Assam Legislative Assembly election, 2016

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Assam Legislative Assembly election, 2016
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All 126 seats in the Legislature of Assam
64 seats needed for a majority
Turnout84.72%
 Majority partyMinority partyThird party
  Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal.jpg Tarun Gogoi - Kolkata 2013-02-10 4891 Cropped.JPG M-badruddin-ajmal.JPG
Leader Sarbananda Sonowal Tarun Gogoi Badruddin Ajmal
Party BJP INC AIUDF
Alliance NDA UPA Grand Alliance
Leader since201119762005
Leader's seat Majuli Titabar Salmara South
(lost)
Last election267818
Seats before277918
Seats won862613
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 60Decrease2.svg 53Decrease2.svg 5
Popular vote7,035,724
(BJP+AGP+BPF)		5,238,655
(INC only)		2,207,945
(AIUDF only)
Percentage41.931.013.0
Chief Minister before election

Tarun Gogoi
INC

Elected Chief Minister

Sarbananda Sonowal
BJP

The Assam Legislative Assembly Election of 2016 was held in two phases, on 4 and 11 April 2016, to elect members of the 126 constituencies in Assam, a state in North-eastern India. [1] The overall voter turnout was 84.72%, which set a new record for Assam. [2] [3] The turnout was an increase from the 2011 Assembly election figure of 75%. [4]

Assam Legislative Assembly

The Assam Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Assam. It is housed in Dispur, the capital of Assam, geographically situated in present Western Assam region. The Legislative Assembly comprises 126 Members of Legislative Assembly, directly elected from single-seat constituencies. Its term is five years, unless sooner dissolved.

Contents

The counting of votes and results declaration was completed on 19 May 2016. The election brought a change of power as the Indian National Congress (INC), which had formed the government under Tarun Gogoi since 2001, lost its majority to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, lit "Indian People's Party") led by Sarbananda Sonowal.

Indian National Congress Major political party in India

The Indian National Congress(pronunciation ) is a broadly based political party in India. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. From the late 19th century, and especially after 1920, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement. Congress led India to independence from Great Britain, and powerfully influenced other anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire.

Tarun Gogoi former Chief Minister of the state of Assam in India

Tarun Gogoi is an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Assam from 2001 to 2016. He is a member of the Indian National Congress and led the party to a record three consecutive electoral victories in Assam. He completed 15 consecutive years as Chief Minister of Assam on 18 May 2016.

Bharatiya Janata Party Major right-wing political party in India

The Bharatiya Janata Party is one of the two major political parties in India, along with the Indian National Congress. As of 2018, it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament and state assemblies, and it is the world's largest party in terms of primary membership. BJP is a right-wing party, and its policy has historically reflected Hindu-nationalist positions. It has close ideological and organisational links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Background

The prior Assam assembly ended on 5 June 2016. [5] The full bench of the Election Commission headed by Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi visited Assam on 21 December 2015. [6] Voter-verified paper audit trails were introduced in 10 constituencies (approximately 2400 polling booths) in Assam assembly polls. [7] These included the four assembly constituencies in Kamrup Metro district: Dispur, Jalukbari, Gauhati East and Gauhati West. [8] 250 polling stations were made model polling stations. [9]

Election Commission of India election regulatory body of India

The Election Commission of India is an autonomous constitutional authority responsible for administering election processes in India. The body administers elections to the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and state Legislative Assemblies and Legislative Council in India, and the offices of the President and Vice President in the country. The Election Commission operates under the authority of Constitution per Article 324, and subsequently enacted Representation of the People Act. The commission has the powers under the Constitution, to act in an appropriate manner when the enacted laws make insufficient provisions to deal with a given situation in the conduct of an election. Being a constitutional authority, Election Commission is amongst the few institutions which function with both autonomy and freedom, along with the country’s higher judiciary, the Union Public Service Commission and the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi 20th Chief Election commissioner of India

Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi served as 20th Chief Election Commissioner of India. He is a retired I.A.S. officer of 1976 batch from the Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) or verifiable paper record (VPR) is a method of providing feedback to voters using a ballotless voting system. A VVPAT is intended as an independent verification system for voting machines designed to allow voters to verify that their vote was cast correctly, to detect possible election fraud or malfunction, and to provide a means to audit the stored electronic results. It contains the name of the candidate and symbol of the party/individual candidate.

