elected | 59 | 01 | 60 |
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More information Party, Seats Contested ...
| Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won | No. of Votes | % of Votes | 1972 Seats | ||||
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| Communist Party of India | 10 | 0 | 6,266 | 0.84% | 1 | ||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 55 | 51 | 352,652 | 47.00% | 16 | ||||
| Indian National Congress | 60 | 0 | 133,240 | 17.76% | 41 | ||||
| Janata Party | 59 | 0 | 78,479 | 10.46% | - | ||||
| All India Forward Bloc | 1 | 1 | 7,800 | 1.04% | 0 | ||||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 2 | 2 | 12,446 | 1.66% | - | ||||
| Proutist Bloc of India | 6 | 0 | 2,139 | 0.29% | - | ||||
| Congress for Democracy | 59 | 0 | 66,913 | 9.08% | - | ||||
| Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 28 | 4 | 59,474 | 7.93% | 0 | ||||
| Independents | 48 | 2 | 30,862 | 4.11% | 2 | ||||
| Total | 328 | 60 | 750,271 | ||||||
| Source: ECI[6] | |||||||||
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Results by constituency
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| Assembly Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | |||||||||
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| #k | Names | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |||
| 1 | Simna | 83.98% | Abhiram Debbarma | CPI(M) | 6,800 | 54.13% | Maharajkumar Sahadev Bikram Kishore Dev Barman | JP | 2,739 | 21.8% | 4,061 | ||
| 2 | Mohanpur | 81.74% | Radharaman Debnath | CPI(M) | 4,599 | 36.51% | Ambika Deb | Congress for Democracy | 2,797 | 22.21% | 1,802 | ||
| 3 | Bamutia | 83.52% | Haricharan Sarkar | CPI(M) | 6,195 | 49.7% | Parfulla Kumar Das | Congress for Democracy | 5,276 | 42.33% | 919 | ||
| 4 | Barjala | 82.1% | Gouri Bhattacharjee | CPI(M) | 8,178 | 58.79% | Reserwar Datta | Congress for Democracy | 3,317 | 23.84% | 4,861 | ||
| 5 | Khayerpur | 78.93% | Akhil Debnath | CPI(M) | 5,833 | 45.4% | Amar Ranjan Gupta | INC | 2,168 | 16.87% | 3,665 | ||
| 6 | Agartala | 78.14% | Ajoy Biswas | Independent | 10,682 | 68.2% | Kamal Kumar Singha | Congress for Democracy | 2,021 | 12.9% | 8,661 | ||
| 7 | Ramnagar | 78.72% | Biren Datta | CPI(M) | 8,420 | 63.41% | Apanshu Mohan Lodh | INC | 2,553 | 19.23% | 5,867 | ||
| 8 | Town Bordowali | 77.93% | Brajagopal Roy | AIFB | 7,800 | 62.76% | Dwijen Dey | JP | 2,034 | 16.37% | 5,766 | ||
| 9 | Banamalipur | 79.01% | Bibekananda Bhowmik | Independent | 6,734 | 64.43% | Priya Lal Paul | Congress for Democracy | 1,745 | 16.7% | 4,989 | ||
| 10 | Majlishpur | 84.67% | Khagen Das | CPI(M) | 4,437 | 37.07% | Jatindra Kumar Majumdar | Congress for Democracy | 2,425 | 20.26% | 2,012 | ||
| 11 | Mandaibazar | 78.24% | Rashiram Debbarma | CPI(M) | 6,915 | 50.72% | Kshirode Debbarma | TUS | 3,606 | 26.45% | 3,309 | ||
| 12 | Takarjala | 76.36% | Sudhanwa Debbarma | CPI(M) | 5,358 | 41.5% | Biswa Kumar Debbarma | TUS | 4,075 | 31.56% | 1,283 | ||
| 13 | Pratapgarh | 82.27% | Anil Sarkar | CPI(M) | 10,869 | 66.44% | Madhusudan Das | INC | 3,397 | 20.76% | 7,472 | ||
| 14 | Badharghat | 80.06% | Jadab Majumder | CPI(M) | 10,816 | 74.83% | Sachindra Lal Singha | Congress for Democracy | 1,844 | 12.76% | 8,972 | ||
