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The 1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place on 1 May 1983, to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) from each of the 60 Assembly constituencies in Tripura, India.[1]
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), led by Nripen Chakraborty, won 37 seats and formed the Government in Tripura.
Highlights[edit | edit source]
Election for all 60 assembly constituencies of the Tripura Legislative Assembly were conducted in a single phase, on February 15, 1993.
Participating Political Parties[edit | edit source]
| Partytype Abbreviation | Party | |
|---|---|---|
| National Parties | ||
| 1 | BJP | Bhartiya Janta Party |
| 2 | CPI | Communist Party of India |
| 3 | CPM | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 4 | ICS | Indian Congress (Socialist) |
| 5 | INC | Indian National Congress |
| 6 | JNP | Janata Party |
| State Parties | ||
| 7 | FBL | All India Forward BlocK |
| 8 | RSP | Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| 9 | TUS | Tripura Upajati Zuba Samiti |
| Independents | ||
| 10 | IND | Independent |
No. of Constituencies[edit | edit source]
| Type of Constituencies | GEN | SC | ST | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Constituencies | 33 | 7 | 20 | 60 |
Electors[edit | edit source]
| Men | Women | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No.of Electors | 579,123 | 555,134 | 1,134,257 |
| No.of Electors who Voted | 495,281 | 446,504 | 941,785 |
| Polling Percentage | 85.52% | 80.43% | 83.03% |
Performance of Women Candidates[edit | edit source]
| Men | Women | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No.of Contestants | 195 | 11 | 206 |
| Elected | 56 | 04 | 60 |
Result[edit | edit source]
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| Party | Seats contested | Seats won | No. of votes | % of votes | 1977 Seats | ||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 4 | 0 | 578 | 0.06% | - | ||||
| Communist Party of India | 1 | 0 | 7,657 | 0.83% | 0 | ||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 56 | 37 | 433,608 | 46.78% | 51 | ||||
| Indian Congress Secular | 3 | 0 | 540 | 0.06% | - | ||||
| Indian National Congress | 45 | 12 | 282,859 | 30.51% | 0 | ||||
| Janata Party | 5 | 0 | 515 | 0.06% | 0 | ||||
| All India Forward Block | 1 | 0 | 6,549 | 0.71% | 1 | ||||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 2 | 2 | 15,218 | 1.64% | 2 | ||||
| Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 14 | 6 | 97,039 | 10.47% | 4 | ||||
| Independents | 75 | 3 | 82,443 | 8.89% | 2 | ||||
| Total | 206 | 60 | 927,006 | ||||||
| Source: ECI[6] | |||||||||
Results by constituency[edit | edit source]
| Assembly Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | |||||||||
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| #k | Names | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |||
| 1 | Simna | 83.41% | Abhiram Debbarma | CPI (M) | 9,206 | 65.23% | Kripa Rani Debbarma | Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 4,828 | 34.21% | 4,378 | ||
