Tripura was recognized as a state in India on January 21, 1972. Before that, Tripura was a Union Territory. The first Legislative Assembly Election as a state was held on March 11, 1972.[1] The 1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place in a single phase to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India.[2]
Indian National Congress led by Sukhamoy Sen Gupta, won 41 seats and formed a Government in Tripura.
Highlights
Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on March 11, 1972. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.
Participating political parties
| # | Type | Abbreviation | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Party | BJS | Bharatiya Jan Sangh |
| 2 | CPI | Communist Party of India | |
| 3 | CPM | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 4 | INC | Indian National Congress | |
| 5 | State Party | FBL | All India Forward Bloc |
| 6 | Registered (Unrecognised) Party | TUS | Tripura Upajati Zuba Samiti |
| 7 | Independents | IND | Independent |
No. of constituencies
| Type of Constituencies | GEN | SC | ST | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Constituencies | 36 | 5 | 19 | 60 |
Electors
| Men | Women | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No.of Electors | 406,712 | 359,381 | 766,093 |
| No.of Electors who Voted | 284,765 | 231,288 | 516,053 |
| Polling Percentage | 70.02% | 64.36% | 67.36% |
Performance of women candidates
| Men | Women | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No.of Contestants | 230 | 04 | 328 |
| Elected | 60 | 00 | 60 |
Result
| |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats contested | Seats won | No. of votes | % of votes | 1967 Seats | ||||
| Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 3 | 0 | 345 | 0.07% | 0 | ||||
| Communist Party of India | 11 | 1 | 15,226 | 3.04% | 1 | ||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 57 | 16 | 189,667 | 37.82% | 2 | ||||
| Indian National Congress | 59 | 41 | 224,821 | 44.83% | 27 | ||||
| All India Forward Bloc | 9 | 0 | 5,739 | 1.14% | - | ||||
| Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 10 | 0 | 5,883 | 1.17% | - | ||||
| Independents | 85 | 2 | 59,792 | 11.92% | 0 | ||||
| Total | 234 | 60 | 501,473 | ||||||
| Source: ECI[7] | |||||||||
Results by constituency
| Assembly Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #k | Names | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |||
| 1 | Simna | 75.04% | Bhadramani Debbarma | Template:Party name with color | 4,594 | 53.02% | S. B. Kishore Debbarman | Template:Party name with color | 3,656 | 42.2% | style="background:Template:Party color"|938 | ||
| 2 | Mohanpur | 66.05% | Radharaman Debnath | Template:Party name with color | 4,277 | 51.58% | Pram D. Ranjan Dasgupta | Template:Party name with color | 3,592 | 43.32% | style="background:Template:Party color"|685 | ||
| 3 | Bamutia | 71.4% | Prafulla Kumar Das | Template:Party name with color | 4,862 | 61.72% | Brajendra Biswas | Template:Party name with color | 3,015 | 38.28% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,847 | ||
| 4 | Barjala | 67.67% | Basana Chakraborty | Template:Party name with color | 3,733 | 55.67% | Gouri Bhattacharjee | Template:Party name with color | 2,307 | 34.4% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,426 | ||
| 5 | Kunjaban | 65.46% | Ashok Kumar Bhattacharya | Template:Party name with color | 7,033 | 52.38% | Kanu Ghosh | Template:Party name with color | 5,633 | 41.95% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,400 | ||
| 6 | Pratapgarh | 62.8% | Madhusudan Das | Template:Party name with color | 3,862 | 49.% | Jadab Chandra Majumder | Template:Party name with color | 3,593 | 45.59% | style="background:Template:Party color"|269 | ||
| 7 | Agartala Town III | 59.74% | Sukhamoy Sen Gupta | Template:Party name with color | 4,415 | 49.44% | Supriyo Bhowmik | Template:Party name with color | 2,963 | 33.18% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,452 | ||
| 8 | Ananda Nagar | 68.21% | Tarit Mohan Dasgupta | Template:Party name with color | 4,341 | 45.07% | Khagen Das | Template:Party name with color | 4,159 | 43.18% | style="background:Template:Party color"|182 | ||
