Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency

Karimganj
AS-7
Karimganj ; AS-7
Lok Sabha constituency
	Interactive Map Outlining Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Northeast India
State	Assam
Assembly constituencies	6
Established	1952
Total electors	11,65,997
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Kripanath Mallah
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Last updated July 01, 2024

Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam state in north-eastern India, covering Karimganj and Hailakandi districts in the Barak Valley.

Assembly segments

Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:^[1]

Current assembly segments

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District
121	Hailakandi	None	Hailakandi
122	Algapur - Katlicherra		Hailakandi
123	Karimganj North		Karimganj
124	Karimganj South
125	Patharkandi
126	Ramkrishna Nagar	SC

Previous assembly segments

No	Name	District	Member
1	Ratabari (SC)	Karimganj	Bijoy Malakar	BJP
2	Patharkandi		Krishnendu Paul	BJP
3	Karimganj North		Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha	Indian National Congress
4	Karimganj South		Siddeque Ahmed	Indian National Congress
5	Badarpur		Abdul Aziz	All India United Democratic Front
6	Hailakandi	Hailakandi	Zakir Hussain Laskar	All India United Democratic Front
7	Katlicherra		Suzam Uddin Laskar	All India United Democratic Front
8	Algapur		Nizam Uddin Choudhury	All India United Democratic Front

Members of Parliament

Year	Winner
1962	Nihar Ranjan Laskar	Indian National Congress
1967
1971
1977
1980		Indian National Congress
1984	Sudarsan Das	Indian Congress
1991	Dwarka Nath Das	Bharatiya Janata Party
1996	Dwarka Nath Das	Bharatiya Janata Party
1998	Nepal Chandra Das	Indian National Congress
1999	Nepal Chandra Das
2004	Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya
2009	Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya
2014	Radheshyam Biswas	All India United Democratic Front
2019	Kripanath Mallah	Bharatiya Janata Party
2024	Kripanath Mallah	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general election: Karimganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Kripanath Mallah	545,093	47.53
	INC	Hafiz Rashid Ahmed Choudhury	5,26,733	45.93
	AIUDF	Sahabul Islam Choudhury	29,205	2.55
	Independent	Jibesh Deb	7,109	0.62
	Independent	Debojyoti Nath	5,907	0.52
	RUC	Ahad Uddin	4,192	0.37
	Independent	Binay Krishna Roy	3,628	0.32
	Independent	Dilip Kumar	2,630	0.23
	Independent	Rosid Ahmed Laskar	2,601	0.23
	Independent	Muzzakir Hasan Laskar	2,291	0.2
	Independent	Abdul Basit Tapadar	1,923	0.17
	Independent	Gopal Chandra Paul	1,657	0.14
	Independent	Md. Nazrul Islam Laskar	1,382	0.12
	Independent	Sahel Ahmed	1,111	0.1
	Independent	Abdul Goffar Talukdar	1,095	0.1
	Independent	Safikur Rahman Hazari	1,031	0.09
	SUCI(C)	Prajjwal Sudip Deb	1,001	0.09
	Independent	Abdul Kalam Mazumder	971	0.09
	Independent	Alim Uddin Mazumder	882	0.08
	Independent	Abdul Hameed	842	0.07
	Bangali Nabanirman Sena	Debashish Ghosh	817	0.07
	Independent	Rashid Ahmed Choudhury	721	0.06
	Independent	Abdus Subhan Tapadar	571	0.05
	Independent	Rokibul Hussain Choudhury	545	0.05
	NOTA	None Of The Above	2,940	0.26
Majority			18,360
Turnout			11,46,882	79.18
	BJP hold		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Karimganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kripanath Mallah	473,046	44.62	+15.22
	AIUDF	Radheshyam Biswas	4,34,657	41.00	+0.09
	INC	Swarup Das	1,20,452	11.36	-14.18
	AITC	Chandan Das	4,870	0.46	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Probash Ch. Sarkar	1,166	0.11	-0.24
	NOTA	None of the above	6,555	0.62	+0.14
Majority			38,389	3.62	-7.89
Turnout			10,61,160	79.18	+3.11
	BJP gain from AIUDF		Swing	+3.71

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General elections 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Karimganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIUDF	Radheshyam Biswas	3,62,866	40.91	+4.17
	BJP	Krishna Das	2,60,772	29.40	+7.67
	INC	Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya	2,26,562	25.54	-12.35
	AGP	Rabindranath Choudhury	5,556	0.63	+0.63
	AAP	Tarun Kumar Das	3,658	0.41	N/A
	Independent	Sujit Mallick	3,437	0.39	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Probash Ch. Sarkar	3,114	0.35	+0.17
	Independent	Sajalendu Malakar	2,465	0.28	N/A
	Independent	Goutam Malakar	2,447	0.28	N/A
	Independent	Pradip Suklabaidya	2,392	0.27	N/A
	SP	Rinku Malakar	2,275	0.26	N/A
	Independent	Sabuj Das	1,974	0.22	N/A
	Independent	Sanjit Kumar Das	1,880	0.21	N/A
	Independent	Pintu Malakar	1,664	0.19	N/A
	Independent	Mahananda Das	1,592	0.18	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	4,266	0.48	---
Majority			102,094	11.51	+10.36
Turnout			8,87,782	76.14
	AIUDF gain from INC		Swing

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General elections 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Karimganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya	2,59,717	37.89
	AIUDF	Rajesh Mallah	2,51,797	36.73
	BJP	Sudhangshu Das	1,48,945	21.73
Majority			7,920	1.16
Turnout			6,85,420	64.13
	INC hold		Swing

General elections 2004

General Election, 2004: Karimganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya	321,059	47.81
	BJP	Parimal Suklabaidya	229,111	34.12
	AGP	Nepal Chandra Das	106,546	15.87
	Independent	Babul Ram Das	3,925	0.58
	Independent	Sushil Kumar Das	3,641	0.54
	Independent	Radha Kanta Tanty	2,862	0.43
	Independent	Lukendra Roy	2,386	0.36
	Independent	Babul Roy	1,960	0.29
Majority			91,948
Turnout			671,491	68.91
	INC hold		Swing

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References

↑ "List of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Assam. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-05-04. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
↑ Lok Sabha election 2019 results Karimganj
↑ The Sentinel. 16 candidates file nomination in Karimganj Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] "List of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Assam. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-05-04. Retrieved 2008-10-05.

[2] Lok Sabha election 2019 results Karimganj

[3] The Sentinel. 16 candidates file nomination in Karimganj Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine

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