| 15 | Kamalasagar | 79.99% | Matilal Sarkar | CPI(M) | 7,041 | 58.12% | Manoranjan Laskar | JP | 2,451 | 20.23% | 4,590 | ||
| 16 | Bishalgarh | 81.89% | Gautam Prasad Dutta | CPI(M) | 5,384 | 45.47% | Samir Ranjan Barman | JP | 3,546 | 29.95% | 1,838 | ||
| 17 | Golaghati | 80.92% | Niranjan Debbarma | CPI(M) | 4,254 | 31.85% | Budha Debbarma | TUS | 3,171 | 23.74% | 1,083 | ||
| 18 | Charilam | 79.78% | Harinath Debbarma | TUS | 4,259 | 33.2% | Durga Prasad Sikdar | CPI(M) | 3,231 | 25.18% | 1,028 | ||
| 19 | Boxanagar | 84.81% | Arabar Rahaman | CPI(M) | 5,255 | 47.1% | Munsur Ali | INC | 4,114 | 36.88% | 1,141 | ||
| 20 | Nalchar | 83.37% | Sumanta Kumar Das | CPI(M) | 6,433 | 52.69% | Bir Chandra Barman | INC | 2,945 | 24.12% | 3,488 | ||
| 21 | Sonamura | 84.% | Subal Rudra | CPI(M) | 6,469 | 53.88% | Debendra Kishore Chowdhury | INC | 4,389 | 36.55% | 2,080 | ||
| 22 | Dhanpur | 83.08% | Samar Chowdhury | CPI(M) | 6,244 | 48.79% | Brojendra Ghosh | JP | 3,100 | 24.22% | 3,144 | ||
| 23 | Ramchandraghat | 89.22% | Dasarath Deb | CPI(M) | 9,585 | 81.57% | Nand Kumar Debbarma | JP | 1,166 | 9.92% | 8,419 | ||
| 24 | Khowai | 84.66% | Swaraijam Kamini Thakur Singha | CPI(M) | 5,715 | 51.25% | Arun Kar | Congress for Democracy | 3,215 | 28.83% | 2,500 | ||
| 25 | Asharambari | 82.94% | Bidya Chandra Debbarma | CPI(M) | 9,506 | 77.7% | Dayanand Debbarma | INC | 1,125 | 9.19% | 8,381 | ||
| 26 | Pramodenagar | 82.3% | Nirpen Chakraborty | CPI(M) | 8,786 | 57.53% | Upendra Chandra Debnath | INC | 2,565 | 16.79% | 6,221 | ||
| 27 | Kalyanpur | 83.94% | Makhan Lal Chakraborty | CPI(M) | 5,211 | 41.27% | Ashoke Kumar Bhattacharya | INC | 2,842 | 22.51% | 2,369 | ||
| 28 | Krishnapur | 67.32% | Manindra Debbarma | CPI(M) | 6,116 | 57.3% | Maharajkumar Nakshatra Bikram | INC | 1,703 | 15.95% | 4,413 | ||
| 29 | Teliamura | 78.97% | Jitendra Sarkar | CPI(M) | 5,769 | 42.31% | Ratan Chakraborty | INC | 3,387 | 24.84% | 2,382 | ||
| 30 | Bagma | 79.66% | Rati Mohan Jamaitia | TUS | 5,652 | 45.26% | Ganapada Jamatia | CPI(M) | 5,194 | 41.59% | 458 | ||
| 31 | Salgarh | 82.49% | Gopal Chandra Das | RSP | 6,968 | 60.32% | Jitendra Chandra Das | INC | 1,620 | 14.02% | 5,348 | ||
| 32 | Radhakishorpur | 80.8% | Jogesh Chakraborty | RSP | 5,478 | 54.62% | Usha Ranjan Sen | INC | 1,755 | 17.5% | 3,723 | ||
| 33 | Matarbari | 82.2% | Naresh Chandra Ghosh | CPI(M) | 6,372 | 50.91% | Anil Sarkar | INC | 2,418 | 19.32% | 3,954 | ||
| 34 | Kakraban | 82.71% | Kashab Chandra Majumder | CPI(M) | 6,781 | 53.7% | Ajit Ranjan Ghosh | INC | 3,006 | 23.8% | 3,775 | ||
| 35 | Rajnagar | 78.8% | Nakul Das | CPI(M) | 7,828 | 55.49% | Upendra Kumar Das | INC | 5,100 | 36.15% | 2,728 | ||
| 36 | Belonia | 81.72% | Jyotirmoy Das | CPI(M) | 5,460 | 41.65% | Manoranjan Majumder | INC | 5,341 | 40.74% | 119 | ||
| 37 | Santirbazar | 78.29% | Drao Kumar Reang | TUS | 4,397 | 30.08% | Subodh Chandra Nath | CPI(M) | 3,902 | 26.69% | 495 | ||
| 38 | Hrishyamukh | 83.22% | Badal Chowdhury | CPI(M) | 7,552 | 56.01% | Arun Chandra Bhowmik | INC | 5,209 | 38.63% | 2,343 | ||
| 39 | Jolaibari | 76.69% | Brajamohan Jamatia | CPI(M) | 3,603 | 36.57% | Kashi Ram Reang | INC | 3,071 | 31.17% | 532 | ||
| 40 | Manu | 78.9% | Matahari Chowdhury | CPI(M) | 6,292 | 42.65% | Angju Mog | INC | 5,098 | 34.56% | 1,194 | ||
