Lakhipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Lakhipur
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Lakhipur
Lakhipur

Location in Assam

Coordinates: 24°48′N 93°01′E / 24.8°N 93.02°E / 24.8; 93.02Coordinates: 24°48′N 93°01′E / 24.8°N 93.02°E / 24.8; 93.02
Country  India
State Assam
District Cachar
Constituency No 13
Vidhan Sabha constituency Lakhipur

Lakhipur Vidhan Sabha Constituency (Bengali: {{{1}}}: লক্ষীপুর বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is one of the 126 assembly constituency in Cachar district in the North-East Indian state of Assam.

Overview[1]

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No.13 Lakhipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Lakhipur thana (excluding circle Nos. 44, 45 and 46) and Boaligrant in circle No. 54 (Part) in Sonai thana in Silchar Subdivision.
Lakhipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 2 Silchar (Lok Sabha constituency).
The total voters of the Lakhipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is 1,37,415. this constituency is mainly tea worker dominated constituency. The two main factors of this constituency in every election are tea workers working in 46,000 strong tea estates and Hindi-speaking community. Language has been a poll plank here for a long time, which is used by different political parties from time to time to garner votes of specific communities.

Member of Legislative Assembly [2][3]

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Lakhipur assembly elections conducted so far.

Year Winner Party Votes Runner Up Party Votes
2014
(By Polls)		Rajdeep Goala INC 51975 Sanjay Kumar Thakur BJP 29322
2011 Dinesh Prasad Goala INC 51975 Reena Singh BJP 21897
2006 Dinesh Prasad Goala INC 53052 Reena Singh BJP 22385
2001 Dinesh Prasad Goala INC 36570 Reena Singh BJP 26815
1996 Dinesh Prosad Goala INC 45961 Audesh Kumar Singh BJP 22533
1991 Dinesh Prasad Goala INC 18538 Debendra Singha BJP 13715
1985 Dinesh Prasad Goala INC 21910 Kshiro Gopal Misra IND 13985
1983 Dinesh Prasad Goala IND 10564 Rakesh Chandra Paul IND 9523
1978 Kazi Kutub Uddin Ahmed IND 11258 Rakesh Chandra Paul IND 9628
1967 M.C. Singha INC 14379 N. Huda IND 8317
1962 Ram Prasad Choubey INC 14916 Gour Singh IND 5267
1957 Ram Prasad Choubey INC
1951 Raghunandan Dhubi INC 23634 Mohammad Ali IND 5941
1951 Ram Prasad Chaubey INC 22911 Manindra Ch. Barman Rajkowar CPI 5793

Election results

2014 results[4]

[5]
Assam Legislative Assembly Election, 2014(By Election): Lakhipur
Party Candidate Votes % ±
INC RAJDEEP GOALA 39159 41.98
BJP SANJAY KUMAR THAKUR 29322 31.43
AIUDF Mukesh Pandey 22590 24.22
SUCI(C) JOY SINGH CHATRI 1640 1.76
Independent Nazim Uddin Mazumder 578 0.62
NOTA None of the Above 1070 1.15
Majority 9837 10.54
Turnout 93289 67.89
INC gain from BJP Swing

2016 results[6]

Assam Legislative Assembly Election, 2016: Lakhipur
Party Candidate Votes % ±
INC RAJDEEP GOALA 60135 55.12
BJP THOIBA SINGHA 35768 32.78
JD(U) LALTHOMLIEN HMAR 8923 8.18
SUCI(C) JOY SINGH CHATRI 1346 1.23
Independent SANJAY KUMAR THAKUR 741 0.68
Independent AJMUL HUSSAIN LASKAR 660 0.6
Independent UJJAL DHUBI 456 0.42
NOTA None of the Above 1309 1.2
Majority 24367 22.33
Turnout 109104 76.16
INC gain from BJP Swing

See also

References

  1. ↑ "DELIMITATION OF PARLIAMENTARY AND ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES ORDER, 2008" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Sitting and previous MLAs from Lakhipur Assembly Constituency". Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "List of Wiining MLA's from Lakhipur Till Date". Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "Lakhipur Assembly (Vidha Sabha) Constituency – Bye Elections 2014" (PDF). Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  5. ↑ http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS0312.htm?ac=12
  6. ↑ "Lakhipur (Assam) Election Results 2016". elections.in. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
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