Electoral process

An update to the National Register of Citizens of India (NRC) was to be completed by 1 January 2016, monitored by the Supreme Court of India. [10] [11] By September 2015, the first phase was completed; over 66.90 lakh (6,690,000) households submitted forms linking themselves to either the NRC of 1951 or any of the electoral rolls prior to 24 March 1971. It was to be followed by verifying the applications.

National Register of Citizens of India

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a register containing names of all genuine Indian citizens residing in Assam. The register was first prepared after the 1951, Census of India.

Supreme Court of India Judicial body

The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial court and the final court of appeal under the Constitution of India, the highest constitutional court, with the power of judicial review. Consisting of the Chief Justice of India and a maximum of 31 judges, it has extensive powers in the form of original, appellate and advisory jurisdictions.

The effort was intended to detect and deport the illegal migrants who came from neighbouring Bangladesh on or after 25 March 1971. [12] Since 1985, Foreigners' Tribunals have declared over 38,000 persons in Assam as illegal migrants. Nearly 1.5 lakh (150,000) names in Assam's electoral rolls carry the prefix "D" for "Doubtful" citizenship status. [13] The Supreme Court directed the Assam Government to complete the final NRC by 1 March 2016. [14] [15] In May 2015, the historic India–Bangladesh land swap deal was signed, exchanging long-standing territorial enclaves and simplifying the border. [16]

India–Bangladesh enclaves enclaves along the Bangladesh–India border

The India–Bangladesh enclaves, also known as the chitmahals and sometimes called pasha enclaves, were the enclaves along the Bangladesh–India border, in Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam and Meghalaya. Within the main body of Bangladesh were 102 enclaves of Indian territory, which in turn contained 21 Bangladeshi counter-enclaves, one of which contained an Indian counter-counter-enclave – the world's only third-order enclave. Within the Indian mainland were 71 Bangladeshi enclaves, containing 3 Indian counter-enclaves. A joint census in 2010 found 51,549 people residing in these enclaves: 37,334 in Indian enclaves within Bangladesh and 14,215 in Bangladeshi enclaves within India.

According to the draft electoral rolls published in October 2015, the total number of voters in Assam stand at 1.92 crore (19.2 million). The Election Commission said that final electoral rolls would be published by 11 January 2016.

Religion data

According to the 2011 census, 61.5% were Hindus, 34.22% were Muslims. [17] [18] Christian minorities (3.7%) are mostly among some of the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SC/ST) population. [19] The Scheduled Tribe population (both ST(Plains) and ST(Hills) combined) in Assam is around 13% of which the Bodo people(an indigenous Assamese community) account for 40% and the Scheduled Caste population is about 7.4% of which the Kaibarta and Jal Keot(both indigenous Assamese communities) combined account for about 36%. [20]

The 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved collection of information about all buildings. Information for National Population Register was also collected in the first phase, which will be used to issue a 12-digit unique identification number to all registered Indian residents by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). The second population enumeration phase was conducted between 9 and 28 February 2011. Census has been conducted in India since 1872 and 2011 marks the first time biometric information was collected. According to the provisional reports released on 31 March 2011, the Indian population increased to 1.21 billion with a decadal growth of 17.70%. Adult literacy rate increased to 74.04% with a decadal growth of 9.21%. The motto of the census was 'Our Census, Our future'.

Bodo people ethnic and linguistic group in Northeast India

The Bodos are an ethnolinguistic group of northwest Assam in the northeast part of India. They are part of the Bodo-Kachari ethnolinguistic groups found today in Nepal, Bangladesh and clustered more strongly in Assam in India. They speak the Bodo language, which is recognized as one of twenty-two scheduled languages in the Indian Constitution. This group is politically active and is dominant in the BTAD districts of Assam, which is a group of autonomous districts under Bodo Territorial Council.

