Jorhat (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Jorhat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is one of the 126 assembly constituencies of Assam Legislative Assembly. Jorhat forms part of the Jorhat Lok Sabha constituency

Members of Legislative Assembly

• 1952: Debeswar Sarmah, Indian National Congress
• 1957: Mahidhar Pegu, Indian National Congress
• 1962: Dulal Chandra Barua, Independent
• 1967: J. Saikia, Indian National Congress
• 1972: Bijoy Krishna Handique, Indian National Congress
• 1978: Dulal Chandra Barua, Janata Party
• 1983: Dinanath Rajkhowa, Indian National Congress
• 1985: Abhijit Sarmah, Independent
• 1991: Hitendra Nath Goswami, Asom Gana Parishad
• 1996: Hitendra Nath Goswami, Asom Gana Parishad
• 2001: Hitendra Nath Goswami, Asom Gana Parishad
• 2006: Rana Goswami, Indian National Congress
• 2011: Rana Goswami, Indian National Congress
• 2016: Hitendra Nath Goswami, Bharatiya Janata Party
• 2021: Hitendra Nath Goswami, Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021 result

2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Jorhat

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Hitendra Nath Goswami	68,321	48.84	-4.46
	INC	Rana Goswami	61,833	44.20	1.72
	[[Assam Jatiya Parishad|Template:Assam Jatiya Parishad/meta/shortname]]	Nirod Changkakoti	6,925	4.95	4.95
	Independent	Ranjit Baruah	1,100	0.79
	NOTA	None of the above	1,717	1.23	0.33
Majority			6,488	4.64	-5.78
Turnout			1,39,896	75.29	-4.66
Registered electors			1,85,804
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2016 result

2016 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Jorhat

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Hitendra Nath Goswami	69,209	52.90
	INC	Rana Goswami	55,571	42.48
	CPI (M)	Nirmal Gogoi	1,548	1.18
	LDP	Prodyut Bora	1,372	1.04
	[[All India United Democratic Front|Template:All India United Democratic Front/meta/shortname]]	Sanjeev Rajkhowa	842	0.64
	Independent	Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta	635	0.48
	Independent	Jiban Chandra Sarmah	448	0.34
	NOTA	None of the above	1,184	0.90
Majority			13,638	10.42
Turnout			1,30,809	79.95
Registered electors			1,63,602
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2011

2011 Assam Legislative Assembly election:Jorhat

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Rana Goswami	68049	64.85
	[[Asom Gana Parishad|Template:Asom Gana Parishad/meta/shortname]]	Hitendra Nath Goswami	30079	28.67
	BJP	Karabi Chakraborty	5354	5.1
	AITC	Sarifun Nisha	1449	1.38
Majority			37970
Turnout			104391
Registered electors			133959
	INC hold		Swing	{{{swing}}}