Silchar (Lok Sabha constituency)
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Silchar | |
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Lok Sabha Constituency | |
Incumbent | Dr. Rajdeep Roy |
Parliamentary Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Elected Year | 2019 |
Constituency Details | |
Established | 1952 |
Reservation | None |
State | Assam |
Total Electors | 10,60,175 |
Assembly Constituencies | 7 |
Silchar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam state in north-eastern India. From 1951 to 1971, the area under it was referred as Cachar constituency. The constituency covers the entirety of Cachar district in the Barak Valley.
Vidhan Sabha segments[edit]
Silchar Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:[1]
Constituency number | Name | Reserved for (SC/ST/None) | District | Party | MLA |
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9 | Silchar | None | Cachar | Dipayan Chakraborty | |
10 | Sonai | None | Cachar | Karim Uddin Barbhuiya | |
11 | Dholai | SC | Cachar | Parimal Suklabaidya | |
12 | Udharbond | None | Cachar | Mihir Kanti Shome | |
13 | Lakhipur | None | Cachar | BJP | Kaushik Rai |
14 | Barkhola | None | Cachar | Misbahul Islam Laskar | |
15 | Katigorah | None | Cachar | Khalil Uddin Mazumder |
Members of Lok Sabha[edit]
Year | Winner[2] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1952 (Cachar seat no.1) | Nibaran Chandra Laskar | Indian National Congress | |
1952(Cachar seat no.2) | Suresh Chandra Deb | ||
1957(Cachar) | Nibaran Chandra Laskar | ||
1962 (Cachar) | Jyotsna Chanda | ||
1967 (Cachar) | |||
1971 (Cachar) | |||
1977 (New name : Silchar) | Rashida Haque Choudhury | ||
1980 | Santosh Mohan Dev | ||
1984 | |||
1989 | Elections not held in Assam | ||
1991 | Kabindra Purkayastha | ||
1996 | Santosh Mohan Dev | Indian National Congress | |
1998 | Kabindra Purkayastha | ||
1999 | Santosh Mohan Dev | Indian National Congress | |
2004 | |||
2009 | Kabindra Purkayastha | ||
2014 | Sushmita Dev | Indian National Congress | |
2019 | Dr. Rajdeep Roy |
Election Results[edit]
Lok Sabha Elections 2019[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Dr. Rajdeep Roy | 4,99,414 | 52.59 | +14.93 | |
INC | Sushmita Dev | 4,17,818 | 43.99 | +1.92 | |
NOTA | None of the Above | 8,547 | 0.90 | +0.36 | |
Majority | 81,596 | 8.60 | +4.19 | ||
Turnout | 9,50,690 | 79.51 | +4.06 | ||
BJP gain from INC | Swing | +6.50 |
General elections 2014[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Sushmita Dev | 3,36,451 | 42.07 | +13.42 | |
BJP | Kabindra Purkayastha | 3,01,210 | 37.66 | +2.29 | |
[[All India United Democratic Front|Template:All India United Democratic Front/meta/shortname]] | Kutub Ahmed Mazumder | 85,530 | 10.69 | -18.66 | |
NOTA | None of the above | 4,310 | 0.54 | --- | |
Majority | 35,241 | 4.41 | 1.61 | ||
Turnout | 8,00,058 | 75.46 | |||
INC gain from BJP | Swing |
Lok Sabha elections 1971[edit]
- Jyotsna Chanda (INC) : 100,798 votes [5]
- A. F. Golam Osmani (IND) : 37,794
Lok Sabha elections 1952[edit]
- Two candidates elected from this constituency, then called 'Cachar Lushal Hill'.
- Member One : Laskar, Nibaran Chandra (INC) : 192847 votes, defeated Ghose, Satyendra Kishore (KMPP) : 84160 votes
- Member Two : Deb, Suresh Chandra (INC) : 182,692 votes, defeated Patni, Nitai Chand (KMPP) : 71,704 votes
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "List of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Assam. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-05-04. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
- ↑ "List of winner/current and runner up MPs Silchar Parliamentary Constituency". Assam. elections.in.
- ↑ 2019 India General election results Silchar election.in
- ↑ India General election 2014 results Silchar election.in
- ↑ "1971 India General (5th Lok Sabha) Elections Results".