1977 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

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60 seats in the Assembly
31 seats needed for a majority
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Leader  | Nripen Chakraborty |
Party  | CPI(M) |
Leader's seat  | Pramodenagar |
Last election  | 16  |
Seats won  | 51  |
Seat change  |  35  |
Popular vote  | 352,652  |
Percentage  | 47.00%  |
Alliance seats  | 56  |

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Tripura District Map

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| Chief Minister before election

President's rule

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Nripen Chakraborty
CPI(M)

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Tripura

The 1977 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place in a single phase on 31 December 1977 to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India.[1]

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), led Left front won the election by 56 seats and formed a Government in Tripura.

## Highlights[edit]

Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on December 31, 1977. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.

### Participating Political Parties[edit]

Partytype Abbreviation  | Party  |

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National Parties
1 | CPI | Communist Party of India
2 | CPM | Communist Party of India (Marxist)
3 | INC | Indian National Congress
4 | JNP | Janata Party
State Parties
5 | FBL | All India Forward Bloc
6 | RSP | Revolutionary Socialist Party
Registered (Unrecognised ) Parties
7 | PBI | Proutist Bloc of India
8 | TCD | Congress for Democracy
9 | TUS | Tripura Upajati Zuba Samiti
Independents
10 | IND | IndependentS

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### No. of Constituencies[edit]

Type of Constituencies  | GEN  | SC  | ST  | Total

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No. of Constituencies  | 34  | 7  | 19  | 60

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### Electors[edit]

| Men  | Women  | Total

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No.of Electors  | 495,342  | 466,656  | 961,998
No.of Electors who Voted  | 406,052  | 358,878  | 764,930
Polling Percentage  | 81.97%  | 76.90%  | 79.51%

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### Performance of Women Candidates[edit]

| Men  | Women  | Total

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No.of Contestants  | 322  | 06  | 328
Elected  | 59  | 01  | 60

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## Result[edit]

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Party  | Seats Contested  | Seats Won  | No. of Votes  | % of Votes  | 1972 Seats
Communist Party of India | 10  | 0  | 6,266  | 0.84%  | 1
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 55  | 51  | 352,652  | 47.00%  | 16
Indian National Congress | 60  | 0  | 133,240  | 17.76%  | 41
Janata Party | 59  | 0  | 78,479  | 10.46%  | \-
All India Forward Bloc | 1  | 1  | 7,800  | 1.04%  | 0
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 2  | 2  | 12,446  | 1.66%  | \-
Proutist Bloc of India | 6  | 0  | 2,139  | 0.29%  | \-
Congress for Democracy | 59  | 0  | 66,913  | 9.08%  | \-
Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 28  | 4  | 59,474  | 7.93%  | 0
Independents | 48  | 2  | 30,862  | 4.11%  | 2
Total  | 328  | 60  | 750,271  |  |
Source: ECI[6]

### Results by constituency[edit]

Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituency[7] Assembly Constituency  | Turnout  | Winner  | Runner Up  | Margin

