Goalpara West Assembly constituency

Goalpara West
Constituency No. 13 for the Assam Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Northeast India
State	Assam
District	Goalpara
Lok Sabha constituency	Guwahati
Established	1967
Reservation	ST

Goalpara West Assembly constituency is one of the 126 assembly constituencies of Assam Legislative Assembly in the north east state of Assam, India. Goalpara West is also part of Guwahati Lok Sabha constituency.

This constituency is reserved for the Scheduled Tribes candidates since 2023. ^[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

• 1967: S. A. Jotder, Praja Socialist Party
• 1972: S. A. Jotder, Indian National Congress
• 1978: Nazmul Haque, Independent
• 1983: Hassanuddin Ahmed, Indian National Congress
• 1985: Sheikh Saman Ali, Independent
• 1991: Nazmul Haque, Independent
• 1996: Abu Bakar Siddique Jotdar, Indian National Congress
• 2001: Sheikh Shah Alam, Nationalist Congress Party
• 2006: Abdur Rashid Mandal, Indian National Congress
• 2011: Sheikh Shah Alam, All India United Democratic Front
• 2016: Abdur Rashid Mandal, Indian National Congress

Year	Member	Party
2021	Abdur Rashid Mandal [2]		Indian National Congress

Election results

2016

2016 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Goalpara West ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Abdur Rashid Mandal	61,007	44.77	+24.65
	AIUDF	Sheikh Shah Alam	36,668	26.90	−7.27
	BJP	Jabeen Barbhuiyan	32,432	23.80	+22.39
	AGP	Anowar Hussain	1,154	0.84	−23.44
	SUCI(C)	Mohibul Islam	1,016	0.74	−1.14
	AITC	Zesmina Khatun	582	0.42	−0.38
	Independent	Mizanur Rahman	523	0.38	N/A
	RPI(A)	Khanindra Chandra Nath	489	0.35	N/A
	Independent	Babli Goswami Chakraborty	480	0.35	N/A
	JMBP	Ali Akbar	457	0.33	N/A
	Independent	Jali Begum	289	0.21	N/A
	NPP	Joynal Abedin	269	0.19	N/A
	NAICP	Giasuddin Ahmed	252	0.18	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	646	0.47	N/A
Majority			24,339	17.87	+7.98
Turnout			1,36,264	91.67	+2.98
	INC gain from AIUDF		Swing	+15.69

2011

2011 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Goalpara West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIUDF	Sheikh Shah Alam	37,800	34.17	+9.91
	AGP	Purandar Rabha	26,862	24.28	+4.42
	INC	Abdur Rashid Mandal	22,261	20.12	−6.77
	NCP	Abs Joddar	19,154	17.31	−0.45
	SUCI(C)	Nazmul Haque	2,069	1.87	N/A
	BJP	Nishikanta Hajong	1,563	1.41	−0.59
	AITC	Dilip Roy	894	0.80	N/A
Majority			10,938	9.89	+7.26
Turnout			1,10,603	88.69	+6.00
	AIUDF gain from INC		Swing	+1.57

2006

Assam Legislative Assembly election, 2006: Goalpara West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Abdur Rashid Mandal	26,330	26.89
	AIUDF	Ahammad Ali	23,755	24.26
	AGP	Robin Rabha	19,440	19.86
	NCP	Abu Bakkar Siddique Jotdar	17,393	17.76
	Independent	Nozmul Haque	6,534	6.67
	BJP	Saman Ali	1,961	2.00
	AIMF	Nazir Uddin Ahmed	645	0.66
	AGP(P)	Abul Kashem	525	0.54
	Independent	Arif Uddin Ahmed	486	0.50
	IUML	Jahirul Islam	472	0.48
	LJP	Delowara Begum	365	0.37
Majority			2,575	2.63
Turnout			97,906	82.69
	INC gain from NCP		Swing

References

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