1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

State assembly election in India

1983 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) | INC | TUS
Leader's seat  | Pramodenagar | \-  | \-
Last election  | 51  | 0  | 4
Seats won  | 37  | 12  | 6
Seat change  |  14  |  12  |  2
Popular vote  | 433,608  | 282,859  | 97,039
Percentage  | 46.78%  | 30.51%  | 10.47%

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Tripura district map

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| Chief Minister before election

Nripen Chakraborty
CPI(M)

| Elected Chief Minister

Nripen Chakraborty
CPI(M)

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Tripura

The 1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place on 1 May 1983, to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly constituencies in Tripura, India.[1]

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), led by Nripen Chakraborty, won 37 seats and formed the Government in Tripura.

## Highlights

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Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on February 15, 1993. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.

### Participating Political Parties

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Partytype Abbreviation  | Party  |

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National Parties
1 | BJP | Bhartiya Janta Party
2 | CPI | Communist Party of India
3 | CPM | Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4 | ICS | Indian Congress (Socialist)
5 | INC | Indian National Congress
6 | JNP | Janata Party
State Parties
7 | FBL | All India Forward BlocK
8 | RSP | Revolutionary Socialist Party
9 | TUS | Tripura Upajati Zuba Samiti
Independents
10 | IND | Independent

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### No. of Constituencies

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Type of Constituencies  | GEN  | SC  | ST  | Total

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No. of Constituencies  | 33  | 7  | 20  | 60

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### Electors

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| Men  | Women  | Total

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No.of Electors  | 579,123  | 555,134  | 1,134,257
No.of Electors who Voted  | 495,281  | 446,504  | 941,785
Polling Percentage  | 85.52%  | 80.43%  | 83.03%

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### Performance of Women Candidates

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| Men  | Women  | Total

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No.of Contestants  | 195  | 11  | 206
Elected  | 56  | 04  | 60

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Party  | Seats Contested  | Seats Won  | No. of Votes  | % of Votes  | 1977 Seats
Bharatiya Janata Party | 4  | 0  | 578  | 0.06%  | \-
Communist Party of India | 1  | 0  | 7,657  | 0.83%  | 0
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 56  | 37  | 433,608  | 46.78%  | 51
Indian Congress Secular | 3  | 0  | 540  | 0.06%  | \-
Indian National Congress | 45  | 12  | 282,859  | 30.51%  | 0
Janata Party | 5  | 0  | 515  | 0.06%  | 0
All India Forward Block | 1  | 0  | 6,549  | 0.71%  | 1
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 2  | 2  | 15,218  | 1.64%  | 2
Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 14  | 6  | 97,039  | 10.47%  | 4
Independents | 75  | 3  | 82,443  | 8.89%  | 2
Total  | 206  | 60  | 927,006  |  |
Source: ECI[6]