| 9 | Agartala Town I | 64.27% | Ajoy Biswas | Template:Party name with color | 3,810 | 50.28% | Renuka Chakraborty | Template:Party name with color | 2,742 | 36.19% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,068 | ||
| 10 | Agartala Town II | 65.01% | Krishnadas Bhattacharjee | Template:Party name with color | 3,009 | 48.01% | Ashoke Chakraborty | Template:Party name with color | 2,322 | 37.05% | style="background:Template:Party color"|687 | ||
| 11 | Old Agartala | 70.44% | Sailesh Chandra Some | Template:Party name with color | 5,098 | 56.76% | Jagadish Chandra Dey | Template:Party name with color | 2,217 | 24.69% | style="background:Template:Party color"|2,881 | ||
| 12 | Majlishpur | 70.59% | Jatindra Kumar Majumder | Template:Party name with color | 3,724 | 54.79% | Bhanu Gosh | Template:Party name with color | 3,073 | 45.21% | style="background:Template:Party color"|651 | ||
| 13 | Mandaibazar | 65.98% | Kalidas Debbarma | Template:Party name with color | 4,717 | 66.28% | Bagala Prasad Debbarma | Template:Party name with color | 1,664 | 23.38% | style="background:Template:Party color"|3,053 | ||
| 14 | Uttar Debendranagar | 69.% | Sabhiram Debbarma | Template:Party name with color | 4,208 | 56.51% | Rabindra K. Debbarma | Template:Party name with color | 1,949 | 26.18% | style="background:Template:Party color"|2,259 | ||
| 15 | Ishanchandranagar | 69.56% | Naresh Chandra Roy | Template:Party name with color | 3,349 | 46.62% | Mati Lal Sarkar | Template:Party name with color | 3,328 | 46.33% | style="background:Template:Party color"|21 | ||
| 16 | Takarjala | 65.21% | Gunapada Jamatia | Template:Party name with color | 3,461 | 41.37% | Mahendra Debbarma | Template:Party name with color | 3,049 | 36.45% | style="background:Template:Party color"|412 | ||
| 17 | Kamalasagar | 75.41% | Bichitra Mohan Saha | Template:Party name with color | 3,936 | 52.56% | Nagendra Deb | Template:Party name with color | 2,316 | 30.93% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,620 | ||
| 18 | Bishalgarh | 73.54% | Samir Ranjan Barman | Template:Party name with color | 2,777 | 32.32% | Babul Sengupta | Template:Party name with color | 2,638 | 30.7% | style="background:Template:Party color"|139 | ||
| 19 | Charilam | 67.03% | Niranjan Deb | Template:Party name with color | 2,805 | 36.78% | Monmohan Debbarma | Template:Party name with color | 2,474 | 32.44% | style="background:Template:Party color"|331 | ||
| 20 | Bishramganj | 69.65% | Sudhanwa Debbarma | Template:Party name with color | 2,745 | 35.12% | Deuan Chandra Tripura | Template:Party name with color | 2,479 | 31.72% | style="background:Template:Party color"|266 | ||
| 21 | Boxanagar | 74.34% | Munsur Ali | Template:Party name with color | 3,787 | 54.69% | Phani Bhushan Bhakta | Template:Party name with color | 2,097 | 30.29% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,690 | ||
| 22 | Nalchar | 67.01% | Benode Behari Das | Template:Party name with color | 4,078 | 48.77% | Hari Madhab Bhowmik | Template:Party name with color | 3,199 | 38.26% | style="background:Template:Party color"|879 | ||
| 23 | Sonamura | 65.74% | Debendra Kishore Chowdhury | Template:Party name with color | 3,340 | 55.44% | Sultan Miah | Template:Party name with color | 1,504 | 24.97% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,836 | ||
| 24 | Dhanpur | 67.66% | Samar Chowdhury | Template:Party name with color | 3,530 | 48.64% | Dhirendra Kumar Sengupta | Template:Party name with color | 2,757 | 37.99% | style="background:Template:Party color"|773 | ||
| 25 | Salgarh | 69.29% | Tapash Dey | Template:Party name with color | 3,966 | 48.67% | Abani Mohan Bhowmik | Template:Party name with color | 2,907 | 35.67% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,059 | ||
| 26 | Kakraban | 69.4% | Ajit Ranjan Ghosh | Template:Party name with color | 3,387 | 43.19% | Kashab Chandra Majumder | Template:Party name with color | 2,849 | 36.33% | style="background:Template:Party color"|538 | ||
| 27 | Radhakishorpur | 72.7% | Usha Ranjan Sen | Template:Party name with color | 4,888 | 48.37% | Sushil Mukerjee | Template:Party name with color | 3,509 | 34.73% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,379 | ||