| 2 | Mohanpur | 80.89% | Dhirendra Chandra Debnath | INC | 6,568 | 45.07% | Radharaman Debnath | CPI (M) | 5,953 | 40.85% | 615 | ||
| 3 | Bamutia | 85.47% | Haricharan Sarkar | CPI (M) | 7,417 | 50.79% | Prafulla Kumar Das | INC | 7,023 | 48.09% | 394 | ||
| 4 | Barjala | 83.66% | Gouri Bhattacharjee | CPI (M) | 8,160 | 49.3% | Basana Chakraborty | Independent | 4,904 | 29.63% | 3,256 | ||
| 5 | Khayerpur | 83.34% | Sudhir Ranjan Majumder | INC | 8,539 | 52.98% | Akhil Debnath | CPI (M) | 7,321 | 45.43% | 1,218 | ||
| 6 | Agartala | 80.44% | Manik Sarkar | CPI (M) | 10,623 | 52.18% | Promode Ranjandas Gupta | INC | 9,485 | 46.59% | 1,138 | ||
| 7 | Ramnagar | 80.24% | Biren Dutta | CPI (M) | 8,026 | 50.8% | Amar Ranjan Gupta | INC | 7,640 | 48.35% | 386 | ||
| 8 | Town Bordowali | 79.31% | Ashok Kumar Bhattacharya | INC | 7,689 | 52.95% | Brajagopal Roy | AIFB | 6,549 | 45.1% | 1,140 | ||
| 9 | Banamalipur | 82.11% | Sukhamoy Sen Gupta | INC | 6,883 | 52.43% | Bibekananda Bhowmik | CPI (M) | 5,913 | 45.04% | 970 | ||
| 10 | Majlishpur | 83.16% | Khagen Das | CPI (M) | 6,397 | 44.21% | Ranjit Saha | INC | 4,901 | 33.87% | 1,496 | ||
| 11 | Mandaibazar | 81.% | Rashiram Debbarma | CPI (M) | 9,861 | 56.04% | Amiya Kumar Debbarma | Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 7,594 | 43.16% | 2,267 | ||
| 12 | Takarjala | 79.35% | Sudhanwa Debbarma | CPI (M) | 9,029 | 59.83% | Suriya Kumar Debbarma | Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 5,930 | 39.29% | 3,099 | ||
| 13 | Pratapgarh | 85.63% | Anil Sarkar | CPI (M) | 12,736 | 58.4% | Monomohan Das | INC | 8,758 | 40.16% | 3,978 | ||
| 14 | Badharghat | 82.65% | Jadab Majumder | CPI (M) | 11,244 | 56.37% | Niranjan Paul | INC | 8,551 | 42.87% | 2,693 | ||
| 15 | Kamalasagar | 84.88% | Matilal Sarkar | CPI (M) | 7,601 | 50.85% | Monoranjan Laskar | INC | 7,170 | 47.97% | 431 | ||
| 16 | Bishalgarh | 84.65% | Bhanu Lal Saha | CPI (M) | 7,340 | 51.54% | Samir Ranjan Barman | INC | 6,900 | 48.46% | 440 | ||
| 17 | Golaghati | 81.76% | Budha Debbarma | Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 8,011 | 50.18% | Niranjan Debbarma | CPI (M) | 7,198 | 45.09% | 813 | ||
| 18 | Charilam | 83.44% | Parimal Chandra Saha | INC | 8,528 | 52.7% | Braja Gopal Bhowmik | CPI (M) | 7,302 | 45.12% | 1,226 | ||
| 19 | Boxanagar | 88.79% | Araber Rahaman | CPI (M) | 7,022 | 51.21% | Munsur Ali | INC | 6,648 | 48.49% | 374 | ||
| 20 | Nalchar | 89.03% | Narayan Das | INC | 7,420 | 49.94% | Sumanta Kumar Das | CPI (M) | 7,210 | 48.53% | 210 | ||
| 21 | Sonamura | 87.97% | Rashik Lal Roy | INC | 7,264 | 51.55% | Subal Rudra | CPI (M) | 6,623 | 47.% | 641 | ||
| 22 | Dhanpur | 89.26% | Samar Chowdhury | CPI (M) | 8,795 | 54.02% | Brajendra Kumar Ghosh | INC | 7,487 | 45.98% | 1,308 | ||
| 23 | Ramchandraghat | 87.55% | Dasarath Deb | CPI (M) | 11,451 | 86.89% | Bathsailyamani Jamatia | Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 1,728 | 13.11% | 9,723 | ||
