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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 2003 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
| country = India
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1998 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
| previous_year = 1998
| next_election = 2008 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
| next_year = 2008
| seats_for_election = All 60 seats in the Assembly
| majority_seats = 31

| election_date = 26 Feb 2003
| party1 = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
| image1 = [[File:Manik Sarkar.jpg|160x150px]]
| leader1 = [[Manik Sarkar]]
| leaders_seat1 = [[Dhanpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Dhanpur]]
| last_election1 = 38
| seats1 = 38
| seat_change1 =-
| popular_vote1 = 711,119
| percentage1 = 46.82%

| party2 = Indian National Congress
| image2 = Birajit Sinha.jpg
| leader2 =[[Birajit Sinha]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Kailasahar]]
| last_election2 = 13
| seats2 = 13
| seat_change2 =-
| popular_vote2 = 498,749
| percentage2 = 32.84%


| map_image = Tripura map.png
| map_size = 200px
| map_caption = [[Tripura]] District Map

| title = [[Chief Minister of Tripura|CM]]
| before_election = [[Manik Sarkar]]
| before_party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
| after_election = [[Manik Sarkar]]
| after_party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
}}
[[File:Tripura in India.png|thumb|right|[[Tripura]]]]

The 2003 [[Tripura Legislative Assembly]] election took place in a single phase on 26 February to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in [[Tripura]], [[India]]. Counting of votes occurred on 1 March 2003. The results were ready within the day.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sec.tripura.gov.in/|title=State Election Commission, Tripura}}</ref>

The [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))]], led by [[Manik Sarkar]], won 38 seats and formed a Government in [[Tripura]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://resultuniversity.com/tripura-election|title=Tripura 2003}}</ref>

==Highlights==
Election to the [[Tripura Legislative Assembly]] were held on February 26, 2003. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.

=== Participating Political Parties ===
<div class="mob-table">

<table class="wikitable tableizer-table">
<tr class="tableizer-firstrow"><th>Partytype Abbreviation</th><th> Party</th><th></th></tr>
<tr class="tableizer-secrow"><td colspan="3" align="center">National Parties</td></tr>
<tr><td>1</td><td>BJP </td><td>Bhartiya Janta Party</td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td>CPI </td><td>Communist Party of India</td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td>CPM </td><td>Communist Party of India (Marxist)</td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td><td>INC </td><td>Indian National Congress</td></tr>
<tr><td>5</td><td>NCP </td><td>Nationalist Congress Party</td></tr>
<tr class="tableizer-secrow"><td colspan="3" align="center">State Parties</td></tr>
<tr><td>6</td><td>AITC</td><td> All India Trinamool Congress</td></tr>
<tr><td>7</td><td>INPT </td><td>ndigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra</td></tr>
<tr><td>8</td><td>RSP </td><td>Revolutionary Socialist Party</td></tr>
<tr class="tableizer-secrow"><td colspan="3" align="center">State Parties - Other States</td></tr>
<tr><td>9</td><td>CPI(ML)(L) </td><td>Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) (Liberation)</td></tr>
<tr><td>10</td><td>FBL </td><td>All India Forward Bloc</td></tr>
<tr><td>11</td><td>JD(U) </td><td>Janata Dal (United)</td></tr>
<tr class="tableizer-secrow"><td colspan="3" align="center">Registered(Unrecognised ) Parties</td></tr>
<tr><td>12</td><td>AMB </td><td>Amra Bangalee</td></tr>
<tr><td>13</td><td>LJNSP</td><td> Lok Jan Shakti Party</td></tr>
<tr class="tableizer-secrow"><td colspan="3" align="center">Independents</td></tr>
<tr><td>14</td><td>IND</td><td>Independent</td></tr>
</table>
</div><ref>{{cite web|url=https://eci.gov.in/|title=List of Participating Political Parties}}</ref>

=== No. of Constituencies ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Type of Constituencies
! GEN
! SC
! ST
! Total
|-
| No. of Constituencies
| 33
| 7
| 20
| 60
|}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eci.gov.in/|title=Constituencies-Tripura}}</ref>