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#k  | Names  | %  | Candidate  | Party  | Votes  | %  | Candidate  | Party  | Votes  | %
1 | Simna | 83.98% | Abhiram Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 6,800 | 54.13% | Maharajkumar Sahadev Bikram Kishore Dev Barman |  | JP | 2,739 | 21.8% | 4,061
2 | Mohanpur | 81.74% | Radharaman Debnath |  | CPI(M) | 4,599 | 36.51% | Ambika Deb |  | Congress for Democracy | 2,797 | 22.21% | 1,802
3 | Bamutia | 83.52% | Haricharan Sarkar |  | CPI(M) | 6,195 | 49.7% | Parfulla Kumar Das |  | Congress for Democracy | 5,276 | 42.33% | 919
4 | Barjala | 82.1% | Gouri Bhattacharjee |  | CPI(M) | 8,178 | 58.79% | Reserwar Datta |  | Congress for Democracy | 3,317 | 23.84% | 4,861
5 | Khayerpur | 78.93% | Akhil Debnath |  | CPI(M) | 5,833 | 45.4% | Amar Ranjan Gupta |  | INC | 2,168 | 16.87% | 3,665
6 | Agartala | 78.14% | Ajoy Biswas |  | Independent | 10,682 | 68.2% | Kamal Kumar Singha |  | Congress for Democracy | 2,021 | 12.9% | 8,661
7 | Ramnagar | 78.72% | Biren Datta |  | CPI(M) | 8,420 | 63.41% | Apanshu Mohan Lodh |  | INC | 2,553 | 19.23% | 5,867
8 | Town Bordowali | 77.93% | Brajagopal Roy |  | AIFB | 7,800 | 62.76% | Dwijen Dey |  | JP | 2,034 | 16.37% | 5,766
9 | Banamalipur | 79.01% | Bibekananda Bhowmik |  | Independent | 6,734 | 64.43% | Priya Lal Paul |  | Congress for Democracy | 1,745 | 16.7% | 4,989
10 | Majlishpur | 84.67% | Khagen Das |  | CPI(M) | 4,437 | 37.07% | Jatindra Kumar Majumdar |  | Congress for Democracy | 2,425 | 20.26% | 2,012
11 | Mandaibazar | 78.24% | Rashiram Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 6,915 | 50.72% | Kshirode Debbarma |  | TUS | 3,606 | 26.45% | 3,309
12 | Takarjala | 76.36% | Sudhanwa Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 5,358 | 41.5% | Biswa Kumar Debbarma |  | TUS | 4,075 | 31.56% | 1,283
13 | Pratapgarh | 82.27% | Anil Sarkar |  | CPI(M) | 10,869 | 66.44% | Madhusudan Das |  | INC | 3,397 | 20.76% | 7,472
14 | Badharghat | 80.06% | Jadab Majumder |  | CPI(M) | 10,816 | 74.83% | Sachindra Lal Singha |  | Congress for Democracy | 1,844 | 12.76% | 8,972
15 | Kamalasagar | 79.99% | Matilal Sarkar |  | CPI(M) | 7,041 | 58.12% | Manoranjan Laskar |  | JP | 2,451 | 20.23% | 4,590
16 | Bishalgarh | 81.89% | Gautam Prasad Dutta |  | CPI(M) | 5,384 | 45.47% | Samir Ranjan Barman |  | JP | 3,546 | 29.95% | 1,838
17 | Golaghati | 80.92% | Niranjan Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 4,254 | 31.85% | Budha Debbarma |  | TUS | 3,171 | 23.74% | 1,083
18 | Charilam | 79.78% | Harinath Debbarma |  | TUS | 4,259 | 33.2% | Durga Prasad Sikdar |  | CPI(M) | 3,231 | 25.18% | 1,028
19 | Boxanagar | 84.81% | Arabar Rahaman |  | CPI(M) | 5,255 | 47.1% | Munsur Ali |  | INC | 4,114 | 36.88% | 1,141
20 | Nalchar | 83.37% | Sumanta Kumar Das |  | CPI(M) | 6,433 | 52.69% | Bir Chandra Barman |  | INC | 2,945 | 24.12% | 3,488
21 | Sonamura | 84.% | Subal Rudra |  | CPI(M) | 6,469 | 53.88% | Debendra Kishore Chowdhury |  | INC | 4,389 | 36.55% | 2,080