| 24 | Khowai | 88.15% | Samir Deb Sarkar | CPI (M) | 5,777 | 45.18% | Sukhamoy Kar | INC | 3,587 | 28.05% | 2,190 | ||
| 25 | Asharambari | 85.91% | Bidya Chandra Debbarma | CPI (M) | 11,360 | 79.67% | Kishalaya Kanti Debbarma | INC | 1,591 | 11.16% | 9,769 | ||
| 26 | Pramodenagar | 87.6% | Nripen Chakraborty | CPI (M) | 10,845 | 60.87% | Siromani Roy | Independent | 5,212 | 29.25% | 5,633 | ||
| 27 | Kalyanpur | 84.93% | Makhan Lal Chakraborty | CPI (M) | 7,064 | 49.% | Debabrata Datta | Independent | 4,566 | 31.67% | 2,498 | ||
| 28 | Krishnapur | 71.86% | Kali Kumar Debbarma | CPI (M) | 7,267 | 54.29% | Maharaja Kumar Sahadeb Bikaram Kishore Debbarma | INC | 5,059 | 37.8% | 2,208 | ||
| 29 | Teliamura | 83.15% | Gita Chowdhury | INC | 6,835 | 42.48% | Jitendra Sarkar | CPI (M) | 5,984 | 37.19% | 851 | ||
| 30 | Bagma | 81.6% | Rati Mohan Jamaitia | Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 10,157 | 62.93% | Gunapada Jamatia | CPI (M) | 5,506 | 34.11% | 4,651 | ||
| 31 | Salgarh | 87.11% | Gopal Chandra Das | Revolutionary Socialist Party | 8,148 | 53.21% | Kamini Kumar Das | INC | 7,032 | 45.92% | 1,116 | ||
| 32 | Radhakishorpur | 84.17% | Jogesh Chakraborty | Revolutionary Socialist Party | 7,070 | 51.44% | Bhanu Gopal Baisnab | INC | 6,590 | 47.95% | 480 | ||
| 33 | Matarbari | 86.26% | Maharani Bibhu Kumari Devi | INC | 9,195 | 57.41% | Madhab Saha | CPI (M) | 6,625 | 41.36% | 2,570 | ||
| 34 | Kakraban | 87.28% | Keshab Chandra Majumder | CPI (M) | 8,256 | 52.% | Nanik Chandra Das | INC | 7,521 | 47.37% | 735 | ||
| 35 | Rajnagar | 87.29% | Nakul Das | CPI (M) | 10,144 | 54.83% | Bhuban Mohan Das | INC | 7,951 | 42.98% | 2,193 | ||
| 36 | Belonia | 87.18% | Manoranjan Majumder | Independent | 8,081 | 50.75% | Jitendra Lal Das | CPI | 7,657 | 48.08% | 424 | ||
| 37 | Santirbazar | 83.85% | Shyama Charan Tripura | Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 10,478 | 55.63% | Narayan Chandra Kar | CPI (M) | 7,759 | 41.19% | 2,719 | ||
| 38 | Hrishyamukh | 90.43% | Badal Chowdhury | CPI (M) | 9,204 | 53.87% | Amal Mallik | INC | 7,703 | 45.08% | 1,501 | ||
| 39 | Jolaibari | 83.61% | Kashi Ram Reang | INC | 6,718 | 51.9% | Brajamohan Jamatia | CPI (M) | 6,227 | 48.1% | 491 | ||
| 40 | Manu | 83.5% | Angju Mog | INC | 10,304 | 55.2% | Jitendra Kumar Chowdhury | CPI (M) | 8,362 | 44.8% | 1,942 | ||
| 41 | Sabroom | 87.5% | Sunil Kumar Chowdhury | CPI (M) | 9,118 | 52.55% | Adhir Chandra Bhaumik | INC | 7,981 | 46.% | 1,137 | ||
| 42 | Ampinagar | 75.29% | Nagendra Jamatia | Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 9,449 | 58.99% | Madhu Sudan Kalai | CPI (M) | 4,941 | 30.84% | 4,508 | ||
| 43 | Birganj | 79.77% | Jawhar Saha | Independent | 8,747 | 48.54% | Syjmal Kanti Saha | CPI (M) | 6,352 | 35.25% | 2,395 | ||
| 44 | Raima Valley | 71.66% | Rabindra Debbarma | Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 7,772 | 51.82% | Anand Mohan Reaja | CPI (M) | 7,225 | 48.18% | 547 | ||
| 45 | Kamalpur | 89.17% | Bimal Singha | CPI (M) | 7,674 | 59.48% | Kanak Ranjan Ghosh | INC | 5,161 | 40.% | 2,513 | ||