Jalia Kaibarta

Jalia Kaibarta (Keot) , is an aboriginal tribe which was later converted into a Hindu caste or community by Sanskritisation, traditionally engaged in the occupation of fishing and originally belongs to Assam, North Bengal, Odisha and eastern Bihar along with Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and other Southeast Asian countries. The Kaibartas were initially considered a single tribe divided into two groups, Jaliya and Haliya in Bengal. Jaliya Kaibartas are categorized as a Scheduled Caste, though the Haliya Kaibartas are not. In Assam they are also known as the Keots, and are considered a single community. They are recognized as Schedule Caste in Assam under the name Jal Keot or Kaibartta/Kaivartta. The Kaivartta or Keots of Assam as they are commonly known are totally different from the Jaliya Kaibarta of Bengal.

Out of 32 districts of Assam, 11 are Muslim majority according to the 2011 census. [21] The districts are Dhubri, Goalpara, Barpeta, Morigaon, Nagaon, Hojai, Karimganj, South Salmara–Mankachar, Hailakandi, Darrang and Bongaigaon. [22] [23] [24] Bodos have a population share of 12% and the Kaibarta and Jal Keot have a total share of about 10% (all of which are a part of the indigenous Assamese community). [25] The share of the indigenous Assamese communities in Assam was about 47% in the 2001 census which has reduced to about 40-45% in 2016 as predicted by experts. Indigenous Assamese Muslims, also known as Khilonjia Muslims, include ethnic groups such as Goria and Moria, and are estimated to be around 40 lakhs in population out of a total 1 crore (4 million out of 10 million) Muslims in Assam. [26]

Campaign

In November 2015, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah held a party workers' rally in Dibrugarh in Upper Assam Division. [27] Union Minister and Lakhimpur MP Sarbananda Sonowal was made Assam BJP chief to head their election committee. [28] Sonowal found the situation of illegal immigration from Bangladesh "very alarming". [29] (Sonowal had led an effort to have the controversial Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunal) (IMDT) Act struck down by the Supreme court of India in December 2006, making deportations easier.) [30] Himanta Biswa Sarma, a state Congress heavyweight joined BJP. [31] BJP has aimed for 'Mission 84' in Assam. [32] [33] BJP led in 69 assembly constituencies in the Lok Sabha elections 2014 by winning 7 Lok Sabha seats in Assam. [34] For the first time, the BJP had contested the Bodoland Territorial Council elections, and won a seat. [35]

In December 2015, Indian National Congress (INC) Vice-President Rahul Gandhi visited Assam where he accused Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS, lit "National Volunteer Organisation") workers of not letting him enter Barpeta Satra temple in Barpeta district. [36] RSS, a right-wing Hindu-nationalist paramilitary group widely regarded as the parent organisation of BJP, denied the charge. Gandhi announced that Tarun Gogoi would be the chief minister candidate of INC. [37] Demand was growing for giving scheduled tribe (ST) status to six communities – Tai Ahoms, Koch Rajbongshis, Moran, Motok, Sootea and 36 tea tribes (the descendants of tea garden workers settled by British in the state from Chotanagpur plateau in the mid-19th century). [38] [39]

In November 2015, nine members of the legislative assembly left the INC and joined BJP. [40] Assam Governor PB Acharya made a controversial statement that Hindustan is only for Hindus. [41] Ex-United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) rebels announced that they would contest Assam polls. [42] On 26 December 2015, BJP's Assam unit launched its 'Assam Nirman' initiative, seeking public opinion to prepare a vision document for development in Assam. [43]

On 28 December 2015, Smriti Irani visited Barak Valley in Assam and accused the Tarun Gogoi government of not doing enough for women's safety. [44] [45] Gogoi accused the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government of stalling tactics on granting citizenship to refugees from Bangladesh, claiming that they had been persecuted there. [46] Gogoi said external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj met with businessmen in Assam during her visit instead of talking about the problems and issues confronting the state. [47]