=== Electors ===
{| class="wikitable"
!
! Men
! Women
! Total
|-
| No.of Electors
| 1,000,309
| 931,411
| 1,931,720
|-
| No.of Electors who Voted
| 809,492
| 710,925
| 1,520,417
|-
| Polling Percentage
| 80.92%
| 76.33%
| 78.71%
|}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eci.gov.in/|title=Total No.of Electors}}</ref>

=== Performance of Women Candidates ===
{| class="wikitable"
!
! Men
! Women
! Total
|-
| No.of Contestants
| 235
| 19
| 254
|-
| Elected
| 58
| 02
| 60
|}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eci.gov.in/|title=Performance of Women candidates Vs Men candidates}}</ref>

==Results==
{{Politics of India}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!colspan=10|[[File:India Tripura Legislative Assembly 2003.svg]]
|-
! Party
! Seats Contested
! Seats Won
! No. of Votes
! % of Votes
! 1998 Seats
|-
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| 21
| 0
| 20,032
| 1.32%
| 0
|-
| [[Communist Party of India]]
| 2
| 1
| 23,443
| 1.54%
| 1
|-
| [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| 55
| 38
| 711,119
| 46.82%
| 38
|-
| [[Indian National Congress]]
| 42
| 13
| 498,749
| 32.84%
| 13
|-
| [[Nationalist Congress Party]]
| 12
| 0
| 4,553
| 0.30%
| 0
|-
| [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
| 18
| 0
| 6,493
| 0.43%
| 0
|-
| [[Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra]]
| 18
| 6
| 189,186
| 12.46%
| 4
|-
| [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
| 2
| 2
| 28,688
| 1.89%
| 2
|-
| [[Independent (politician)|Independents]]
| 52
| 0
| 12,788
| 0.84%
| 2
|-
! Total
! 254
! 60
! 1,518,789
!
!
!
|-
|colspan=10|Source: ECI<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3306-tripura-2003/|title=Tripura Election Result 2003-ECI}}</ref>
|-
|}