22 | Dhanpur | 83.08% | Samar Chowdhury |  | CPI(M) | 6,244 | 48.79% | Brojendra Ghosh |  | JP | 3,100 | 24.22% | 3,144
23 | Ramchandraghat | 89.22% | Dasarath Deb |  | CPI(M) | 9,585 | 81.57% | Nand Kumar Debbarma |  | JP | 1,166 | 9.92% | 8,419
24 | Khowai | 84.66% | Swaraijam Kamini Thakur Singha |  | CPI(M) | 5,715 | 51.25% | Arun Kar |  | Congress for Democracy | 3,215 | 28.83% | 2,500
25 | Asharambari | 82.94% | Bidya Chandra Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 9,506 | 77.7% | Dayanand Debbarma |  | INC | 1,125 | 9.19% | 8,381
26 | Pramodenagar | 82.3% | Nirpen Chakraborty |  | CPI(M) | 8,786 | 57.53% | Upendra Chandra Debnath |  | INC | 2,565 | 16.79% | 6,221
27 | Kalyanpur | 83.94% | Makhan Lal Chakraborty |  | CPI(M) | 5,211 | 41.27% | Ashoke Kumar Bhattacharya |  | INC | 2,842 | 22.51% | 2,369
28 | Krishnapur | 67.32% | Manindra Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 6,116 | 57.3% | Maharajkumar Nakshatra Bikram |  | INC | 1,703 | 15.95% | 4,413
29 | Teliamura | 78.97% | Jitendra Sarkar |  | CPI(M) | 5,769 | 42.31% | Ratan Chakraborty |  | INC | 3,387 | 24.84% | 2,382
30 | Bagma | 79.66% | Rati Mohan Jamaitia |  | TUS | 5,652 | 45.26% | Ganapada Jamatia |  | CPI(M) | 5,194 | 41.59% | 458
31 | Salgarh | 82.49% | Gopal Chandra Das |  | RSP | 6,968 | 60.32% | Jitendra Chandra Das |  | INC | 1,620 | 14.02% | 5,348
32 | Radhakishorpur | 80.8% | Jogesh Chakraborty |  | RSP | 5,478 | 54.62% | Usha Ranjan Sen |  | INC | 1,755 | 17.5% | 3,723
33 | Matarbari | 82.2% | Naresh Chandra Ghosh |  | CPI(M) | 6,372 | 50.91% | Anil Sarkar |  | INC | 2,418 | 19.32% | 3,954
34 | Kakraban | 82.71% | Kashab Chandra Majumder |  | CPI(M) | 6,781 | 53.7% | Ajit Ranjan Ghosh |  | INC | 3,006 | 23.8% | 3,775
35 | Rajnagar | 78.8% | Nakul Das |  | CPI(M) | 7,828 | 55.49% | Upendra Kumar Das |  | INC | 5,100 | 36.15% | 2,728
36 | Belonia | 81.72% | Jyotirmoy Das |  | CPI(M) | 5,460 | 41.65% | Manoranjan Majumder |  | INC | 5,341 | 40.74% | 119
37 | Santirbazar | 78.29% | Drao Kumar Reang |  | TUS | 4,397 | 30.08% | Subodh Chandra Nath |  | CPI(M) | 3,902 | 26.69% | 495
38 | Hrishyamukh | 83.22% | Badal Chowdhury |  | CPI(M) | 7,552 | 56.01% | Arun Chandra Bhowmik |  | INC | 5,209 | 38.63% | 2,343
39 | Jolaibari | 76.69% | Brajamohan Jamatia |  | CPI(M) | 3,603 | 36.57% | Kashi Ram Reang |  | INC | 3,071 | 31.17% | 532
40 | Manu | 78.9% | Matahari Chowdhury |  | CPI(M) | 6,292 | 42.65% | Angju Mog |  | INC | 5,098 | 34.56% | 1,194
41 | Sabroom | 83.94% | Sunil Kumar Chowdhury |  | CPI(M) | 6,537 | 46.94% | Rabindra Kumar Patari |  | INC | 3,712 | 26.66% | 2,825
42 | Ampinagar | 73.6% | Nagendra Jamatia |  | TUS | 5,744 | 45.17% | Madhu Sudan Kalai |  | CPI(M) | 4,814 | 37.86% | 930
43 | Birganj | 77.9% | Syamal Saha |  | CPI(M) | 5,745 | 39.5% | Kanai Lal Sarkar |  | INC | 4,212 | 28.96% | 1,533
44 | Raima Valley | 67.65% | Baju Ban Riyan |  | CPI(M) | 7,661 | 72.65% | Monojay Roaja |  | TUS | 1,588 | 15.06% | 6,073