In January 2016, the Gogoi government announced rice prices at Rs 2 per kilogramme and to build all-religion bhawans . [48] [49] The Assam INC President ruled-out any alliance with All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) or Asom Gana Parishad (AGP, lit "Assam Peoples Association") parties. [50] [51] Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh visited Assam on 3 January 2016 and said the fencing along the Indo-Bangladesh border would be completed by December 2016. [52] [53] A delegation of the All Assam Students Union (AASU) met Singh and visited the border areas. Rajnath Singh visited Dhubri district and expressed dissatisfaction with the fencing work there. He said that a feasibility study and two pilot projects were underway in the Dhubri sector of the riverine border. [54] Gogoi said that 97.32% of the border fencing work in Karimganj and Dhubri was complete and asked the Central Government to take up a pilot project involving technological solutions to plug the riverine border. [55] [56]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a rally in Kokrajhar on 19 January 2016, after his visit to Sikkim on 18 January 2016. [57] Modi formally announced the alliance of Bodoland People's Front (BPF) with BJP in Assam. [58]

On 28 January, the BJP Parliamentary Board announced Sarbananda Sonowal as their Chief Ministerial candidate of Assam. [59] Union minister of state for commerce and industry Nirmala Sitharaman accused Gogoi of spreading misinformation on the suspension of the North East Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy (NEIIPP), 2007. [60] Ethnic groups of Assam sought ULFA pro-talks faction headed by founding general secretary Anup Chetia to help them receive ST designation. [61] [62]

Modi arrived on 5 February to first attend the 85th conference of the Srimanta Sankaradeva Sangha at the erstwhile Ahom capital of Sivasagar. Then he addressed a rally at Moran. [63] [64] [65] Modi dedicated the Assam gas cracker project at Dibrugarh [66] and inaugurated the 2016 South Asian Games in Guwahati on 5 February. [67]

On 2 March, the BJP announced its alliance with AGP. [68] AGP was given 24 seats. [69] Gogoi announced a special package of Rs 3,000 cr (Rs 30 billion) for Barak Valley. [70] Gandhi visited Assam for two days, 4–5 March 2016, and addressed public meetings in Silchar and Nagaon. [71] On 6 March 2016, INC allied with Bodo-heartland-based United People's Party in a strategy to counter BJP's alliance with BPF. [72]

On 10 March, BJP declared candidates for the first phase of Assam elections. [73] Out of 126 Assembly constituencies, BJP contested 84 constituencies and left 42 to its four National Democratic Alliance (NDA) allies: AGP (24), BPF (16), Rabha Jatiya Aikya Manch (1) and Tiwa Jatiya Aikya Manch (1). BJP gave tickets to two ex-millitants including Bhaskar Sarma (who was accused of secret killings). On 16 March 2016, Sarbananda Sonowal filed his nomination for the Majuli (ST) assembly seat. [74] [75] Modi addressed a rally in Majuli on 23 March 2016. [76] INC released its first list of 65 candidates on 15 March 2016; [77] the second list of 57 candidates was announced on 21 March 2016. [78] [79] INC contested 122 seats while its ally United People's Party contested the remaining 4 seats. [80] BJP's Himanta Biswa Sarma filed nomination papers from Jalukbari on 21 March 2016. [81] AIUDF contested around 76 seats while its allies in Assam – Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Janata Dal (United) (JD[U]) – contest 12 seats each. [82] AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal ran for South Salmara seat, while Gogoi ran for the Titabar seat against BJP MP Kamakhya Prasad Tasa. [83] [84]

On 12 February 2016, the Election Commission of India announced that 10 assembly constituencies in Assam will have 2300 voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines attached along with electronic voting machines (EVMs). [85]

Schedule

The dates of the election were announced on 4 March 2016. (In previous elections, all 140 constituencies went to polls on the same day.) [86]

The polling was held in two phases, on 4 and 11 April 2016. The counting was scheduled on 19 May 2016 for both phases. [87]

