2003 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

2003 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
All 60 seats in the Assembly; 31 seats needed for a majority
	Tripura District Map
CM before election; Manik Sarkar; CPI (M)	Elected CM ; Manik Sarkar; CPI (M)

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Tripura

The 2003 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place in a single phase on 26 February to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India. Counting of votes occurred on 1 March 2003. The results were ready within the day.^[1]

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), led by Manik Sarkar, won 38 seats and formed a Government in Tripura^[2]

Highlights[edit]

Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on February 26, 2003. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.

Participating Political Parties[edit]

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
6	AITC	All India Trinamool Congress
7	INPT	ndigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra
8	RSP	Revolutionary Socialist Party
State Parties - Other States
9	CPI(ML)(L)	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) (Liberation)
10	FBL	All India Forward Bloc
11	JD(U)	Janata Dal (United)
Registered(Unrecognised ) Parties
12	AMB	Amra Bangalee
13	LJNSP	Lok Jan Shakti Party
Independents
14	IND	Independent

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No. of Constituencies[edit]

Type of Constituencies	GEN	SC	ST	Total
No. of Constituencies	33	7	20	60

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Electors[edit]

	Men	Women	Total
No.of Electors	1,000,309	931,411	1,931,720
No.of Electors who Voted	809,492	710,925	1,520,417
Polling Percentage	80.92%	76.33%	78.71%

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Performance of Women Candidates[edit]

	Men	Women	Total
No.of Contestants	235	19	254
Elected	58	02	60

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Results[edit]


Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	No. of Votes	% of Votes	1998 Seats
Bharatiya Janata Party	21	0	20,032	1.32%	0
Communist Party of India	2	1	23,443	1.54%	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	55	38	711,119	46.82%	38
Indian National Congress	42	13	498,749	32.84%	13
Nationalist Congress Party	12	0	4,553	0.30%	0
All India Trinamool Congress	18	0	6,493	0.43%	0
Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra	18	6	189,186	12.46%	4
Revolutionary Socialist Party	2	2	28,688	1.89%	2
Independents	52	0	12,788	0.84%	2
Total	254	60	1,518,789
Source: ECI^[7]

Constituency wise Winners[edit]

A.C 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)	Prakash Ch.Das	M	INC
4	Barjala	Dipak Kumar Roy	M	INC
5	Khayerpur	Pabitra Kar	M	CPM
6	Agartala	Sudip Roy Barman	M	INC
7	Ramnagar	Surajit Datta	M	INC
8	Town Bordowali	Ashok Kr, Bhattacharyya	M	INC
9	Banamalipur	Gopal Ch.Ray	M	INC
10	Majlishpur	Manik Dey	M	CPM
11	Mandaibazar (ST)	Manoranjan Debbarma	M	CPM
12	Takarjala (ST)	Rajeswar Debbarma	M	INPT
13	Pratapgarh (SC)	Anil Sarkar	M	CPM
14	Badharghat	Subrata Chakrabarty	M	CPM
15	Kamalasagar	Narayan Ch.Choudhury	M	CPM
16	Bishalgarh	Samir Ranjan Barman	M	INC
17	Golaghati (ST)	Ashok Debbarma	M	INC
18	Charilam (ST)	Narayan Rupini	M	CPM
19	Boxanagar	Sahid Choudhury	M	CPM
20	Nalchar (SC)	Sukumar Barman	M	CPM
21	Sonamura	Subal Rudra	M	CPM
22	Dhanpur	Manik Sarkar	M	CPM
23	Ramchandraghat (ST)	Padma Kumar Debbarma	F	CPM
24	Khowai	Samir Deb Sarkar	M	CPM
25	Asharambari (ST)	Sachindra Debbarma	M	CPM
26	Pramodnagar (ST)	Animesh Debbarma	M	INPT
27	Kalyanpur	Kajal Ch.Das	M	INC
28	Krishnapur (ST)	Khagendra Jamatia	M	CPM
29	Teliamura	Ashok Kumar Baidya	M	INC
30	Bagma (ST)	Gunapada Jamatia	M	CPM
31	Salgarh (SC)	Gopal Ch.Das	M	RSP
32	Radhakishorepur	Joy Gobinda Deb Roy	M	RSP
33	Matarbari	Madhab Ch.Saha	M	CPM
34	Kakraban	Keshab Majumder	M	CPM
35	Rajnagar (SC)	Sudhan Das	M	CPM
36	Belonia	Basudeb Majumder	M	CPM
37	Santirbazar (ST)	Manindra Reang	M	CPI
38	Hrishyamukh	Badal Choudhury	M	CPM
39	Jolaibari (ST)	Jashabir Tripura	M	CPM
40	Manu (ST)	Jitendra Choudhury	M	CPM
41	Sabroom	Gour Kanti Goswami	M	CPM
42	Ampinagar (ST)	Nagendra Jamatia	M	INPT
43	Birganj	Ranjit Debnath	M	CPM
44	Raima Valley (ST)	Rabindra Debbarma	M	INPT
45	Kamalpur	Bijoy Lakshmi Singha	F	CPM
46	Surma (SC)	Sudhir Das	M	CPM
47	Salema (ST)	Prasanta Debbarma	M	CPM
48	Kulai (ST)	Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl	M	INPT
49	Chhawmanu (ST)	Syamacharan Tripura	M	INPT
50	Pabiachhara (SC)	Bidhubhusan Malakar	M	CPM
51	Fatikroy	Bijoy Roy	M	CPM
52	Chandipur	Tapan Chakrabarty	M	CPM
53	Kailasahar	Birajit Sinha	M	INC
54	Kurti	Faizur Rohman	M	CPM
55	Kadamtala	Jyotirmoy Nath	M	INC
56	Dharmanagar	Amitabha Datta	M	CPM
57	Jubarajnagar	Ramendra Ch.Debnath	M	CPM
58	Pencharthal (ST)	Arun Kr,Chakma	M	CPM
59	Panisagar	Subodh Das	M	CPM
60	Kanchanpur (ST)	Rajendra Reang	M	CPM

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Government Formation[edit]

The 18 member Left Front ministry led by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, sworn in on 7 March 2003.^[9]

References[edit]

[1] "State Election Commission, Tripura".

[2] "Tripura 2003".

[3] "List of Participating Political Parties".

[4] "Constituencies-Tripura".

[5] "Total No.of Electors".

[6] "Performance of Women candidates Vs Men candidates".

[7] "Tripura Election Result 2003-ECI".

[8] "Detailed Result Tripura 2003".

[9] "State of Politics in Tripura".

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