45 | Kamalpur | 84.04% | Bimal Singha |  | CPI(M) | 7,634 | 70.06% | Brajakishore Singha |  | INC | 1,156 | 10.61% | 6,478
46 | Surma | 83.58% | Rudrewar Das |  | CPI(M) | 7,403 | 57.83% | Jogendra Das |  | INC | 2,096 | 16.37% | 5,307
47 | Salema | 81.29% | Dinesh Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 6,890 | 53.24% | Madan Mohan Debbarma |  | INC | 3,302 | 25.52% | 3,588
48 | Kulai | 76.7% | Kamini Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 6,050 | 46.34% | Prafulla Roaja |  | INC | 2,664 | 20.41% | 3,386
49 | Chawamanu | 68.48% | Purna Mohan Tripura |  | CPI(M) | 4,613 | 49.9% | Shyama Charan Tripura |  | TUS | 1,587 | 17.17% | 3,026
50 | Pabiachhara | 75.96% | Bidhu Bhusan Malakar |  | CPI(M) | 6,270 | 53.84% | Brajendra Das |  | INC | 2,778 | 23.85% | 3,492
51 | Fatikroy | 82.67% | Tarani Mohan Singha |  | CPI(M) | 6,057 | 44.21% | Gopesh Ranjan Deb |  | INC | 3,365 | 24.56% | 2,692
52 | Chandipur | 82.56% | Baidyanath Majumdar |  | CPI(M) | 9,197 | 64.38% | Manindralal Bhowmik |  | INC | 3,260 | 22.82% | 5,937
53 | Kailashahar | 78.54% | Tapan Chakraborty |  | CPI(M) | 7,111 | 53.36% | Abdul Shahid |  | INC | 3,954 | 29.67% | 3,157
54 | Kurti | 76.51% | Faizur Rahaman |  | CPI(M) | 5,500 | 48.28% | Gopendra Kumar Das |  | JP | 1,233 | 10.82% | 4,267
55 | Kadamtala | 73.02% | Umesh Chandra Nath |  | CPI(M) | 5,575 | 56.06% | Luthfur Rahaman Chowdhury |  | JP | 1,731 | 17.41% | 3,844
56 | Dharmanagar | 79.12% | Amarendra Sarma |  | CPI(M) | 6,640 | 53.94% | Debiprasad Purkayastha |  | INC | 2,963 | 24.07% | 3,677
57 | Jubarajnagar | 80.62% | Ram Kumar Nath |  | CPI(M) | 6,379 | 56.21% | Manoranjan Nath |  | Congress for Democracy | 2,255 | 19.87% | 4,124
58 | Pencharthal | 70.29% | Mohan Lal Chakma |  | CPI(M) | 4,977 | 42.47% | Sushil Kumar Chakma |  | INC | 2,966 | 25.31% | 2,011
59 | Panisagar | 75.21% | Subodh Chandra Das |  | CPI(M) | 5,588 | 58.4% | Debendra Chandra Nath |  | Independent | 781 | 8.16% | 4,807
60 | Kanchanpur | 65.06% | Mandida Reang |  | CPI(M) | 5,608 | 55.81% | Sukadayal Jamatia |  | TUS | 2,012 | 20.02% | 3,596

## Government Formation[edit]

The Left Front won a majority of the 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The LF was an alliance of left-wing political parties, including the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M). Nripen Chakraborty of the CPI-M formed a government as Chief Minister on January 5, 1978.[8]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Official Website of State Election Commission, Government of Tripura, India". sec.tripura.gov.in.
2. ^ "List of Participating Political Parties".
3. ^ "Constituencies-Tripura".
4. ^ "Total No.of Electors".
5. ^ "Performance of Women candidates Vs Men candidates".
6. ^ "1977 Tripura Election result".
7. ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1977 to the Legislative Assembly of Tripura" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (pdf) on 13 June 2018.
8. ^ "43. India/Tripura (1949-present)". uca.edu.

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