Schedule of polling and results [87]
Phase 14 April 2016
Phase 211 April 2016
Counting of votes and result19 May 2016
Assembly constituencies of Assam having VVPAT facility with EVMs [87]
SilcharDhubriBongaigaon
Goalpara EastJalukbari Dispur
Gauhati East Guahati West Tezpur
Jorhat

Opinion polls

When conductedRefPolling organisation/AgencySample size
INC BJP+ AIUDF Other
April 2016 [88] India TV-C VoterNA53
55
12
6
March 2016 [89] Nielsen NA36
78
10
2
March 2016 [90] AVCNA40
48-54
25
0
January 2016 [91] [92] [93] India TV-C-VoterNA44
57
19
6

Exit polls

AgencyINC+BJP+AIUDFOthersRef. [94]
News Nation47-5163-677-11NA [95]
C Voter41571810 [96]
Chanakya27909NA [96]
ABP Nielsen3381102 [96]
NDTV Poll of Polls3773124 [96]

Voting

Voter turnout was 84.72%. [97] 87.03% polling was recorded in the second phase, the highest in Assam's history. [98] [99] One person was killed by police in Assam. [100] 189 EVMs were replaced in the final phase due to technical issues. [101] A total of 1,064 candidates contested the elections – 122 from INC, 89 from BJP, 74 from AIUDF, 30 from AGP, 13 from the BPF, 15 from CPI, 19 from CPM, 205 others and 497 Independents. The total number of polling stations in Assam was 24,890, spread across 50 election districts.

Result

FlagPartyAllianceContestedWon+/-Votes%
  BJP-Logo-Photos.jpg Bharatiya Janata Party NDA8960Increase2.svg554,992,18529.5
  Flag of Asom Gana Parishad.svg Asom Gana Parishad NDA3014Increase2.svg51,377,4828.1
  BPF-Flag.svg Bodoland People's Front NDA1312Steady2.svg666,0573.9
Rabha Jatiya Aikya ManchNDA10Steady2.svg
Tiwa Jatiya Aikya ManchNDA10Steady2.svg
  Flag of the Indian National Congress.svg Indian National Congress UPA126Decrease2.svg535,238,65531.0
United People's PartyUPA40Steady2.svg
  AIUDF-flag.svg All India United Democratic Front G.A7413Decrease2.svg52,207,94513.0
  RJD Flag.svg Rashtriya Janata Dal G.A120Steady2.svg
  Janata Dal (United) Flag.jpg Janata Dal (United) G.A120Steady2.svg
  Cpim party symbol.svg Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left190Steady2.svg93,5080.6
  CPI-banner.svg Communist Party of India Left150Steady2.svg37,2430.2
  Independents 1Decrease2.svg21,867,53211.0
Total126