### Results by constituency

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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 | 83.41% | Abhiram Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 9,206 | 65.23% | Kripa Rani Debbarma |  | TUS | 4,828 | 34.21% | 4,378
2 | Mohanpur | 80.89% | Dhirendra Chandra Debnath |  | INC | 6,568 | 45.07% | Radharaman Debnath |  | CPI(M) | 5,953 | 40.85% | 615
3 | Bamutia | 85.47% | Haricharan Sarkar |  | CPI(M) | 7,417 | 50.79% | Prafulla Kumar Das |  | INC | 7,023 | 48.09% | 394
4 | Barjala | 83.66% | Gouri Bhattacharjee |  | CPI(M) | 8,160 | 49.3% | Basana Chakraborty |  | Independent | 4,904 | 29.63% | 3,256
5 | Khayerpur | 83.34% | Sudhir Ranjan Majumder |  | INC | 8,539 | 52.98% | Akhil Debnath |  | CPI(M) | 7,321 | 45.43% | 1,218
6 | Agartala | 80.44% | Manik Sarkar |  | CPI(M) | 10,623 | 52.18% | Promode Ranjandas Gupta |  | INC | 9,485 | 46.59% | 1,138
7 | Ramnagar | 80.24% | Biren Dutta |  | CPI(M) | 8,026 | 50.8% | Amar Ranjan Gupta |  | INC | 7,640 | 48.35% | 386
8 | Town Bordowali | 79.31% | Ashok Kumar Bhattacharya |  | INC | 7,689 | 52.95% | Brajagopal Roy |  | AIFB | 6,549 | 45.1% | 1,140
9 | Banamalipur | 82.11% | Sukhamoy Sen Gupta |  | INC | 6,883 | 52.43% | Bibekananda Bhowmik |  | CPI(M) | 5,913 | 45.04% | 970
10 | Majlishpur | 83.16% | Khagen Das |  | CPI(M) | 6,397 | 44.21% | Ranjit Saha |  | INC | 4,901 | 33.87% | 1,496
11 | Mandaibazar | 81.% | Rashiram Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 9,861 | 56.04% | Amiya Kumar Debbarma |  | TUS | 7,594 | 43.16% | 2,267
12 | Takarjala | 79.35% | Sudhanwa Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 9,029 | 59.83% | Suriya Kumar Debbarma |  | TUS | 5,930 | 39.29% | 3,099
13 | Pratapgarh | 85.63% | Anil Sarkar |  | CPI(M) | 12,736 | 58.4% | Monomohan Das |  | INC | 8,758 | 40.16% | 3,978
14 | Badharghat | 82.65% | Jadab Majumder |  | CPI(M) | 11,244 | 56.37% | Niranjan Paul |  | INC | 8,551 | 42.87% | 2,693
15 | Kamalasagar | 84.88% | Matilal Sarkar |  | CPI(M) | 7,601 | 50.85% | Monoranjan Laskar |  | INC | 7,170 | 47.97% | 431
16 | Bishalgarh | 84.65% | Bhanu Lal Saha |  | CPI(M) | 7,340 | 51.54% | Samir Ranjan Barman |  | INC | 6,900 | 48.46% | 440
17 | Golaghati | 81.76% | Budha Debbarma |  | TUS | 8,011 | 50.18% | Niranjan Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 7,198 | 45.09% | 813
18 | Charilam | 83.44% | Parimal Chandra Saha |  | INC | 8,528 | 52.7% | Braja Gopal Bhowmik |  | CPI(M) | 7,302 | 45.12% | 1,226
19 | Boxanagar | 88.79% | Araber Rahaman |  | CPI(M) | 7,022 | 51.21% | Munsur Ali |  | INC | 6,648 | 48.49% | 374
20 | Nalchar | 89.03% | Narayan Das |  | INC | 7,420 | 49.94% | Sumanta Kumar Das |  | CPI(M) | 7,210 | 48.53% | 210
21 | Sonamura | 87.97% | Rashik Lal Roy |  | INC | 7,264 | 51.55% | Subal Rudra |  | CPI(M) | 6,623 | 47.% | 641
22 | Dhanpur | 89.26% | Samar Chowdhury |  | CPI(M) | 8,795 | 54.02% | Brajendra Kumar Ghosh |  | INC | 7,487 | 45.98% | 1,308
23 | Ramchandraghat | 87.55% | Dasarath Deb |  | CPI(M) | 11,451 | 86.89% | Bathsailyamani Jamatia |  | TUS | 1,728 | 13.11% | 9,723
24 | Khowai | 88.15% | Samir Deb Sarkar |  | CPI(M) | 5,777 | 45.18% | Sukhamoy Kar |  | INC | 3,587 | 28.05% | 2,190
25 | Asharambari | 85.91% | Bidya Chandra Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 11,360 | 79.67% | Kishalaya Kanti Debbarma |  | INC | 1,591 | 11.16% | 9,769
26 | Pramodenagar | 87.6% | Nripen Chakraborty |  | CPI(M) | 10,845 | 60.87% | Siromani Roy |  | Independent | 5,212 | 29.25% | 5,633
27 | Kalyanpur | 84.93% | Makhan Lal Chakraborty |  | CPI(M) | 7,064 | 49.% | Debabrata Datta |  | Independent | 4,566 | 31.67% | 2,498
28 | Krishnapur | 71.86% | Kali Kumar Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 7,267 | 54.29% | Maharaja Kumar Sahadeb Bikaram Kishore Debbarma |  | INC | 5,059 | 37.8% | 2,208
29 | Teliamura | 83.15% | Gita Chowdhury |  | INC | 6,835 | 42.48% | Jitendra Sarkar |  | CPI(M) | 5,984 | 37.19% | 851
30 | Bagma | 81.6% | Rati Mohan Jamaitia |  | TUS | 10,157 | 62.93% | Gunapada Jamatia |  | CPI(M) | 5,506 | 34.11% | 4,651
31 | Salgarh | 87.11% | Gopal Chandra Das |  | RSP | 8,148 | 53.21% | Kamini Kumar Das |  | INC | 7,032 | 45.92% | 1,116
32 | Radhakishorpur | 84.17% | Jogesh Chakraborty |  | RSP | 7,070 | 51.44% | Bhanu Gopal Baisnab |  | INC | 6,590 | 47.95% | 480
