Sonai Assembly constituency

Sonai
Constituency No. 119 for the Assam Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Northeast India
State	Assam
District	Cachar
Lok Sabha constituency	Silchar
Established	1951
Reservation	None

Sonai Assembly constituency is one of the 126 state legislative assembly constituencies in Assam state in North Eastern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Silchar Lok Sabha constituency. ^[1]

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No.10 Sonai Assembly constituency is composed of the following:Sonai thana [excluding circle Nos. 32 (Part), 65, 66, Boaligrant in circle No. 54 (Part) and Hill Punjee and forest villages] and circle Nos. 28 to 31 and 35 in Silchar thana and circle No. 58 (Part) in Dholai thana in Silchar sub-division. ^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Winner	Party
1951	Nanda Kishore Sinha		Indian National Congress
1957
1962	Pulakeshi Singh		Indian National Congress
1967	Moinul Hoque Choudhury		Indian National Congress
1972	Nurul Haque Choudhury		Indian National Congress
1983
1978	Altaf Hossain Mazumdar		Janata Party
1985	Abdul Rob Laskar		Indian National Congress
1991	Badrinarayan Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
1996	Anwar Hussain Laskar		Asom Gana Parishad
2001			Samajwadi Party
2006	Kutub Ahmed Mazumder		Indian National Congress
2011	Anamul Haque Laskar		Indian National Congress
2016	Aminul Haque Laskar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2021	Karim Uddin Barbhuiya		All India United Democratic Front

Election results

2021

2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Sonai

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIUDF	Karim Uddin Barbhuiya	71,937	48.83	+22.78
	BJP	Aminul Haque Laskar	52,283	35.49	−0.34
	Independent	Asish Halder	14,500	9.84
	AITC	M.Shanti Kumar Singha	2,796	1.9	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	1231	0.84
	SP	Anwar Hussain Laskar	469	0.32
	SUCI(C)	Anjan Kumar Chanda	244	0.17
Majority			19,654
Turnout			1,47,344	79.88
	AIUDF gain from BJP		Swing

2016 ^[3]

Assam Legislative Assembly Election, 2016: Sonai

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Aminul Haque Laskar	44,236	35.89
	INC	Anamul Haque	36,683	29.76
	AIUDF	Karim Uddin Barbhuiya	32,109	26.05
	Independent	Ibungobi Singha	2,987	2.42
	Independent	Anwar Hussain Laskar	2,408	1.95
	Independent	Sanjib Kumar Das	943	0.77
	Independent	Santosh Das	598	0.49
	Independent	Rejaul Islam Barbhuiya	579	0.47
	LJP	Pranesh Nath	522	0.42
	SP	Manindra Chandra Das	401	0.33
	Independent	Jawaharlal Goala	401	0.33
	Independent	Maksus Ahmed Laskar	306	0.25
	NOTA	None of the Above	1292	1.05
Majority			7,553	6.13
Turnout			1,23,261	77.98
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

See also

• Sonai
• Cachar District
• Silchar

References

1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies of State of Assam" (PDF). Election Commission of India . Retrieved 28 November 2025.
2. "Delimitation Of Parliamentary And Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
3. "Sonai (Assam) Election Results 2016". elections.in. Retrieved 1 July 2016.

External links

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