Victorious candidates

Sl NoConstituency
Name		Constituency
Number		Member of Legislative AssemblyPolitical Party
1Abhayapuri North34Abdul Hai Nagori Indian National Congress
2Abhayapuri South35 Ananta Kumar Malo All India United Democratic Front
3Algapur8 Nizam Uddin Choudhury All India United Democratic Front
4Amguri103 Prodip Hazarika Asom Gana Parishad
5Badarpur5Jamal Uddin AhmedIndian National Congress
6Baghbor45Sherman Ali AhmedIndian National Congress
7Baithalangso20 Mansing Rongpi Indian National Congress
8Barama62 Maneswar Brahma Bodoland People's Front
9Barchalla72 Ganesh Kumar Limbu Bharatiya Janata Party
10Barhampur87 Prafulla Kumar Mahanta Asom Gana Parishad
11Barkhetry60 Narayan Deka Bharatiya Janata Party
12Barkhola14 Kishor Nath Bharatiya Janata Party
13Barpeta43 Gunindra Nath Das Asom Gana Parishad
14Batadroba84 Angoorlata Deka Bharatiya Janata Party
15Behali77 Ranjit Dutta Bharatiya Janata Party
16Bhabanipur41 Abul Kalam Azad All India United Democratic Front
17Bihpuria109 Debananda Hazarika Bharatiya Janata Party
18Bijni33 Kamal Singh Narzary Bodoland People's Front
19Bilasipara East27 Ashok Kumar Singhi Bharatiya Janata Party
20Bilasipara West26 Hafiz Bashir Ahmed All India United Democratic Front
21Biswanath76 Promod Borthakur Bharatiya Janata Party
22Bokajan17 Numal Momin Bharatiya Janata Party
23Bokakhat93 Atul Bora Asom Gana Parishad
24Boko SC48 Nandita Das Indian National Congress
25Bongaigaon32 Phani Bhusan Choudhury Asom Gana Parishad
26Chabua121 Binod Hazarika Bharatiya Janata Party
27Chapaguri63 Thaneswar Basumatary Bodoland People's Front
28Chaygaon49Rekibuddin AhmedIndian National Congress
29Chenga47Sukur Ali AhmedIndian National Congress
30Dalgaon68Ilias AliIndian National Congress
31Dergaon97 Bhabendra Nath Bharali Asom Gana Parishad
32Dhakuakhana112 Naba Kumar Doley Bharatiya Janata Party
33Dharmapur61 Chandra Mohan Patowary Bharatiya Janata Party
34Dhekiajuli71 Ashok Singhal Bharatiya Janata Party
35Dhemaji113 Dr Ranuj Pegu Bharatiya Janata Party
36Dhing83 Aminul Islam All India United Democratic Front
37Dholai11 Parimal Suklabaidya Bharatiya Janata Party
38Dhubri23 Najrul Hoque All India United Democratic Front
39Dibrugarh116 Prasanta Phukan Bharatiya Janata Party
40Digboi123 Suren Phukan Bharatiya Janata Party
41Diphu19 Sum Ronghang Bharatiya Janata Party
42Dispur52 Atul Bora Bharatiya Janata Party
43Doom dooma125Durga BhumijIndian National Congress
44Dudhnai36 Dipak Rabha Bharatiya Janata Party
45Duliajan118 Terash Gowalla Bharatiya Janata Party
46Gauhati East53 Siddhartha Bhattacharya Bharatiya Janata Party
47Gauhati West54 Ramendra Narayan Kalita Asom Gana Parishad
48Gauripur24 Nijanur Rahman All India United Democratic Front
49Goalpara East37Abdul Kalam Rasheed AlamIndian National Congress
50Goalpara West38Abdur Rasheed MandalIndian National Congress
51Gohpur78 Utpal Borah Bharatiya Janata Party
52Golaghat95Ajanta NeogIndian National Congress
53Golakganj25 Ashwini Roy Sarkar Bharatiya Janata Party
54Gossaigaon28 Majendra Narzary Bodoland People's Front
55Haflong16 Bir Bhadra Hagjer Bharatiya Janata Party
56Hailakandi6 Anwar Hussain Laskar All India United Democratic Front
57Hajo55 Suman Haripriya Bharatiya Janata Party
58Hojai91 Shiladitya Dev Bharatiya Janata Party
59Howraghat18 Joyram Engleng Bharatiya Janata Party
60Jagiroad79 Pijush Hazarika Bharatiya Janata Party
61Jaleswar39 Sahab Uddin Ahmed All India United Democratic Front
62Jalukbari51 Himanta Biswa Sarma Bharatiya Janata Party