| 28 | Matarbari | 67.34% | Nishi Kanta Sarkar | Template:Party name with color | 3,851 | 45.7% | Naresh Chandra Ghosh | Template:Party name with color | 3,215 | 38.16% | style="background:Template:Party color"|636 | ||
| 29 | Rajnagar | 63.83% | Lakshmi Nag | Template:Party name with color | 3,265 | 34.63% | Badal Chowdhury | Template:Party name with color | 2,908 | 30.85% | style="background:Template:Party color"|357 | ||
| 30 | Belonia | 58.79% | Jitendra Lal Das | Template:Party name with color | 3,992 | 43.57% | Suresh Chandra Chowdhury | Template:Party name with color | 3,627 | 39.59% | style="background:Template:Party color"|365 | ||
| 31 | Hrishyamukh | 63.1% | Chandra Sekhar Dutta | Template:Party name with color | 5,911 | 66.14% | Amalendu Chakraborty | Template:Party name with color | 2,613 | 29.24% | style="background:Template:Party color"|3,298 | ||
| 32 | Muhuripur | 58.6% | Achaichhi Mog | Template:Party name with color | 4,394 | 55.93% | Brajmohan Jamatia | Template:Party name with color | 2,583 | 32.88% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,811 | ||
| 33 | Manu | 67.92% | Hari Chanran Choudhrury | Template:Party name with color | 4,764 | 54.25% | Thaingya Mog | Template:Party name with color | 3,157 | 35.95% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,607 | ||
| 34 | Sabroom | 72.9% | Kalipada Banerji | Template:Party name with color | 6,180 | 66.31% | Sunil Kumar Chowdhury | Template:Party name with color | 3,140 | 33.69% | style="background:Template:Party color"|3,040 | ||
| 35 | Chellagong | 59.33% | Baju Ban Riyan | Template:Party name with color | 3,032 | 41.25% | Panji Ham Reang | Template:Party name with color | 2,989 | 40.67% | style="background:Template:Party color"|43 | ||
| 36 | Birganj | 66.57% | Sushil Ranjan Saha | Template:Party name with color | 3,645 | 46.61% | Syamal Kantisaha | Template:Party name with color | 3,142 | 40.17% | style="background:Template:Party color"|503 | ||
| 37 | Dumburnagar | 53.6% | Pakhi Tripura | Template:Party name with color | 3,272 | 60.15% | Rajprasad Chowdhury | Template:Party name with color | 1,664 | 30.59% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,608 | ||
| 38 | Ampinagar | 59.63% | Bullu Kuki | Template:Party name with color | 3,663 | 57.84% | Gopinath Jamatia | Template:Party name with color | 2,140 | 33.79% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,523 | ||
| 39 | Teliamura | 73.05% | Anil Sarkar | Template:Party name with color | 5,458 | 51.19% | Bir Chandra Barman | Template:Party name with color | 3,847 | 36.08% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,611 | ||
| 40 | Mohar Chhera | 72.83% | Ananta Hari Jamatia | Template:Party name with color | 5,351 | 51.36% | Joy Mohan Debbarma | Template:Party name with color | 3,691 | 35.43% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,660 | ||
| 41 | Kalyanpur | 84.55% | Bidya Chandra Debbarma | Template:Party name with color | 10,273 | 77.36% | Krishna Kumar Debbarma | Template:Party name with color | 3,006 | 22.64% | style="background:Template:Party color"|7,267 | ||
| 42 | Pramodenagar | 79.25% | Manindra Debbarma | Template:Party name with color | 7,439 | 61.25% | Nanda Kumar Debbarma | Template:Party name with color | 4,707 | 38.75% | style="background:Template:Party color"|2,732 | ||
| 43 | Khowai | 76.52% | J Prasanna Bhattacharjee | Template:Party name with color | 5,069 | 56.35% | Kaminisingh | Template:Party name with color | 3,162 | 35.15% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,907 | ||
| 44 | Asharambari | 82.01% | Nripen Chakraborty | Template:Party name with color | 6,290 | 58.92% | Arun Kar | Template:Party name with color | 4,137 | 38.75% | style="background:Template:Party color"|2,153 | ||
| 45 | Kamalpur | 75.44% | Sunil Chandra Datta | Template:Party name with color | 4,422 | 49.45% | Makhan Datta | Template:Party name with color | 3,768 | 42.14% | style="background:Template:Party color"|654 | ||
| 46 | Surma | 77.2% | Kshitish Chandra Das | Template:Party name with color | 4,737 | 48.73% | Rudreswar Das | Template:Party name with color | 4,202 | 43.23% | style="background:Template:Party color"|535 | ||
