1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
30 seats in the Assembly; 16 seats needed for a majority
Chief Minister before election; Sachindra Lal Singh; INC	Elected Chief Minister ; 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[]

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

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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[]

Performance of the political parties in this election
Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	No. of Votes	% of Votes	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
	1	0	83	0.02%	No data available
Independents	28	0	52,457	12.10%	No data available
Total	87	30	433,692

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Constituency wise Winners[]

AC No	Assembly Constituency Name	Winner Candidates Name	Gender	Party
1	Mohanpur	P . R . D . Gupta	M	INC
2	Agartalasadar I (SC)	B . B . Das	M	INC
3	Agartalasadar II	S . Singh	M	INC
4	Agartala Sadar III	T . M . D . Gupta	M	INC
5	Agartala Town	K . Bhattacharjee	M	INC
6	Old Agartala	J . K . Majumder	M	INC
7	Uttar Debendranagar (ST)	A . D . Barma	M	CPM
8	Takarjala (ST)	M . D . Barma	M	INC
9	Bishalgarh	U . L . Singh	M	INC
10	Charilam (ST)	A. Debbarma	M	CPI
11	Sonamura North	D . K . Chaudhuri	M	INC
12	Sonamura South	B . Ali	M	INC
13	Salgarh	E . A . Choudhury	M	INC
14	Radhakishorepur	N . K . Sarkar	M	INC
15	Belonia	U . K . Roy	M	INC
16	Muhuripur	S . C . Choudhury	M	INC
17	Sabroom (ST)	A . Mag	M	INC
18	Birganj (ST)	B . B . Riyan	M	INC
19	Dumburnagar (ST)	R . C . D . Rankhal	M	INC
20	Teliamura (SC)	P . K . Das	M	INC
21	Kalyanpur (ST)	B . C . D . Barma	M	CPM
22	Khowai	S . C . Datta	M	INC
23	Kamalpur (SC)	K . C . Das	M	INC
24	Kulaihour (ST)	G . Dewan	M	INC
25	Fatikroy	R . R . Gupta	M	INC
26	Kailashahar	M . L . Bhowmik	M	INC
27	Dharmanagar South	M . Nath	M	INC
28	Kanchanpur (ST)	R . P . Choudhury	M	INC
29	Dharmanagar North	B . B . Banerjee	M	INC
30	Kadamtala	A . Wazid	M	INC

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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.^[9]

References[]

[1] "Tripura union territory".

[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] "1967 Tripura Election result".

[8] "Detailed Result 1967".

[9] "Government formation-1967,Tripura".

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