==Constituency wise Winners==

<table class="wikitable sortable tableizer-table" border="1">
<tr class="tableizer-firstrow"><th>A.C
No.
</th><th>Assembly Constituency Name</th><th>Winner Candidates Name</th><th>Gender</th><th>Party</th></tr>
<tr><td>1</td><td>Simna (ST)</td><td>Pranab Debbarma </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td>Mohanpur</td><td>Ratan Lal Nath </td><td>M</td><td>INC</td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td>Bamutia (SC)</td><td>Prakash Ch.Das </td><td>M</td><td>INC</td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td><td>Barjala</td><td>Dipak Kumar Roy </td><td>M</td><td>INC</td></tr>
<tr><td>5</td><td>Khayerpur</td><td>Pabitra Kar </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>6</td><td>Agartala</td><td>Sudip Roy Barman </td><td>M</td><td>INC</td></tr>
<tr><td>7</td><td>Ramnagar</td><td>Surajit Datta </td><td>M</td><td>INC</td></tr>
<tr><td>8</td><td>Town Bordowali</td><td>Ashok Kr, Bhattacharyya </td><td>M</td><td>INC</td></tr>
<tr><td>9</td><td>Banamalipur</td><td>Gopal Ch.Ray </td><td>M</td><td>INC</td></tr>
<tr><td>10</td><td>Majlishpur</td><td>Manik Dey </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>11</td><td>Mandaibazar (ST)</td><td>Manoranjan Debbarma </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>12</td><td>Takarjala (ST)</td><td>Rajeswar Debbarma </td><td>M</td><td>INPT</td></tr>
<tr><td>13</td><td>Pratapgarh (SC)</td><td>Anil Sarkar </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>14</td><td>Badharghat</td><td>Subrata Chakrabarty </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>15</td><td>Kamalasagar</td><td>Narayan Ch.Choudhury </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>16</td><td>Bishalgarh</td><td>Samir Ranjan Barman </td><td>M</td><td>INC</td></tr>
<tr><td>17</td><td>Golaghati (ST)</td><td>Ashok Debbarma </td><td>M</td><td>INC</td></tr>
<tr><td>18</td><td>Charilam (ST)</td><td>Narayan Rupini </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>19</td><td>Boxanagar</td><td>Sahid Choudhury </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>20</td><td>Nalchar (SC)</td><td>Sukumar Barman </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>21</td><td>Sonamura</td><td>Subal Rudra </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>22</td><td>Dhanpur</td><td>Manik Sarkar </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>23</td><td>Ramchandraghat (ST)</td><td>Padma Kumar Debbarma </td><td>F</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>24</td><td>Khowai</td><td>Samir Deb Sarkar </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>25</td><td>Asharambari (ST)</td><td>Sachindra Debbarma </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>26</td><td>Pramodnagar (ST)</td><td>Animesh Debbarma </td><td>M</td><td>INPT</td></tr>
<tr><td>27</td><td>Kalyanpur</td><td>Kajal Ch.Das </td><td>M</td><td>INC</td></tr>
<tr><td>28</td><td>Krishnapur (ST)</td><td>Khagendra Jamatia </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>29</td><td>Teliamura</td><td>Ashok Kumar Baidya </td><td>M</td><td>INC</td></tr>
<tr><td>30</td><td>Bagma (ST)</td><td>Gunapada Jamatia </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>31</td><td>Salgarh (SC)</td><td>Gopal Ch.Das </td><td>M</td><td>RSP</td></tr>
<tr><td>32</td><td>Radhakishorepur</td><td>Joy Gobinda Deb Roy </td><td>M</td><td>RSP</td></tr>
<tr><td>33</td><td>Matarbari</td><td>Madhab Ch.Saha </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>34</td><td>Kakraban</td><td>Keshab Majumder </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>35</td><td>Rajnagar (SC)</td><td>Sudhan Das </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>36</td><td>Belonia</td><td>Basudeb Majumder </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>37</td><td>Santirbazar (ST)</td><td>Manindra Reang </td><td>M</td><td>CPI</td></tr>
<tr><td>38</td><td>Hrishyamukh</td><td>Badal Choudhury </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>39</td><td>Jolaibari (ST)</td><td>Jashabir Tripura </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>40</td><td>Manu (ST)</td><td>Jitendra Choudhury </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>41</td><td>Sabroom</td><td>Gour Kanti Goswami </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>42</td><td>Ampinagar (ST)</td><td>Nagendra Jamatia </td><td>M</td><td>INPT</td></tr>
<tr><td>43</td><td>Birganj</td><td>Ranjit Debnath </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>44</td><td>Raima Valley (ST)</td><td>Rabindra Debbarma </td><td>M</td><td>INPT</td></tr>
<tr><td>45</td><td>Kamalpur</td><td>Bijoy Lakshmi Singha </td><td>F</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>46</td><td>Surma (SC)</td><td>Sudhir Das </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>47</td><td>Salema (ST)</td><td>Prasanta Debbarma </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>48</td><td>Kulai (ST)</td><td>Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl </td><td>M</td><td>INPT</td></tr>
<tr><td>49</td><td>Chhawmanu (ST)</td><td>Syamacharan Tripura </td><td>M</td><td>INPT</td></tr>
<tr><td>50</td><td>Pabiachhara (SC)</td><td>Bidhubhusan Malakar </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>51</td><td>Fatikroy</td><td>Bijoy Roy </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>52</td><td>Chandipur</td><td>Tapan Chakrabarty </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>53</td><td>Kailasahar</td><td>Birajit Sinha </td><td>M</td><td>INC</td></tr>
<tr><td>54</td><td>Kurti</td><td>Faizur Rohman </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>55</td><td>Kadamtala</td><td>Jyotirmoy Nath </td><td>M</td><td>INC</td></tr>
<tr><td>56</td><td>Dharmanagar</td><td>Amitabha Datta </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>57</td><td>Jubarajnagar</td><td>Ramendra Ch.Debnath </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>58</td><td>Pencharthal (ST)</td><td>Arun Kr,Chakma </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>59</td><td>Panisagar</td><td>Subodh Das </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr>
<tr><td>60</td><td>Kanchanpur (ST)</td><td>Rajendra Reang </td><td>M</td><td>CPM</td></tr></table><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elections.in/tripura/assembly-constituencies/2003-election-results.html|title=Detailed Result Tripura 2003}}</ref>

==Government Formation==
The 18 member [[Left Front (Tripura)|Left Front]] ministry led by Chief Minister [[Manik Sarkar]], sworn in on 7 March 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ipcs.org/comm_select.php?articleNo=989|title=State of Politics in Tripura}}</ref>

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