Patharkandi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Patharkandi Vidhan Sabha Constituency (Bengali: পাথারকান্দি বিধানসভা সমষ্টি) is one of the 126 state legislative assembly constituencies in Assam state in North Eastern India. It is also one of the 8 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Political Party		Tenure
2021	Krishnendu Paul		BJP	2016-Incumbent
2016
2011	Monilal Gowala		INC	2011-16
2006	Kartik Sena Sinha		BJP	2006-11
2001	Monilal Gowala		INC	2001-06
1996	Shukhendu Shekhar Dutta		BJP	1996-01
1991	Madhusudhan Tiwari			1991-96
1985	Monilal Gowala		INC	1985-91
1983	Moin Uddin		IND	1983-85
1978	Md Fokhrul Islam			1978-83
1972	Biswanath Upadhyaya		INC	1972-78
1967	Motilal Kanoo		IND	1967-72
1962	Ramdeb Malah		INC	1962-67
1957	Biswanath Upadhyaya		IND	1957-62
1951	Gopesh Namasudra		CPI	1951-57

Election results

2021 results

2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election : Patharkandi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Krishnendu Paul	74,846	49.66%	+11.73
	INC	Sachin Sahoo	70,379	46.70%	+20.58
	Independent	Shihab Uddin Ahmed	1,020	0.68%	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	1,288	0.85%	+0.02
Margin of victory			4,467	2.99%	-4.56
Turnout			149,419	78.51%	-0.68
	BJP hold		Swing	+11.73

2016 result

2016 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Patharkandi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Krishnendu Paul	46,544	37.93	+29.08
	[[All India United Democratic Front|Template:All India United Democratic Front/meta/shortname]]	Dr. Debendra Kumar Sinha	37,276	30.38	-8.85
	INC	Moni Lal Gowala	32,048	26.12	-16.14
	CPI (M)	Kripesh Ranjan Dasgupta	1,638	1.33	-4.53
	Independent	Kabir Ahmed	892	0.72	N/A
	Independent	Rahimuddin Ahmed	743	0.60	N/A
	SP	Misbaqueuddin	599	0.48	-0.09
	SUCI(C)	Debangshu Nath	509	0.41	-0.31
	Independent	Asaduddin Ahmed	501	0.40	N/A
	Independent	Nitai Dey	495	0.40	N/A
	Independent	Nihar Ranjan Deb Nath	419	0.34	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	1,030	0.83	N/A
Majority			9,268	7.55	+4.52
Turnout			1,22,694	79.19	+3.18
Registered electors			1,54,924
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2011 result

2011 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Patharkandi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Monilal Gowala	44,986	42.26	+19.01
	[[All India United Democratic Front|Template:All India United Democratic Front/meta/shortname]]	Kartik Sena Sinha	41,762	39.23	+4.83
	BJP	Sukhendu Shekhar Dutta	9,424	8.85	-28.11
	CPI (M)	Kripesh Ranjan Dasgupta	6,234	5.86	N/A
	Independent	Nikhil Kumar Sen	1,417	1.33	N/A
	AITC	Rupam Nandi Purkayastha	1,267	1.19	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Debangshu Nath	764	0.72	N/A
	SP	Mainuddin Choudhury	602	0.57	N/A
Majority			3,224	3.03	+0.47
Turnout			1,06,456	76.01	+2.72
Registered electors			1,40,057
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

2006 result

Assam Legislative Assembly election, 2006: Patharkandi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kartik Sena Sinha	37,220	36.96
	[[All India United Democratic Front|Template:All India United Democratic Front/meta/shortname]]	K. M. Baharul Islam	34,640	34.40
	INC	Monilal Gowala	23,410	23.25
	Independent	Debangshu Nath	1,601	1.59
	[[Janata Dal (Secular)|Template:Janata Dal (Secular)/meta/shortname]]	Moinul Haque	1,442	1.43
	[[Asom Gana Parishad|Template:Asom Gana Parishad/meta/shortname]]	Nandeswar Mukherjee	899	0.89
	Independent	Abdul Hamid	866	0.86
	Independent	Tajuddin	622	0.62
Majority			2,580	2.56
Turnout			1,00,700	73.29
Registered electors			1,37,403
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

See also

• Patharkandi
• List of constituencies of the Assam Legislative Assembly