63Jamunamukh90 Abdur Rahim Ajmal All India United Democratic Front
64Jania44Abdul KhalequeIndian National Congress
65Jonai114 Bhubon Pegu Independent
66Jorhat98 Hitendra Nath Goswami Bharatiya Janata Party
67Kalaigaon65 Maheswar Baro Bodoland People's Front
68Kaliabor89 Keshab Mahanta Asom Gana Parishad
69Kamalpur56 Satyabrat Kalita Asom Gana Parishad
70Karimganj North3Kamalakhya Dey PurkayasthaIndian National Congress
71Karimganj South4 Aziz Ahmed Khan All India United Democratic Front
72Katigorah15 Amar Chand Jain Bharatiya Janata Party
73Katlicherra7 Suzam Uddin Laskar All India United Democratic Front
74Khumtai96 Mrinal Saikia Bharatiya Janata Party
75Kokrajhar East30 Pramila Rani Brahma Bodoland Peoples Front
76Kokrajhar West29 Rabiram Narzary Bodoland People's Front
77Laharighat81Dr. Nazrul IslamIndian National Congress
78Lahowal117 Rituparna Baruah Bharatiya Janata Party
79Lakhimpur111 Utpal Dutta Asom Gana Parishad
80Lakhipur13Rajdeep GoalaIndian National Congress
81Lumding92 Sibu Misra Bharatiya Janata Party
82Mahmara105 Jogen Mohan Bharatiya Janata Party
83Majbat70 Charan Boro Bodoland People's Front
84Majuli99 Sarbananda Sonowal Bharatiya Janata Party
85Mangaldoi67 Gurujyoti Das Bharatiya Janata Party
86Mankachar21Motiur Rohman MondalIndian National Congress
87Margherita124 Bhaskar Sharma Bharatiya Janata Party
88Mariani101Rupjyoti KurmiIndian National Congress
89Marigaon80 Rama Kanta Dewri Bharatiya Janata Party
90Moran115 Chakradhar Gogoi Bharatiya Janata Party
91Naharkatia120 Naren Sonowal Asom Gana Parishad
92Nalbari59 Ashok Sarma Bharatiya Janata Party
93Naoboicha110 Mamun Imdadul Haque Chawdhury All India United Democratic Front
94Nazira104 Debabrata Saikia Indian National Congress
95Nowgong86 Rupak Sarmah Bharatiya Janata Party
96Palasbari50 Pranab Kalita Bharatiya Janata Party
97Panery64 Kamali Basumatari Bodoland People's Front
98Patacharkuchi42 Pabindra Deka Asom Gana Parishad
99Patharkandi2 Krishnendu Paul Bharatiya Janata Party
100Raha82 Dimbeswar Das Bharatiya Janata Party
101Rangapara74 Pallab Lochan Das Bharatiya Janata Party
102Rangia57 Bhabesh Kalita Bharatiya Janata Party
103Ratabari1 Kripanath Mallah Bharatiya Janata Party
104Rupohihat85Nurul HudaIndian National Congress
105Sadiya126 Bolin Chetia Bharatiya Janata Party
106Salmara South22Wazed Ali ChoudhuryIndian National Congress
107Samaguri88Rakibul HussainIndian National Congress
108Sarukhetri46Jakir Hussain SikdarIndian National Congress
109Sarupathar94Roselina TirkeyIndian National Congress
110Sibsagar108 Pranab Kumar Gogoi Indian National Congress
111Sidli31 Chandan Brahma Bodoland People's Front
112Silchar9 Dilip Kumar Paul Bharatiya Janata Party
113Sipajhar66 Binanda Kumar Saikia Bharatiya Janata Party
114Sonai10 Aminul Haque Laskar Bharatiya Janata Party
115Sonari106 Topon Kumar Gogoi Bharatiya Janata Party
116Sootea75 Padma Hazarika Bharatiya Janata Party
117Sorbhog40 Ranjit Kumar Das Bharatiya Janata Party
118Tamulpur58 Emmanuel Mosahary Bodoland People's Front
119Teok102 Renupoma Rajkhowa Asom Gana Parishad
120Tezpur73 Brindaban Goswami Asom Gana Parishad
121Thowra107 Kushal Dowari Bharatiya Janata Party
122Tingkhong119 Bimal Bora Bharatiya Janata Party
123Tinsukia122 Sanjoy Kishan Bharatiya Janata Party
124Titabar100 Tarun Gogoi Indian National Congress
125Udalguri69 Rihon Daimary Bodoland People's Front
126Udharbond12 Mihir Kanti Shome Bharatiya Janata Party

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