| 46 | Surma | 86.82% | Rudreswar Das | CPI (M) | 7,763 | 51.45% | Harendra Chandra Das | INC | 6,215 | 41.19% | 1,548 | ||
| 47 | Salema | 84.5% | Dinesh Debbarma | CPI (M) | 8,032 | 51.65% | Bijoy Kumar Jamatia | Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 6,761 | 43.48% | 1,271 | ||
| 48 | Kulai | 78.96% | Diba Chandra Harangkhal | Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 8,419 | 50.78% | Kamini Debbarma | CPI (M) | 7,480 | 45.12% | 939 | ||
| 49 | Chawamanu | 75.94% | Purna Mohan Tripura | CPI (M) | 6,662 | 50.24% | Jadumohan Tripura | Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 6,598 | 49.76% | 64 | ||
| 50 | Pabiachhara | 81.19% | Bidhu Bhusan Malakar | CPI (M) | 7,544 | 50.6% | Subal Chandra Biswas | INC | 6,413 | 43.02% | 1,131 | ||
| 51 | Fatikroy | 86.31% | Tarani Mohan Singha | CPI (M) | 7,580 | 51.65% | Radhika Ranjan Gupta | INC | 5,898 | 40.19% | 1,682 | ||
| 52 | Chandipur | 88.38% | Baidyanath Majumdar | CPI (M) | 9,066 | 54.64% | Birajit Sinha | INC | 7,398 | 44.59% | 1,668 | ||
| 53 | Kailashahar | 83.9% | Syed Basit Ali | INC | 8,116 | 50.82% | Tapan Chakraborty | CPI (M) | 7,487 | 46.88% | 629 | ||
| 54 | Kurti | 79.5% | Faizur Rahaman | CPI (M) | 7,738 | 57.78% | Abdul Razak Bisharad | INC | 4,794 | 35.79% | 2,944 | ||
| 55 | Kadamtala | 76.63% | Samir Kumar Nath | CPI (M) | 5,061 | 40.81% | Jyotirmoy Nath | INC | 4,727 | 38.11% | 334 | ||
| 56 | Dharmanagar | 79.09% | Amarendra Sarma | CPI (M) | 7,309 | 51.59% | Binay Bhushan Ray | INC | 5,570 | 39.31% | 1,739 | ||
| 57 | Jubarajnagar | 84.5% | Ram Kumar Nath | CPI (M) | 6,074 | 45.23% | Prasanna Kumar Nath | Independent | 4,225 | 31.46% | 1,849 | ||
| 58 | Pencharthal | 77.93% | Ratna Prava Das | Independent | 5,343 | 34.84% | Mohan Lal Chakma | CPI (M) | 5,000 | 32.6% | 343 | ||
| 59 | Panisagar | 79.32% | Subodh Chandra Das | CPI (M) | 6,642 | 53.45% | Bibekananda Chakraborty | Independent | 3,047 | 24.52% | 3,595 | ||
| 60 | Kanchanpur | 72.88% | Len Prasad Malsai | CPI (M) | 6,052 | 43.21% | Drao Kumar Reang | Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 4,321 | 30.85% | 1,731 | ||
Government Formation[edit | edit source]
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) won 37 out of 60 seats in the 60-seat Legislative Assembly. The Indian National Congress (INC) won 12 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Nripen Chakraborty of the CPI-M formed a government as Chief Minister.[8]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "Official Website of State Election Commission, Government of Tripura, India". sec.tripura.gov.in.
- ↑ "List of Participating Political Parties".
- ↑ "Constituencies-Tripura".
- ↑ "Total No.of Electors".
- ↑ "Performance of Women candidates Vs Men candidates".
- ↑ "1983 Tripura Election result".
- ↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1983 to the Legislative Assembly of Tripura" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (pdf) on 6 October 2010.
- ↑ "43. India/Tripura (1949-present)". uca.edu.