33 | Matarbari | 86.26% | Maharani Bibhu Kumari Devi |  | INC | 9,195 | 57.41% | Madhab Saha |  | CPI(M) | 6,625 | 41.36% | 2,570
34 | Kakraban | 87.28% | Keshab Chandra Majumder |  | CPI(M) | 8,256 | 52.% | Nanik Chandra Das |  | INC | 7,521 | 47.37% | 735
35 | Rajnagar | 87.29% | Nakul Das |  | CPI(M) | 10,144 | 54.83% | Bhuban Mohan Das |  | INC | 7,951 | 42.98% | 2,193
36 | Belonia | 87.18% | Manoranjan Majumder |  | Independent | 8,081 | 50.75% | Jitendra Lal Das |  | CPI | 7,657 | 48.08% | 424
37 | Santirbazar | 83.85% | Shyama Charan Tripura |  | TUS | 10,478 | 55.63% | Narayan Chandra Kar |  | CPI(M) | 7,759 | 41.19% | 2,719
38 | Hrishyamukh | 90.43% | Badal Chowdhury |  | CPI(M) | 9,204 | 53.87% | Amal Mallik |  | INC | 7,703 | 45.08% | 1,501
39 | Jolaibari | 83.61% | Kashi Ram Reang |  | INC | 6,718 | 51.9% | Brajamohan Jamatia |  | CPI(M) | 6,227 | 48.1% | 491
40 | Manu | 83.5% | Angju Mog |  | INC | 10,304 | 55.2% | Jitendra Kumar Chowdhury |  | CPI(M) | 8,362 | 44.8% | 1,942
41 | Sabroom | 87.5% | Sunil Kumar Chowdhury |  | CPI(M) | 9,118 | 52.55% | Adhir Chandra Bhaumik |  | INC | 7,981 | 46.% | 1,137
42 | Ampinagar | 75.29% | Nagendra Jamatia |  | TUS | 9,449 | 58.99% | Madhu Sudan Kalai |  | CPI(M) | 4,941 | 30.84% | 4,508
43 | Birganj | 79.77% | Jawhar Saha |  | Independent | 8,747 | 48.54% | Syjmal Kanti Saha |  | CPI(M) | 6,352 | 35.25% | 2,395
44 | Raima Valley | 71.66% | Rabindra Debbarma |  | TUS | 7,772 | 51.82% | Anand Mohan Reaja |  | CPI(M) | 7,225 | 48.18% | 547
45 | Kamalpur | 89.17% | Bimal Singha |  | CPI(M) | 7,674 | 59.48% | Kanak Ranjan Ghosh |  | INC | 5,161 | 40.% | 2,513
46 | Surma | 86.82% | Rudreswar Das |  | CPI(M) | 7,763 | 51.45% | Harendra Chandra Das |  | INC | 6,215 | 41.19% | 1,548
47 | Salema | 84.5% | Dinesh Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 8,032 | 51.65% | Bijoy Kumar Jamatia |  | TUS | 6,761 | 43.48% | 1,271
48 | Kulai | 78.96% | Diba Chandra Harangkhal |  | TUS | 8,419 | 50.78% | Kamini Debbarma |  | CPI(M) | 7,480 | 45.12% | 939
49 | Chawamanu | 75.94% | Purna Mohan Tripura |  | CPI(M) | 6,662 | 50.24% | Jadumohan Tripura |  | TUS | 6,598 | 49.76% | 64
50 | Pabiachhara | 81.19% | Bidhu Bhusan Malakar |  | CPI(M) | 7,544 | 50.6% | Subal Chandra Biswas |  | INC | 6,413 | 43.02% | 1,131
51 | Fatikroy | 86.31% | Tarani Mohan Singha |  | CPI(M) | 7,580 | 51.65% | Radhika Ranjan Gupta |  | INC | 5,898 | 40.19% | 1,682
52 | Chandipur | 88.38% | Baidyanath Majumdar |  | CPI(M) | 9,066 | 54.64% | Birajit Sinha |  | INC | 7,398 | 44.59% | 1,668
53 | Kailashahar | 83.9% | Syed Basit Ali |  | INC | 8,116 | 50.82% | Tapan Chakraborty |  | CPI(M) | 7,487 | 46.88% | 629
54 | Kurti | 79.5% | Faizur Rahaman |  | CPI(M) | 7,738 | 57.78% | Abdul Razak Bisharad |  | INC | 4,794 | 35.79% | 2,944
55 | Kadamtala | 76.63% | Samir Kumar Nath |  | CPI(M) | 5,061 | 40.81% | Jyotirmoy Nath |  | INC | 4,727 | 38.11% | 334
56 | Dharmanagar | 79.09% | Amarendra Sarma |  | CPI(M) | 7,309 | 51.59% | Binay Bhushan Ray |  | INC | 5,570 | 39.31% | 1,739
57 | Jubarajnagar | 84.5% | Ram Kumar Nath |  | CPI(M) | 6,074 | 45.23% | Prasanna Kumar Nath |  | Independent | 4,225 | 31.46% | 1,849
58 | Pencharthal | 77.93% | Ratna Prava Das |  | Independent | 5,343 | 34.84% | Mohan Lal Chakma |  | CPI(M) | 5,000 | 32.6% | 343
59 | Panisagar | 79.32% | Subodh Chandra Das |  | CPI(M) | 6,642 | 53.45% | Bibekananda Chakraborty |  | Independent | 3,047 | 24.52% | 3,595
60 | Kanchanpur | 72.88% | Len Prasad Malsai |  | CPI(M) | 6,052 | 43.21% | Drao Kumar Reang |  | TUS | 4,321 | 30.85% | 1,731

## Government Formation

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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) won 37 out of 60 seats in the 60-seat Legislative Assembly. The Indian National Congress (INC) won 12 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Nripen Chakraborty of the CPI-M formed a government as Chief Minister.[8]

## References

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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. ^ "1983 Tripura Election result".
7. ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1983 to the Legislative Assembly of Tripura" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (pdf) on 6 October 2010.
8. ^ "43. India/Tripura (1949-present)". uca.edu.

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