1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

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1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
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  1962 21 Feb 1967 1972  

All 30 seats of the Legislative Assembly
16 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
  Two oxen variante.svg CPI(M) election symbol - Hammer Sickle and Star.svg
Leader Sachindra Lal Singh -
Party INC CPI(M)
Leader's seatAgartala Sadar II-
Last electionNo data availableNo data available
Seats won272
Seat changeNo data availableNo data available
Popular vote251,34593,739
Percentage57.95%21.61%

CM before election

Sachindra Lal Singh
INC

Elected CM

Sachindra Lal Singh
INC

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Tripura

Until 1972, Tripura was a Union Territory. [1] The 1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place on 21 February 1967 in a single phase to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 30 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India. [2]

Contents

Indian National Congress led by Sachindra Lal Singh, won 27 seats and formed a Government in Tripura union territory.

Highlights

Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on February 21, 1967. The election were held in a single phase for all the 30 assembly constituencies.

Participating Political Parties

NumPartytype AbbreviationParty
National Parties
1BJSBharatiya Jan Sangh
2CPICommunist Party of India
3CPMCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
4INCIndian National Congress
5SSPSanghata Socialist Party
Independents
6INDIndependent

[3]

No. of Constituencies

Type of ConstituenciesGENSCSTTotal
No. of Constituencies183930

[4]

Electors

MenWomenTotal
No.of Electors605,934
-
605,934
No.of Electors who Voted450,334
-
450,334
Polling Percentage74.32%
-
74.32%

[5]

Performance of Women Candidates

MenWomenTotal
No.of Contestants860187
Elected300030

[6]

Result

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PartySeats
Contested
Seats
Won
VotesVote %1963 Seats
Bharatiya Jana Sangh 501,5060.35%No data available
Communist Party of India 7134,5627.97%No data available
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 16293,73921.61%No data available
Indian National Congress 3027251,34557.95%No data available
Sanghata Socialist Party 10830.02%No data available
Independents 28052,45712.10%No data available
Total8730433,692
Source: ECI [7]

Results by constituency

  • Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituency [8]
Assembly ConstituencyTurnoutWinnerRunner UpMargin
#kNames%CandidatePartyVotes%CandidatePartyVotes%
1 Mohanpur 74.%Pram D. Ranjan Dasgupta INC 8,66655.27%N. Chakravorty CPI(M) 6,88243.89%1,784
2 Agartala Sadar I 76.68%B. B. Das INC 8,11760.38%M. K. Roy CPI(M) 3,46825.8%4,649
3 Agartala Sadar II 73.96%S. Singh INC 11,44564.42%S. R. Chanda CPI(M) 5,83732.85%5,608
4 Agartala Sadar III 75.57%T. M. D. Gupta INC 8,87257.18%S. S. Gupta Independent 5,28334.05%3,589
5 Agartala Town 73.11%K. Bhattacharjee INC 6,85354.26%A. Islam CPI 4,25033.65%2,603
6 Old Agartala 81.04%J. K. Majumder INC 8,67254.6%Sailesh Chandra Some Independent 7,21145.4%1,461
7 Uttar Debendranagar 75.32%A. D. Barma CPI(M) 10,55972.09%B. P. D. Barma INC 4,08827.91%6,471
8 Takarjala 67.79%M. D. Barma INC 6,94554.84%B. D. Barma Independent 5,72045.16%1,225
9 Bishalgarh 74.02%U. L. Singh INC 8,07255.59%B. M. Saha Independent 6,13642.26%1,936
10 Charilam 73.27% A. Debbarma CPI 7,23050.68%K. C. D. Barma INC 7,03749.32%193
11 Sonamura North 82.1%Debendra Kishore Chowdhury INC 8,80774.%D. C. S. Gupta Independent 2,43920.49%6,368
12 Sonamura South 83.28%B. Ali INC 7,88865.58%B. R. Pal Independent 4,14034.42%3,748
13 Salgarh 74.8%E. A. Chowdhury INC 8,42471.09%N. C. Ghose CPI(M) 2,33519.7%6,089
14 Radhakishorpur 72.54%N. K. Sarkar INC 10,87867.87%Sunil Krishna Das CPI 3,11719.45%7,761
15 Belonia 77.29%U. K. Roy INC 10,50260.05% Jitendra Lal Das CPI 6,69138.26%3,811
16 Muhuripur 73.%S. C. Chowdhury INC 11,58476.29%Hiura Aung Mog CPI 2,87518.93%8,709
17 Sabroom 77.56%A. Mag INC 11,63869.93%A. Mag CPI 4,64227.89%6,996
18 Birganj 64.36%B. B. Riyan INC 6,15255.49%R. K. D. Barma CPI(M) 4,34839.22%1,804
19 Dumburnagar 61.5%R. C. D. Rankhal INC 5,22156.72%S. D. Barma CPI(M) 3,98443.28%1,237
20 Teliamura 73.53%P. K. Das INC 11,55864.6%A. C. Sarker CPI(M) 5,43530.38%6,123
21 Kalyanpur 89.71%Bidya Chandra Debbarma CPI(M) 14,33062.57%N. K. D. Barma INC 8,57237.43%5,758
22 Khowai 85.14% S. C. Datta INC 10,96461.06%J. Bhattacharjee Independent 6,65037.03%4,314
23 Kamalpur 79.11%K. C. Das INC 10,14163.07%N. K. Namadas CPI(M) 5,93936.93%4,202
24 Kulaihower 58.9%G. Dewan INC 8,40657.05%D. D. Barma CPI(M) 6,32942.95%2,077
25 Fatikroy 69.68%Radhika Ranjan Gupta INC 7,75055.9%Rakhal Raj Kumar CPI 5,75741.52%1,993
26 Kailashahar 81.63%M. L. Bhowmik INC 8,19051.09%B. Majumder CPI(M) 7,84148.91%349
27 Dharmanagar South 74.81%M. Nath INC 8,35464.12%R. K. Nath CPI(M) 4,67435.88%3,680
28 Kanchanpur 57.06%R. P. Chowdhury INC 5,19264.63%Mandida Reang CPI(M) 2,48530.93%2,707
29 Dharmanagar North 73.85%B. B. Banerjee INC 6,46752.59%D. Chakraborty CPI(M) 3,43727.95%3,030
30 Kadamtala 68.91%A. Wazid INC 5,89047.35%S. D. Nath CPI(M) 5,85647.08%34

Government formation

Indian National Congress,(INC) won a majority of the 30 seats in the assembly. Sachindra Lal Singh of the INC continued as Chief Minister. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "43. India/Tripura (1949-present)". uca.edu.
  2. "Official Website of State Election Commission, Government of Tripura, India". sec.tripura.gov.in.
  3. "List of Participating Political Parties".
  4. "Constituencies-Tripura".
  5. "Total No.of Electors".
  6. "Performance of Women candidates Vs Men candidates".
  7. "1967 Tripura Election result".
  8. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Tripura" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (pdf) on 6 October 2010.