Barkhetri Assembly constituency

Barkhetri
Constituency No. 38 for the Assam Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Northeast India
State	Assam
District	Nalbari
Lok Sabha constituency	Barpeta
Established	1978
Reservation	None

Barkhetri Assembly constituency is one of the 126 assembly constituencies of Assam Legislative Assembly. Barkhetri forms part of the Barpeta Lok Sabha constituency. ^[1]

Town Details

• Country: India.
• State: Assam.
• District: Nalbari district
• Lok Sabha Constituency: Barpeta Lok Sabha constituency
• Area Includes: Barbhag Dev. Block(Part), Borigog Banbhag Dev. Block(Part), Barkhetri Dev. Block(Part), Paschim Nalbari Dev. Block(Part)-Dakhin Khetri, Pub Nalbari Dev. Block(Part), Saru Khetri Dev. Block(Part).

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election		Member	Party affiliation
	1978	Sheikh Chand Mohammad	Janata Party
	1983		Indian National Congress
	1985	Pulakesh Barua	Independent
	1991	Bhumidhar Barman	Indian National Congress
	1996	Pulakesh Barua	Asom Gana Parishad
	2001	Bhumidhar Barman	Indian National Congress
	2006
	2011
	2016	Atul Bora	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2021	Diganta Barman	Indian National Congress

Election results

2021

2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Barkhetry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Diganta Barman	85,826	49.46	+8.18
	BJP	Narayan Deka	81,772	47.13	−0.02
	AJP	Pulakesh Baruah	2,582	1.49	N/A
	AIUDF	Champak Kalita	1,106	0.64	−6.13
	JD(U)	Santanu Kalita	805	0.46	N/A
	Independent	Bhupen Talukdar	487	0.28	−0.1
	NOTA	None of the above	941	0.54	+0.01
Majority			4,054	2.33
Turnout			1,73,519	88.12	−0.75
Registered electors			1,96,918
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

2016

2016 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Barkhetry ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Narayan Deka	69,223	47.15
	INC	Diganta Barman	60,610	41.28
	AIUDF	Akram Hussain Talukdar	9,950	6.77
	Independent	Kamalesh Deka	2,316	1.57
	AITC	Raju Barman	874
	JMBP	Deepak Kalita	670
	Independent	Bhupen Talukdar	551
	Independent	Manomati Das	475
	Independent	Bipul Goswami	382
	Independent	Mantu Baruah	368
	Independent	Raju Deka	347
	LDP	Bhumidhar Barman	255
	NOTA	None of the above	782
Majority			8,613
Turnout			1,46,803
Registered electors			1,65,065
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

References

1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies of State of Assam" (PDF). Election Commission of India . Retrieved 2025-11-28.
2. "Assam General Legislative Election 2016". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 13 November 2021.

External links

• "Results of all Assam Assembly elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.