Barjala (Tripura Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Barjala
Constituency for the Tripura Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
State	Tripura
District	West Tripura
Constituency	Tripura West
Total electors	42,358 [1]
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	Dilip Kumar Das
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2018

Barjala is one of the 60 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Tripura state in India. ^{[2] [3]} It is part of West Tripura district and is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes. It is part of Tripura West (Lok Sabha constituency)

Members of Legislative Assembly

• 1972: Basana Chakrabarty, Indian National Congress
• 1977: Gouri Bhattacharjee, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• 1983: Gouri Bhattacharjee, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• 1988: Dipak Kumar Roy, Indian National Congress
• 1993: Arun Bhowmik, Janata Dal (B)
• 1998: Dipak Kumar Roy, Indian National Congress
• 2003: Dipak Kumar Roy, Indian National Congress
• 2008: Sankar Prasad Datta, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• 2013: Jitendra Sarkar, Indian National Congress
• 2016: Jhumu Sarkar, Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Year	Member	Picture	Party
2018	Dilip Kumar Das [4]			Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2018 election

Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 2018: Barjala ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dilip Kumar Das	22,052	56.18	+54.77
	CPI(M)	Jhumu Sarkar	15,825	40.32	-8.20
	INC	Dipak Das	650	1.65	-47.59
	AITC	Utpal Das	293	0.74
	Independent	Sujit Mandal	185	0.47
	NOTA	None of the above	241	0.61
Majority			6,227	15.86
Turnout			39,246	92.65
Registered electors			42,358
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2016 by-election

2016 by-election: Barjala (SC)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Jhumu Sarkar	15,769	44.36	-4.16
	BJP	Sistamohan Das	12,395	34.87	+33.46
	AITC	Prakash Chandra Das	5,692	16.01	N/A
	INC	Rajendra Kumar Das	1,063	2.99	-46.25
	AMB	Bimal Das	245	0.68	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	376	1.05	N/A
Majority			3,374	9.49
Turnout			35,540	88.99	-5.58
Registered electors			39,933
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

2013 election

2013 Tripura Legislative Assembly election: Barjala (SC)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Jitendra Sarkar	17,728	49.24	+1.48
	CPI(M)	Jitendra Das	17,467	48.52	-0.41
	BJP	Samir Biswas	511	1.41	+0.04
	SP	Rahul Das	291	0.80	N/A
Majority			261	0.72
Turnout			35,997	94.57	+1.32
Registered electors			38,061
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+0.95

See also

• List of constituencies of the Tripura Legislative Assembly
• West Tripura district

References

1. "Final Result Sheet - Tripura General Legislative Election 2018" (PDF). ceotripura.nic.in. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
2. Shangara Ram (12 May 2005). "Delimitation Commission of India - Notification". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
3. "District/AC Map - Chief Electoral Officer, Tripura". ceotripura.nic.in. Archived from the original on 5 April 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
4. "Tripura General Legislative Election 2018 - Tripura - Election Commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 19 January 2021.

Coordinates: 23°52′N91°16′E / 23.86°N 91.27°E / 23.86; 91.27