| 41 | Sabroom | 83.94% | Sunil Kumar Chowdhury | CPI(M) | 6,537 | 46.94% | Rabindra Kumar Patari | INC | 3,712 | 26.66% | 2,825 | ||
| 42 | Ampinagar | 73.6% | Nagendra Jamatia | TUS | 5,744 | 45.17% | Madhu Sudan Kalai | CPI(M) | 4,814 | 37.86% | 930 | ||
| 43 | Birganj | 77.9% | Syamal Saha | CPI(M) | 5,745 | 39.5% | Kanai Lal Sarkar | INC | 4,212 | 28.96% | 1,533 | ||
| 44 | Raima Valley | 67.65% | Baju Ban Riyan | CPI(M) | 7,661 | 72.65% | Monojay Roaja | TUS | 1,588 | 15.06% | 6,073 | ||
| 45 | Kamalpur | 84.04% | Bimal Singha | CPI(M) | 7,634 | 70.06% | Brajakishore Singha | INC | 1,156 | 10.61% | 6,478 | ||
| 46 | Surma | 83.58% | Rudrewar Das | CPI(M) | 7,403 | 57.83% | Jogendra Das | INC | 2,096 | 16.37% | 5,307 | ||
| 47 | Salema | 81.29% | Dinesh Debbarma | CPI(M) | 6,890 | 53.24% | Madan Mohan Debbarma | INC | 3,302 | 25.52% | 3,588 | ||
| 48 | Kulai | 76.7% | Kamini Debbarma | CPI(M) | 6,050 | 46.34% | Prafulla Roaja | INC | 2,664 | 20.41% | 3,386 | ||
| 49 | Chawamanu | 68.48% | Purna Mohan Tripura | CPI(M) | 4,613 | 49.9% | Shyama Charan Tripura | TUS | 1,587 | 17.17% | 3,026 | ||
| 50 | Pabiachhara | 75.96% | Bidhu Bhusan Malakar | CPI(M) | 6,270 | 53.84% | Brajendra Das | INC | 2,778 | 23.85% | 3,492 | ||
| 51 | Fatikroy | 82.67% | Tarani Mohan Singha | CPI(M) | 6,057 | 44.21% | Gopesh Ranjan Deb | INC | 3,365 | 24.56% | 2,692 | ||
| 52 | Chandipur | 82.56% | Baidyanath Majumdar | CPI(M) | 9,197 | 64.38% | Manindralal Bhowmik | INC | 3,260 | 22.82% | 5,937 | ||
| 53 | Kailashahar | 78.54% | Tapan Chakraborty | CPI(M) | 7,111 | 53.36% | Abdul Shahid | INC | 3,954 | 29.67% | 3,157 | ||
| 54 | Kurti | 76.51% | Faizur Rahaman | CPI(M) | 5,500 | 48.28% | Gopendra Kumar Das | JP | 1,233 | 10.82% | 4,267 | ||
| 55 | Kadamtala | 73.02% | Umesh Chandra Nath | CPI(M) | 5,575 | 56.06% | Luthfur Rahaman Chowdhury | JP | 1,731 | 17.41% | 3,844 | ||
| 56 | Dharmanagar | 79.12% | Amarendra Sarma | CPI(M) | 6,640 | 53.94% | Debiprasad Purkayastha | INC | 2,963 | 24.07% | 3,677 | ||
| 57 | Jubarajnagar | 80.62% | Ram Kumar Nath | CPI(M) | 6,379 | 56.21% | Manoranjan Nath | Congress for Democracy | 2,255 | 19.87% | 4,124 | ||
| 58 | Pencharthal | 70.29% | Mohan Lal Chakma | CPI(M) | 4,977 | 42.47% | Sushil Kumar Chakma | INC | 2,966 | 25.31% | 2,011 | ||
| 59 | Panisagar | 75.21% | Subodh Chandra Das | CPI(M) | 5,588 | 58.4% | Debendra Chandra Nath | Independent | 781 | 8.16% | 4,807 | ||
| 60 | Kanchanpur | 65.06% | Mandida Reang | CPI(M) | 5,608 | 55.81% | Sukadayal Jamatia | TUS | 2,012 | 20.02% | 3,596 | ||
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The Left Front won a majority of the 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The LF was an alliance of left-wing political parties, including the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M). Nripen Chakraborty of the CPI-M formed a government as Chief Minister on January 5, 1978.[8]
- "Official Website of State Election Commission, Government of Tripura, India". sec.tripura.gov.in.
- "Statistical Report on General Election, 1977 to the Legislative Assembly of Tripura" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (pdf) on 13 June 2018.
- "43. India/Tripura (1949-present)". uca.edu.