1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

21 Feb 1967
All 30 seats of the Legislative Assembly 16 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Sachindra Lal Singh - Party INC CPI(M) Leader's seat Agartala Sadar II - Last election No data available No data available Seats won 27 2 Seat change No data available No data available Popular vote 251,345 93,739 Percentage 57.95% 21.61%
CM before election Sachindra Lal Singh INC Elected CM Sachindra Lal Singh INC

Tripura

Until 1972, Tripura was a Union Territory.^[1] The 1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place on 21 February 1967 in a single phase to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 30 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India.^[2]

Indian National Congress led by Sachindra Lal Singh, won 27 seats and formed a Government in Tripura union territory.

Highlights

Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on February 21, 1967. The election were held in a single phase for all the 30 assembly constituencies.

Participating Political Parties

Num	Partytype Abbreviation	Party
National Parties
1	BJS	Bharatiya Jan Sangh
2	CPI	Communist Party of India
3	CPM	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4	INC	Indian National Congress
5	SSP	Sanghata Socialist Party
Independents
6	IND	Independent

^[3]

No. of Constituencies

Type of Constituencies	GEN	SC	ST	Total
No. of Constituencies	18	3	9	30

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Electors

	Men	Women	Total
No.of Electors	605,934	-	605,934
No.of Electors who Voted	450,334	-	450,334
Polling Percentage	74.32%	-	74.32%

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Performance of Women Candidates

	Men	Women	Total
No.of Contestants	86	01	87
Elected	30	00	30

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Result

Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	Votes	Vote %	1963 Seats
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	5	0	1,506	0.35%	No data available
Communist Party of India	7	1	34,562	7.97%	No data available
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	16	2	93,739	21.61%	No data available
Indian National Congress	30	27	251,345	57.95%	No data available
Sanghata Socialist Party	1	0	83	0.02%	No data available
Independents	28	0	52,457	12.10%	No data available
Total	87	30	433,692
Source: ECI[7]

Results by constituency

• Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituency^[8]

Assembly Constituency		Turnout	Winner					Runner Up					Margin
#k	Names	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%
1	Mohanpur	74.%	Pram D. Ranjan Dasgupta		INC	8,666	55.27%	N. Chakravorty		CPI(M)	6,882	43.89%	1,784
2	Agartala Sadar I	76.68%	B. B. Das		INC	8,117	60.38%	M. K. Roy		CPI(M)	3,468	25.8%	4,649
3	Agartala Sadar II	73.96%	S. Singh		INC	11,445	64.42%	S. R. Chanda		CPI(M)	5,837	32.85%	5,608
4	Agartala Sadar III	75.57%	T. M. D. Gupta		INC	8,872	57.18%	S. S. Gupta		Independent	5,283	34.05%	3,589
5	Agartala Town	73.11%	K. Bhattacharjee		INC	6,853	54.26%	A. Islam		CPI	4,250	33.65%	2,603
6	Old Agartala	81.04%	J. K. Majumder		INC	8,672	54.6%	Sailesh Chandra Some		Independent	7,211	45.4%	1,461
7	Uttar Debendranagar	75.32%	A. D. Barma		CPI(M)	10,559	72.09%	B. P. D. Barma		INC	4,088	27.91%	6,471
8	Takarjala	67.79%	M. D. Barma		INC	6,945	54.84%	B. D. Barma		Independent	5,720	45.16%	1,225
9	Bishalgarh	74.02%	U. L. Singh		INC	8,072	55.59%	B. M. Saha		Independent	6,136	42.26%	1,936
10	Charilam	73.27%	A. Debbarma		CPI	7,230	50.68%	K. C. D. Barma		INC	7,037	49.32%	193
11	Sonamura North	82.1%	Debendra Kishore Chowdhury		INC	8,807	74.%	D. C. S. Gupta		Independent	2,439	20.49%	6,368
12	Sonamura South	83.28%	B. Ali		INC	7,888	65.58%	B. R. Pal		Independent	4,140	34.42%	3,748
13	Salgarh	74.8%	E. A. Chowdhury		INC	8,424	71.09%	N. C. Ghose		CPI(M)	2,335	19.7%	6,089
14	Radhakishorpur	72.54%	N. K. Sarkar		INC	10,878	67.87%	Sunil Krishna Das		CPI	3,117	19.45%	7,761
15	Belonia	77.29%	U. K. Roy		INC	10,502	60.05%	Jitendra Lal Das		CPI	6,691	38.26%	3,811
16	Muhuripur	73.%	S. C. Chowdhury		INC	11,584	76.29%	Hiura Aung Mog		CPI	2,875	18.93%	8,709
17	Sabroom	77.56%	A. Mag		INC	11,638	69.93%	A. Mag		CPI	4,642	27.89%	6,996
18	Birganj	64.36%	B. B. Riyan		INC	6,152	55.49%	R. K. D. Barma		CPI(M)	4,348	39.22%	1,804
19	Dumburnagar	61.5%	R. C. D. Rankhal		INC	5,221	56.72%	S. D. Barma		CPI(M)	3,984	43.28%	1,237
20	Teliamura	73.53%	P. K. Das		INC	11,558	64.6%	A. C. Sarker		CPI(M)	5,435	30.38%	6,123
21	Kalyanpur	89.71%	Bidya Chandra Debbarma		CPI(M)	14,330	62.57%	N. K. D. Barma		INC	8,572	37.43%	5,758
22	Khowai	85.14%	S. C. Datta		INC	10,964	61.06%	J. Bhattacharjee		Independent	6,650	37.03%	4,314
23	Kamalpur	79.11%	K. C. Das		INC	10,141	63.07%	N. K. Namadas		CPI(M)	5,939	36.93%	4,202
24	Kulaihower	58.9%	G. Dewan		INC	8,406	57.05%	D. D. Barma		CPI(M)	6,329	42.95%	2,077
25	Fatikroy	69.68%	Radhika Ranjan Gupta		INC	7,750	55.9%	Rakhal Raj Kumar		CPI	5,757	41.52%	1,993
26	Kailashahar	81.63%	M. L. Bhowmik		INC	8,190	51.09%	B. Majumder		CPI(M)	7,841	48.91%	349
27	Dharmanagar South	74.81%	M. Nath		INC	8,354	64.12%	R. K. Nath		CPI(M)	4,674	35.88%	3,680
28	Kanchanpur	57.06%	R. P. Chowdhury		INC	5,192	64.63%	Mandida Reang		CPI(M)	2,485	30.93%	2,707
29	Dharmanagar North	73.85%	B. B. Banerjee		INC	6,467	52.59%	D. Chakraborty		CPI(M)	3,437	27.95%	3,030
30	Kadamtala	68.91%	A. Wazid		INC	5,890	47.35%	S. D. Nath		CPI(M)	5,856	47.08%	34

Government formation

Indian National Congress,(INC) won a majority of the 30 seats in the assembly. Sachindra Lal Singh of the INC continued as Chief Minister.^[1]

References

1. "43. India/Tripura (1949-present)". uca.edu.
2. "Official Website of State Election Commission, Government of Tripura, India". sec.tripura.gov.in.
3. "List of Participating Political Parties".
4. "Constituencies-Tripura".
5. "Total No.of Electors".
6. "Performance of Women candidates Vs Men candidates".
7. "1967 Tripura Election result".
8. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Tripura" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (pdf) on 6 October 2010.