Belonia Assembly constituency

Belonia
Constituency No. 35 for the Tripura Legislative Assembly
Belonia constituency within Tripura
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Northeast India
State	Tripura
District	South Tripura [1]
LS constituency	Tripura West
Established	1967
Total electors	44,741 [2]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
13th Tripura Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Dipankar Sen
Party	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Arun Chandra Bhaumik

Belonia is one of the 60 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Tripura state in India. ^[3]

It is part of South Tripura district ^[1] and is centered around the town of Belonia. As of 2023, Dipankar Sen is the current representative of this constituency. His term is expected to last until 2028.

History

The constituency of Belonia was created, in 1967, for the newly created 30-seat Legislative Assembly of the union territory of Tripura, by the Government Of Union Territories Act, 1963. ^[4] Later, in 1971, Tripura was converted from a union territory to a state, by the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971, which increased the number of constituencies in Tripura to 60, ^[5] hence requiring major boundary changes to the constituencies.

By the last delimitation, carried out in 2005, the constituency consists of all of Belonia and Maichhara tehsils and parts of Barpathari, Baikhora and Rajapur tehsils. ^[6]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1967	U. K. Roy [7]		Indian National Congress
Major Boundary Changes
1972	Jitendra Lal Das [8]		Communist Party of India
1977	Jyotirmoy Das [9]		Communist Party of India
1983	Manoranjan Majumder [10]		Independent
1988	Amal Mallik [11]		Indian National Congress
1993 [12]
1998	Basudev Majumder [13]		Communist Party of India
2003 [14]
2008 [15]
2013 [16]
2018	Arun Chandra Bhaumik [17] [18] [19]		Bharatiya Janata Party
2023	Dipankar Sen		Communist Party of India

Election results

20th century

1967

Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 1967: Belonia ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	U.K. Roy	10,502	60.05	N/A
	CPI	J.L. Das	6,691	38.26	N/A
	Independent	J.C.D. Mahajan	297	1.70	N/A
Majority			3,811	21.79	N/A
Turnout			17,490	73.00	N/A
	INC win (new seat)

1972

Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 1972: Belonia ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Jitendra Lal Das	3,992	43.57	5.31
	INC	Suresh Chandra Choudhury	3,627	39.59	N/A
	CPI(M)	Sudhangsu Bimal Dutta	1,543	16.84	N/A
Majority			365	3.98	17.81
Turnout			9,162	58.79	14.21
	CPI gain from INC		Swing

1977

Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 1977: Belonia ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Jyotirmoy Das	5,460	41.65	N/A
	INC	Manoranjan Majumder	5,341	40.74	N/A
	JP	Manik Lal Choudhury	1,176	8.97	N/A
	CPI	Jitendra Lal Das	841	6.41	37.16
	Independent	Ramesh Chandra Das	292	2.23	N/A
Majority			119	0.91	3.07
Turnout			13,358	81.72	22.93
	CPI(M) gain from CPI		Swing

1983

Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 1983: Belonia ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Manoranjan Majumder	8,081	50.75	10.01
	CPI	Jitendra Lal Das	7,657	48.08	41.67
	Independent	Madan Mohan Baidya	153	0.96	N/A
	Independent	Anil Saha	33	0.21	N/A
Majority			424	2.66	1.75
Turnout			15,924	87.18	5.46
	Independent gain from CPI(M)		Swing

1988

Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 1988: Belonia ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Amal Mallik	10,227	51.96	N/A
	CPI	Jitendra Lal Das	9,314	47.32	0.76
	BJP	Anil Saha	97	0.49	0.28
	Independent	Ratan Roy	45	0.23	N/A
Majority			913	4.63	1.97
Turnout			19,683	88.52	1.34
	INC gain from Independent		Swing

1993

Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 1993: Belonia ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Amal Mallik	14,985	62.30	10.34
	CPI	Sunil Baran Das Gupta	8,430	35.05	N/A
	BJP	Keshab Ch. Sarkar	232	0.96	N/A
	Independent	Amulya Bhowmik	110	0.46	N/A
	Independent	Madan Daidya	98	0.41	N/A
	Independent	Pulin Behari Chowdhury	92	0.38	N/A
	Independent	Pabitra Roy	64	0.27	N/A
	Independent	Sital Datta	42	0.17	N/A
Majority			6,555	27.25	22.62
Turnout			24,053	86.92	1.60
	INC hold		Swing

1998

Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 1998: Belonia ^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Basudev Majumder	12,409	52.21	N/A
	INC	Amal Mallik	10,552	44.40	17.90
	BJP	Jagadish Ch. Bose	762	3.21	N/A
	Independent	Madan Baidya	44	0.19	0.22
Majority			1857	7.81	19.44
Turnout			23767	87.63	0.71
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

21st century

2003

Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 2003: Belonia ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Basudev Majumder	15,419	59.13	6.92
	INC	Babul Majumder	9,469	36.31	N/A
	AITC	Amal Mallik	673	2.58	41.82
	NCP	Bimal Krishna Nag	292	1.12	N/A
	LJP	Haripada Chakrabarty	223	0.86	N/A
Majority			5950	22.82	15.01
Turnout			26076	84.65	2.98
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

2008

Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 2008: Belonia ^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Basudev Majumder	15,971	50.47	8.66
	INC	Amal Mallik	14,652	46.30	43.72
	CPI(ML)L	Babul Chandra Pal	333	1.05	N/A
	AITC	Sudeb Sen Choudhury	294	0.93	N/A
	BJP	Keshab Chandra Sarkar	293	0.93	N/A
	Independent	Ratan Roy	102	0.32	N/A
Majority			1312	4.17	18.65
Turnout			31645	95.0	10.35
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

2013

Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 2013: Belonia ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Basudev Majumder	20,585	55.60	5.13
	INC	Amal Mallik	15,761	42.57	3.73
	Independent	Gouri Sankar Nandi	352	0.95	N/A
	CPI(ML)L	Babul Chandra Paul	324	0.88	0.17
Majority			4824	13.03	8.86
Turnout			37022	95.61	0.61
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

2018

Tripura Legislative Assembly Election, 2018: Belonia ^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Arun Chandra Bhaumik	19,307	48.01	N/A
	CPI(M)	Basudev Majumder	18,554	46.14	9.46
	INC	Bholanath Dhar	399	1.01	N/A
	AITC	Prasanta Sen	323	0.82	N/A
	Independent	Gauri Sankar Nandi	157	0.408	0.54
	Independent	Amalendu Banik	124	0.326	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	378	0.96	N/A
Majority			753	1.72	11.31
Turnout			39,275	89.95	5.66
	BJP gain from CPI(M)		Swing

See also

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

References

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