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The Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, 2013 was held on 25 November 2013 in all 40 constituencies of the Legislative Assembly of Mizoram. Results were declared on 9 December.[1] The main contest was between incumbent the Indian National Congress and the Mizo National Front led Mizoram Democratic Alliance. Incumbent Chief Minister Pu Lalthanhawla and his party Indian National Congress won a majority and continued in government.
Background
The election for 40 seats legislative assembly was held on 25 November 2013. There were 6.9 lakh eligible voters.[2] Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) along with EVMs was used on a large-scale for the first time in India,[3] in 10 assembly seats out of 40 in Mizoram elections.[4] The seven armed battalion of state police and 31 companies of central para-military forces and other state police were deployed for peaceful election.[2]
Candidates
There were total 142 candidates including 40 Congress and 40 Mizoram Democratic Alliance (MDA) candidates. MDA candidates include 31 Mizo National Front (MNF), 8 Mizoram People's Conference (MPC) and one Maraland Democratic Front (MDF) candidates. 38 Zoram Nationalist Party, 17 Bharatiya Janata Party, 2 Nationalist Congress Party and one Jai Maha Bharath Party candidate also contested. There were total six female candidates including 3 Bharatiya Janata Party candidates, one Congress, one MNF and one other female candidate. All the seats were reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidates, except Lunglei South.[2]
Results
The result was declared on 9 December 2013. Indian National Congress won a large majority of 34 out of 40 seats. Mizo National Front and Mizoram People's Conference won five seats and one seat respectively. 81% of eligible voters turned out to vote.[5]
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| style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress
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| - || 34 || Template:Increase 2 || 85.0 || || - || Template:Decrease
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| style="text-align:left;" |Mizo National Front
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| - || 5 || Template:Increase 2 || 12.5 || || - || Template:Increase
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| style="text-align:left;" |Mizoram People's Conference
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| - || 1 || Template:Decrease 1 || 2.5 || || - || Template:Decrease
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|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" ! style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2" colspan="2"| Parties and coalitions ! colspan="3"| Popular vote ! colspan="2"| Seats |- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" ! width="70"| Votes ! width="45"| % ! width="45"| ±pp ! width="30"| Won ! width="30"| +/− |-style="text-align:right" | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | align="left"| Indian National Congress (INC) | 255,917 || 44.3 ||Template:Increase5.4 | 34 || Template:Increase2 |-style="text-align:right" | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | align="left"| Mizo National Front (MNF) | 164,305 || 28.4 ||Template:Decrease2.3 | 5 || Template:Increase2 |-style="text-align:right" | bgcolor="blue"| | align="left"| Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) | 99,916 || 17.3 ||Template:Increase7.3 | 0 || Template:Decrease2 |-style="text-align:right" | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | align="left"| Mizoram People's Conference (MPC) | 35,269 || 6.1 ||Template:Decrease4.3 | 1 || Template:Decrease1 |-style="text-align:right" | | align="left" | Maraland Democratic Front (MDF) | 5,433 || 0.9 ||Template:Increase0.1 | 0 || Template:Decrease1 |-style="text-align:right" | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | align="left" | Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) | 4,835 || 0.8 ||Template:Increase0.7 | 0 || Template:Steady |-style="text-align:right" | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | align="left" | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 2,139 || 0.4 ||Template:Steady | 0 || Template:Steady |-style="text-align:right" | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | align="left" | Independents (IND) | 1,764 || 0.3 ||Template:Decrease7.4 | 0 || Template:Steady |-style="text-align:right" | | align="left"| Jai Maha Bharath Party (JMBP) | 29 || 0.0 ||Template:Steady | 0 || Template:Steady |-style="text-align:right" | bgcolor="black"| | align="left"| None of the Above (NOTA) | 8,810 || 1.5 ||Template:Increase1.5 | Template:N/a || Template:N/a |- | colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| |- style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold;" | align="left" colspan="2"| Total | 573,417 || 100.00 || bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| | 40 || ±0 |- |}<section end=Results />
Elected Members
References
- ↑ EC revises dates for Mizoram Assembly Elections 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 81 per cent turnout in peaceful polling in Mizoram. Rediff News(2013-11-24).
- ↑ VVPAT training in Tripura. The Telegraph(7 November 2017).
- ↑ VVPATs to be used on large-scale for 1st time in Mizoram polls. The Hindu(2013-11-24).
- ↑ Assembly Elections December 2013 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 April 2019.