1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
60 seats in the Assembly; 31 seats needed for a majority
	Tripura District Map
Chief Minister before election; President's rule;	Elected Chief Minister ; Sukhamoy Sen Gupta; INC

Tripura

Tripura was recognized as a state in India on January 21, 1972. Before that, Tripura was a Union Territory. The first Legislative Assembly Election as a state was held on March 11, 1972.^[1] The 1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place in a single phase to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India.^[2]

Indian National Congress led by Sukhamoy Sen Gupta, won 41 seats and formed a Government in Tripura

Highlights[edit]

Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on March 11, 1972. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.

Participating Political Parties[edit]

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
State Parties
5	FBL	All India Forward Bloc
Registered(Unrecognised ) Parties
6	TUS	Tripura Upajati Zuba Samiti
Independents
7	IND	Independent

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No. of Constituencies[edit]

Type of Constituencies	GEN	SC	ST	Total
No. of Constituencies	36	5	19	60

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Electors[edit]

	Men	Women	Total
No.of Electors	406,712	359,381	766,093
No.of Electors who Voted	284,765	231,288	516,053
Polling Percentage	70.02%	64.36%	67.36%

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Performance of Women Candidates[edit]

	Men	Women	Total
No.of Contestants	230	04	328
Elected	60	00	60

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Result[edit]

Performance of the political parties in this election
Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	No. of Votes	% of Votes	1967 Seats
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	3	0	345	0.07%	0
Communist Party of India	11	1	15,226	3.04%	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	57	16	189,667	37.82%	2
Indian National Congress	59	41	224,821	44.83%	27
All India Forward Bloc	9	0	5,739	1.14%	-
Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti	10	0	5,883	1.17%	-
Independents	85	2	59,792	11.92%	0
Total	234	60	501,473

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Constituency wise Winners[edit]

AC No	Assembly Constituency Name	Winner Candidates Name	Gender	Party
1	Simna (ST)	Bhadramani Debbarma	M	CPM
2	Modanpur	Radharaman Debnath	M	CPM
3	Bamutia (SC)	Prafulla Kumar Das	M	INC
4	Barjala	Basana Chakrabarty	M	INC
5	Kunjaban	Ashok Kumar Bhatacharyya	M	INC
6	Pratapgarh (SC)	Madhu Sudhan Das	M	INC
7	Agartala Town I I I	Sukhamoy Sen Gupta	M	INC
8	Anandanagar	Tarit Mohan Dasgupta	M	INC
9	Agartala Town I	Ajoy Biswas	M	IND
10	Agartala Town I I	Krishnadas Bhattacharjee	M	INC
11	Old Agartala	Sailesh Chandra Some	M	INC
12	Maulishpur	Jatindra Kumar Majumder	M	INC
13	Mandiabazar (ST)	Kalidas Deb Barma	M	CPM
14	Uttar Debendra Nagar (ST)	Sabhiram Deb Barma	M	CPM
15	Isuanchandranagar	Naresh Chandra Roy	M	INC
16	Takarjala (ST)	Gunapada Jamatia	M	CPM
17	Kamalasagar	Bichitra Mohan Saha	M	INC
18	Bishalgarh	Samir Ranjan Barman	M	INC
19	Charilam (ST)	Niranjan Deb	M	CPM
20	Bishramgonj (ST)	Sudhanwa Deb Barma	M	CPM
21	Boxanagar	Munsur Ali	M	INC
22	Nalchhar (SC)	Benode Behari Das	M	INC
23	Sonamura	Debendra K. Choudhury	M	INC
24	Dhanpur	Samar Choudhury	M	CPM
25	Salgarh	Tapas Dey	M	INC
26	Kakraban	Ajit Ranjan Ghosh	M	INC
27	Radhakishorepur	Usa Ranjan Sen	M	INC
28	Matakbari	Nishi Kanta Sarkar	M	INC
29	Rajnagar	Lakshmi Nag	M	INC
30	Belonia	Jitendra Lal Das	M	CPI
31	Hrishyamukh	Chandra Sekhar Dutta	M	INC
32	Muhuripur (ST)	Achaichhi Mog	M	INC
33	Manu (ST)	Hari Chanran Choudhrury	M	INC
34	Sabroom	Kalipada Banerji	M	INC
35	Chellagong (ST)	Baju Ban Riyan	M	CPM
36	Birgonj	Sushil Ranjan Saha	M	INC
37	Dumburnagar (ST)	Pakhi Tripura	M	CPM
38	Ampinagar (ST)	Bullu Kuki	M	CPM
39	Teliamura	Anil Sarkar	M	CPM
40	Mohar Chhera (ST)	Ananta Harijamatia	M	INC
41	Kalyanpur (ST)	Bidya Ch Deb Barma	M	CPM
42	Pramodnagar (ST)	Manindra Debbarma	M	CPM
43	Khowai	J Prasanna Bhattacharjee	M	INC
44	Asharambari	Nripendra Chakraborty	M	CPM
45	Kamalpur	Sunil Chandra Datta	M	INC
46	Sudma (SC)	Kshitish Chandra Das	M	INC
47	Kulaihower (ST)	Mongchabai Mog	M	INC
48	Chhawmanu (ST)	Purna Mohan Tirpura	M	CPM
49	Fatikroy	Radhika Nandan Gupta	M	INC
50	Pabiachherra (ST)	Gopi Nath Tripura	M	INC
51	Chandipur	Manindra Lal Bhowmik	M	INC
52	Kailashahar	Moulana Abdul Ratif	M	INC
53	Bilaspur (SC)	Subal Ch Biswas	M	INC
54	Jubaraj Nagar	Monoranjan Nath	M	INC
55	Longai (ST)	Hangshadhwaz Dewan	M	INC
56	Kanchanpur (ST)	Raimuni Riang Choudhury	M	INC
57	Deochhera	Abdul Wazid	M	INC
58	Dharmanagar	Amarendra Sarma	M	IND
59	Kadamtala	Benoy Bhushan Banerjee	M	INC
60	Sonichera	Radha Raman Nath	M	INC

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Government formation[edit]

Indian National Congress,(INC) won 41 out of 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The CPI-M won 18 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Sukhamoy Sen Gupta of the INC formed a government as Chief Minister on March 20, 1972.

Prafulla Kumar Das formed a government as Chief Minister on April 1, 1977.

Radhika Ranjan Gupta formed a coalition government with the Janata Party,(JP) and the Left Front,(LF) on July 26, 1977. Chief Minister Radhika Ranjan Gupta resigned, and the state of Tripura was placed under presidential rule from November 5, 1977 to January 5, 1978.^[9]

References[edit]

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[1] "Historical background of Tripura".

[2] "State Election Commission, Tripura".

[3] "List of Participating Political Parties".

[4] "Constituencies-Tripura".

[5] "Total No.of Electors".

[6] "Performance of Women candidates Vs Men candidates".

[7] "1972 Tripura Election result".

[8] "Detailed Result 1972".

[9] "Government formation-1972,Tripura".

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