Agartala (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Agartala
Constituency
for the Vidhan Sabha
District West Tripura
State Tripura
Current constituency
Created 1977
Party BJP
MLA Sudip Roy Barman
Reservation No

Agartala (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: আগরতলা বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is one of the 60 assembly constituencies of Tripura a northeastern state of India. Tripura is also part of Tripura West Lok Sabha constituency.[1]

Incumbent MLA is Sudip Roy Barman, Minister of Education, Law, Public Works who has represented this constituency since 1998. [2]

Member of Legislative Assembly

Year Member Political Party
1972Ajoy BiswasIndependent
1977Ajoy BiswasCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
1983Manik SarkarCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
1988Bibhu Kumari DeviIndian National Congress
1993Nripen ChakrabortyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
1998Sudip Roy BarmanIndian National Congress
2003
2008
2013
2016[3] All India Trinamool Congress
2017[4] Bharatiya Janata Party
2018

Election results

2018 election

Tripura Legislative Assembly election, 2018: Tripura
Party Candidate Votes % ±
BJP Sudip Roy Barman 25,234 56.58 +54.64
CPI(M) Krishna Majumder 17,852 40.03 -5.71
INC Prasanta Sen Chowdhury 646 1.44 -50.84
Trinamool Congress Panna Deb 302 0.67 N/A
Tripura People's Party Prabin Singha 215 0.48 N/A
NOTA None of the above 344 0.77 N/A
Majority 7,382 16.55
Turnout 44,593 90.79 -0.84
Registered electors 49,115
BJP gain from INC Swing +52.74

2013 election

Tripura Legislative Assembly election, 2013: Agartala
Party Candidate Votes % ±
INC Sudip Roy Barman 22,160 52.28
CPI(M) Sankar Prasad Datta 19,398 45.74
BJP Sushil Roy 823 1.94
Majority 2,762 6.54
Turnout 42,381 91.63
Registered electors 46,252
INC hold Swing

See also

References

  1. ↑ Elections in
  2. ↑ Map of India
  3. ↑ "Tripura: Six Congress MLAs join Trinamool to fight Manik Sarkar government". The Indian Express. 2016-06-07. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  4. ↑ "Tripura Speaker Ramendra Chandra Debnath recognises six axed TMC MLAs as BJP legislators - Firstpost". www.firstpost.com. Retrieved 2018-02-09.


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