Silchar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Silchar
Silchar
	Vidhan Sabha constituency
	Silchar Location in Assam Silchar Silchar (India)
	Coordinates: 24°49′59.7756″N 92°46′44.058″E
Country	India
State	Assam
District	Cachar
Constituency No	9
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Silchar

Silchar Vidhan Sabha Constituency is one of the 126 assembly constituency in Cachar district in the North-East Indian state of Assam.[1]

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 9 Silchar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Silchar Municipality and circle Nos. 34, 36A, 36B and 37 in Silchar Police Station in Silchar Sub-Division.[2] Silchar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 2 Silchar (Lok Sabha constituency) and also the headquarter of Cachar District.

Member of Legislative Assembly

1951: Mehrab Ali Laskar, Independent
1952: (by-election): L. M. Ali, Independent
1957: L. M. Ali, Independent
1962: L. M. Ali, Independent
1967: Santosh Mohan Dev, Indian National Congress
1972: Mohitosh Purkayastha, Indian National Congress
1978: Nurul Huda, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1983: Jagdish Chandra Choudhury, Indian National Congress
1985: Karnendu Bhattacharjee, Indian National Congress
1991: Samarendra Nath Sen, Bharatiya Janata Party
1996: Bimalangshu Roy, Bharatiya Janata Party
2001: Bimalangshu Roy, Bharatiya Janata Party
2006: Bithika Dev, Indian National Congress
2011: Sushmita Dev, Indian National Congress
2014 (by-election): Dilip Kumar Paul, Bharatiya Janata Party
2016: Dilip Kumar Paul, Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2016 results

2016 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Silchar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dilip Kumar Paul	94,787	60.53	+19.44
	INC	Bithika Dev	54,867	35.03	-14.86
	CPI (M)	Supriya Bhattacharjee	1,961	1.25	-3.91
	Independent	Shuvadip Dutta	657	0.41	N/A
	Independent	Rita Mazumder	526	0.33	N/A
	Independent	Imdad Hussain Laskar	512	0.32	N/A
	SP	Sahin Ahmed Choudhury	332	0.21	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Pradip Kumar Deb	324	0.20	-0.51
	Independent	Biju Chanda	318	0.20	N/A
	Independent	Khairul Alam Barbhuiyan	270	0.17	N/A
	Independent	Brojalal Das	232	0.14	N/A
	Independent	Ascham Uddin Laskar	211	0.13	N/A
	BGP	Nilom Sanjib Sarmah	199	0.12	N/A
	Independent	Monilal Das	158	0.10	N/A
	Independent	Ashim Kumar Das	97	0.06	0
	NOTA	None of the above	1,143	0.72	N/A
Majority			39,920	25.50	+13.10
Turnout			1,56,594	75.05	+17.04
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	+17.20

2014 by-election

2014 by-election: Silchar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dilip Kumar Paul	74,898	58.37	+20.88
	INC	Arun Dutta Mazumder	37,457	29.19	-20.70
	AIUDF	Nur Ahmed Barbhuiyan	11,203	8.73	+8.09
	CPI (M)	Dulal Mitra	2,401	1.87	-3.29
	SUCI(C)	Pradeep Kumar Deb	881	0.69	-0.02
	Independent	Shuvadip Dutta	465	0.36	N/A
	Independent	Jahir Uddin Mazumder	272	0.21	N/A
	Independent	Shipra Rani Das	205	0.16	N/A
	Independent	Biju Chanda	173	0.13	N/A
	Independent	Puspita Devi	148	0.12	N/A
	Independent	Kaushik Paul	141	0.11	N/A
	Independent	Ashim Das	77	0.06	N/A
Majority			37,441	29.18	+16.78
Turnout			1,28,321	63.09	+5.08
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	+20.79

2011 results

2011 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Silchar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sushmita Dev	56,377	49.89	+3.92
	BJP	Rajdeep Roy	42,366	37.49	-4.83
	CPI (M)	Parimal Kanti Paul	5,835	5.16	+1.18
	AGP	Alhaj Fakrul Islam Mazumder	4,066	3.60	N/A
	AITC	Dhrubajyoti Gupta	1,010	0.89	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Tushar Kanti Purkayastha	807	0.71	N/A
	AIUDF	Dibakar Bhattacharjee	718	0.64	N/A
	Independent	Shekhar Roy	671	0.59	N/A
	Independent	Rajdeep Deb Roy	542	0.48	N/A
	Independent	Amrit Lal Das	341	0.30	N/A
	Independent	Kamal Das	262	0.23	N/A
Majority			14,011	12.40	+8.75
Turnout			1,12,995	58.01	-1.93
	INC hold		Swing	+4.38

References

"Silchar Election Results 2016, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up and Current MLAs". Retrieved 28 June 2016.
"DELIMITATION OF PARLIAMENTARY AND ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES ORDER, 2008" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Retrieved 1 July 2016.

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[1] "Silchar Election Results 2016, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up and Current MLAs". Retrieved 28 June 2016.

[2] "DELIMITATION OF PARLIAMENTARY AND ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES ORDER, 2008" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Retrieved 1 July 2016.