2013 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

2013 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
All 60 seats in the Tripura Legislative Assembly; 31 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	93.57%
	Tripura District Map
CM before election; Manik Sarkar; CPI (M)	CM-elect ; Manik Sarkar; CPI (M)

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.

Tripura

Highlights

Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on February 14, 2013. 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	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

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

Electors

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	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

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

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Background

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.

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.

Campaign

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.^[4]

Election Day

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.^[5]

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.^[6] This beats the previous record at 91.22 which was also set by Tripura in its 2008 assembly election.^[5] Women voters outnumbered men voters by 2.13 percent.^[6] There was 3,041 polling stations, and 18,000 poll officials were on duty.^[4]

Results

← Summary of the 14 February 2013 Tripura Legislative Assembly election results^[7]
Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
Parties and coalitions		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM)	1,059,327	48.1	0.1	49	3
	Indian National Congress (INC)	804,457	36.5	0.1	10
	Communist Party of India (CPI)	34,500	1.6	0.1	1
bgcolor="Template:Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra/meta/color"\|	Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT)	167,078	7.6	1.4	0	1
	Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP)	31,717	2.0	0.3	0	2
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	33,808	1.5		0
	Independents (IND)	21,126	1.0	2.2	0
	Others	50,052	1.8	0.4	0

Total		2,202,065	100.00		60	±0

Constituency wise Winners

AC No	Assembly Constituency Name	Winner Candidates Name	Gender	Party
1	Simna (ST)	Pranab Debbarma	M	CPM
2	Mohanpur	Ratan Lal Nath	M	INC
3	Bamutia (SC)	Haricharan Sarkar	M	CPM
4	Barjala (SC)	Jitendra Sarkar	M	INC
5	Khayerpur	Pabitra Kar	M	CPM
6	Agartala	Sudip Roy Barman	M	INC
7	Ramnagar	Ratan Das	M	CPM
8	Town Bordowali	Asish Kumar Saha	M	INC
9	Banamalipur	Gopal Chandra Roy	M	INC
10	Majlishpur	Manik Dey	M	CPM
11	Mandaibazar (ST)	Monoranjan Debbarma	M	CPM
12	Takarjala (ST)	Niranjan Debbarma	M	CPM
13	Pratapgarh (SC)	Anil Sarkar	M	CPM
14	Badharghat (SC)	Dilip Sarkar	M	INC
15	Kamalasagar	Narayan Chandra Chowdhuri	M	CPM
16	Bishalgarh	Bhanulal Saha	M	CPM
17	Golaghati (ST)	Keshab Debbarma	M	CPM
18	Suryamaninagar	Raj Kumar Chaudhuri	M	CPM
19	Charilam (ST)	Ramendra Narayan Debbarma	M	CPM
20	Boxanagar	Sahid Choudhuri	M	CPM
21	Nalchar (SC)	Tapan Chandra Das	M	CPM
22	Sonamura	Shyamal Chakraborty	M	CPM
23	Dhanpur	Manik Sarkar	M	CPM
24	Ramchandraghat (ST)	Padma Kumar Debbarma	M	CPM
25	Khowai	Samir Debsarkar	M	CPM
26	Asharambari (ST)	Aghore Debbarma	M	CPM
27	Kalyanpur-Pramodenagar	Manindra Chandra Das	M	CPM
28	Teliamura	Gouri Das	F	CPM
29	Krishnapur (ST)	Khagendra Jamatia	M	CPM
30	Bagma (ST)	Naresh Chandra Jamatia	M	CPM
31	Radhakishorepur	Pranajit Singha Roy	M	INC
32	Matarbari	Madhab Chandra Saha	M	CPM
33	Kakraban-Salgarh (SC)	Ratan Bhowmik	M	CPM
34	Rajnagar (SC)	Sudhan Das	M	CPM
35	Belonia	Basudev Majumder	M	CPM
36	Santirbazar (ST)	Manindra Reang	M	CPI
37	Hrishyamukh	Badal Choudhury	M	CPM
38	Jolaibari (ST)	JashabirTripura	M	CPM
39	Manu (ST)	Jitendra Chaudhury	M	CPM
40	Sabroom	Rita Kar (Majumder)	F	CPM
41	Ampinagar (ST)	Daniel Jamatia	M	CPM
42	Amarpur	ManoranjanAcharjee	M	CPM
43	Karbook (ST)	Priyamani Debbarma	M	CPM
44	Raima Valley (ST)	Lalit MohanTripura	M	CPM
45	Kamalpur	Bijoy Lakshmi Singha	F	CPM
46	Surma (SC)	Sudhir Das	M	CPM
47	Ambassa (ST)	Lalit Kumar Debbarma	M	CPM
48	Karmachhara (ST)	Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl	M	INC
49	Chawamanu (ST)	NirajoyTripura	M	CPM
50	Pabiachhara (SC)	Samiran Malakar	M	CPM
51	Fatikroy (SC)	Tunubala Malakar	F	CPM
52	Chandipur	Tapan Chakrabarti	M	CPM
53	Kailashahar	Birajit Sinha	M	INC
54	Kadamtala-Kurti	Fayzur Rohaman	M	CPM
55	Bagbassa	Bijita Nath	F	CPM
56	Dharmanagar	Biswabandhu Sen	M	INC
57	Jubarajnagar	Ramendra Chandra Debnath	M	CPM
58	Panisagar	Subodh Das	M	CPM
59	Pencharthal (ST)	Arun Kumar Chakma	M	CPM
60	Kanchanpur (ST)	Rajendra Reang	M	CPM

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 "ECI". Election Commission of India.
↑ "Constituency Wise Report of Electors as on 4th April, 2009 - Tripura West" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Tripura. 4 April 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
↑ "Constituency Wise Report of Electors as on 4th April, 2009 - Tripura East" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Tripura. 4 April 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 "Assembly Elections 2013: Tripura records 92 percent turnout, polling peaceful". India Today. 15 February 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 "Tripura records highest voter turnout in the country at 93 per cent: EC". IBN Live. 14 February 2013. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 Bhattacharjee, Biswendu (17 February 2013). "Tripura scripts poll history". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2013 to the Legislative Assembly of Tripura" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2014.

[auto-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 "ECI". Election Commission of India.

[2] "Constituency Wise Report of Electors as on 4th April, 2009 - Tripura West" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Tripura. 4 April 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2014.

[3] "Constituency Wise Report of Electors as on 4th April, 2009 - Tripura East" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Tripura. 4 April 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2014.

[candi_date-4] 4.0 ^4.1 "Assembly Elections 2013: Tripura records 92 percent turnout, polling peaceful". India Today. 15 February 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013.

[ibnturnout-5] 5.0 ^5.1 "Tripura records highest voter turnout in the country at 93 per cent: EC". IBN Live. 14 February 2013. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013.

[toiturnout-6] 6.0 ^6.1 Bhattacharjee, Biswendu (17 February 2013). "Tripura scripts poll history". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.

[7] "Statistical Report on General Election, 2013 to the Legislative Assembly of Tripura" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2014.

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