| 47 | Kulaihower | 67.21% | Mongchabai Mog | Template:Party name with color | 6,380 | 55.81% | Dinesh Debbarma | Template:Party name with color | 4,662 | 40.78% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,718 | ||
| 48 | Chawamanu | 50.4% | Purna Mohan Tripura | Template:Party name with color | 3,164 | 48.03% | Ghanshyam Dewan | Template:Party name with color | 2,189 | 33.23% | style="background:Template:Party color"|975 | ||
| 49 | Fatikroy | 67.29% | Radhika Ranjan Gupta | Template:Party name with color | 4,019 | 38.55% | Tarani Mohan Singha | Template:Party name with color | 2,966 | 28.45% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,053 | ||
| 50 | Pabiachhara | 60.46% | Gopi Nath Tripura | Template:Party name with color | 3,973 | 50.09% | K. Mohan Debbarma | Template:Party name with color | 3,279 | 41.34% | style="background:Template:Party color"|694 | ||
| 51 | Chandipur | 77.71% | Manindralal Bhowmik | Template:Party name with color | 3,418 | 48.94% | Baidyanath Majumdar | Template:Party name with color | 3,138 | 44.93% | style="background:Template:Party color"|280 | ||
| 52 | Kailashahar | 70.73% | Moulana Abdul Ratif | Template:Party name with color | 4,299 | 55.43% | Bonode Dey | Template:Party name with color | 1,720 | 22.18% | style="background:Template:Party color"|2,579 | ||
| 53 | Bilaspur | 70.01% | Subal Chandra Biswas | Template:Party name with color | 4,228 | 56.82% | Barindra Malaker | Template:Party name with color | 2,230 | 29.97% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,998 | ||
| 54 | Jubarajnagar | 65.03% | Monoranjan Nath | Template:Party name with color | 3,777 | 51.37% | Ram Kumar Nath | Template:Party name with color | 2,180 | 29.65% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,597 | ||
| 55 | Longai | 57.45% | Hangshadhwaz Dewan | Template:Party name with color | 3,690 | 46.41% | Indu Madhav Chakma | Template:Party name with color | 2,156 | 27.12% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,534 | ||
| 56 | Kanchanpur | 48.99% | Raimuni Reang Chowdhury | Template:Party name with color | 3,126 | 46.66% | Len Prasad Reang | Template:Party name with color | 2,138 | 31.92% | style="background:Template:Party color"|988 | ||
| 57 | Deocherra | 62.76% | Abdul Wazid | Template:Party name with color | 3,399 | 44.97% | Karunamoy Nath Chowdhury | Template:Party name with color | 1,870 | 24.74% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,529 | ||
| 58 | Dharmanagar | 66.35% | Amarendra Sarma | Template:Party name with color | 3,728 | 47.21% | Debiprasad Purkayastha | Template:Party name with color | 3,489 | 44.19% | style="background:Template:Party color"|239 | ||
| 59 | Kadamtala | 61.99% | Benoy Bhushan Banerjee | Template:Party name with color | 2,684 | 40.74% | Abdul Rup | Template:Party name with color | 1,717 | 26.06% | style="background:Template:Party color"|967 | ||
| 60 | Sonichera | 61.18% | Radha Raman Nath | Template:Party name with color | 2,637 | 33.61% | Abdul Matin Chowdhury | Template:Party name with color | 1,551 | 19.77% | style="background:Template:Party color"|1,086 | ||
Government formation
Indian National Congress (INC) won 41 out of 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The CPI-M won 18 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Sukhamoy Sen Gupta of the INC formed a government as Chief Minister on March 20, 1972.
Prafulla Kumar Das formed a government as Chief Minister on April 1, 1977.
Radhika Ranjan Gupta formed a coalition government with the Janata Party (JP) and the Left Front (LF) on July 26, 1977. Chief Minister Radhika Ranjan Gupta resigned, and the state of Tripura was placed under presidential rule from November 5, 1977 to January 5, 1978.[9]
References
- ↑ Historical background of Tripura.
- ↑ Official Website of State Election Commission, Government of Tripura, India. sec.tripura.gov.in.
- ↑ List of Participating Political Parties.
- ↑ Constituencies-Tripura.
- ↑ Total No.of Electors.
- ↑ Performance of Women candidates Vs Men candidates.
- ↑ 1972 Tripura Election result.
- ↑ Statistical Report on General Election, 1972 to the Legislative Assembly of Tripura. Election Commission of India.
- ↑ 43. India/Tripura (1949-present). uca.edu.