Tripura East (Lok Sabha constituency)

Tripura East
Tripura East
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Rebati Tripura
Parliamentary Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1952
Reservation	Scheduled Tribes
State	Tripura
Assembly Constituencies	30: Ramchandraghat, Khowai, Asharambari, Kalyanpur-Pramodenagar, Teliamura, Krishnapur, Hrishyamukh, Jolaibari, Manu, Sabroom, Ampinagar, Amarpur, Karbook, Raima Valley, Kamalpur, Surma, Ambassa, Karmachhara, Chawamanu, Pabiachhara, Fatikroy, Chandipur, Kailashahar, Kadamtala-Kurti, Bagbassa, Dharmanagar, Jubarajnagar, Panisagar, Pencharthal and Kanchanpur

Tripura East is one of the two Lok Sabha constituencies in Tripura state in northeastern India.^[1] The seat is reserved for scheduled tribes. In the first elections in 1952 the seat was represented by Dasarath Deb, the leader of the Ganamukti Parishad uprising.

Assembly segments[]

Tripura East Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:^[2]

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	MLA	Party	Party Leading (in 2019)
24	Ramchandraghat	ST	West Tripura	Prasanta Debbarma	IPFT	INC
25	Khowai	None	Khowai	Nirmal Biswas	CPI(M)	BJP
26	Asharambari	ST	West Tripura	Mevar Kumar Jamatia	IPFT	INC
27	Kalyanpur-Pramodenagar	None	West Tripura	Pinaki Das Choudhuri	BJP	BJP
28	Teliamura	ST	Khowai	Kalyani Roy	BJP	BJP
29	Krishanpur	ST	North Tripura	Atul Debbarma	BJP	BJP
37	Hrishyamukh	None	South Tripura	Badal Choudhury	CPI(M)	BJP
38	Jolaibari	ST	South Tripura	Jashabir Tripura	CPI(M)	BJP
39	Manu	ST	Dhalai	Pravat Chowdhury	CPI(M)	BJP
40	Majlishpur	None	South Tripura	Shankar Roy	BJP	BJP
41	Ampinagar	ST	South Tripura	Sindhu Chandra Jamatia	IPFT	INC
42	Amarpur	None	Gomati	Ranjit Das	BJP	BJP
43	Karbook	ST	South Tripura	Burbu Mohan Tripura	BJP	BJP
44	Raima Valley	ST	Dhalai	Dhananjay Tripura	IPFT	BJP
45	Kamalpur	None	Dhalai	Manoj Kanti Deb	BJP	BJP
46	Surma	SC	Dhalai	Ashish Das	BJP	BJP
47	Ambassa	ST	Dhalai	Parimal Debbarma	BJP	BJP
48	Karmachhara		Dhalai	Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl	BJP	INC
49	Chawamanu		Dhalai	Sambhu Lal Chakma	BJP	BJP
50	Pabiachhara	SC	North Tripura	Bhagaban Das	BJP	BJP
51	Fatikroy	SC	West Tripura	Sudhangshu Das	BJP	BJP
52	Chandipur	None	Unakoti	Tapan Chakraborty	CPI(M)	BJP
53	Kailashahar		Unakoti	Mabaswar Ali	CPI(M)	INC
54	Kadamtala-Kurti		North Tripura	Islam Uddin	CPI(M)	BJP
55	Bagbassa		North Tripura	Bijita Nath	CPI(M)	BJP
56	Dharmanagar		North Tripura	Biswa Bandhu Sen	BJP	BJP
57	Jubarajnagar		North Tripura	Ramendra Chandra Debnath	CPI(M)	BJP
58	Panisagar		North Tripura	Binay Bhushan Das	BJP	BJP
59	Pencharthal	ST	North Tripura	Santana Chakma	BJP	BJP
60	Kanchanpur	ST	North Tripura	Prem Kumar Reang	IPFT	BJP

Members of Parliament[]

Election	Member
1952	Dasarath Deb	Communist Party of India
1957
1962
1967	Kirit Bikram Kishore Deb Barman	Indian National Congress
1971	Dasarath Deb	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1977	Kirit Bikram Kishore Deb Barman	Indian National Congress
1980	Baju Ban Riyan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1984	Baju Ban Riyan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1989	Kirit Bikram Kishore Deb Barman	Indian National Congress
1991	Bibhu Kumari Devi	Indian National Congress
1996	Baju Ban Riyan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1998
1999
2004
2009
2014	Jitendra Choudhury
2019	Rebati Tripura	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results[]

General election 1952[]

Indian general election, 1951–52: Tripura East^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Dasarath Deb	42,866	53.91	N/A
	INC	Sachindra Lal Singh	29,650	37.29	N/A
	BJS	Nagendra Chaudhary	7,004	8.81	N/A
Margin of victory			13,216	16.62	N/A
Turnout			79,520	44.27	N/A
	CPI win (new seat)

General election 1957[]

For this election Tripura became one Lok Sabha constituency with two representatives in parliament. The two representatives were Dasarath Deb of the Communist Party of India and Bangshi Deb Barma of the Indian National Congress.

General election 1962[]

1962 Indian general election: Tripura East^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Dasarath Deb	77,539	50.38	N/A
	INC	Jitendra Mohan Deb Barma	67,491	43.85	N/A
	Eastern Indian Tribal Union	Sneha Kumar Chakma	8,887	5.77	N/A
Margin of victory			10,048	6.53	N/A
Turnout			157,624	65.81	N/A
	CPI hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1967[]

1967 Indian general election: Tripura East^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kirit Bikram Kishore Deb Barman	129,618	58.74	N/A
	CPI (M)	Dasarath Deb	91,032	41.26	N/A
Margin of victory
Turnout			226,756	74.18
	INC gain from CPI (M)		Swing	N/A

General election 1971[]

1971 Indian general election: Tripura East^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	Dasarath Deb	91,192	41.98
	INC	Ramendra Kishore Deb Barma	69,750	32.11
	Independent	Kishore Deb Barma Bahadur	44,559	20.51
	CPI	Birchandra Deb Barma	11,706	5.39
Margin of victory					N/A
Turnout			226,116	62.66
	CPI (M) gain from INC		Swing	N/A

General election 1977[]

1977 Indian general election: Tripura East^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kirit Bikram Kishore Deb Barman	133,907	47.64	N/A
	CPI (M)	Dasarath Deb	120,724	42.95
	Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti	Bijoy Kumar Harangkhawl	13,255	4.72
	CPI	Aghore Deb Barma	13,180	4.69
Margin of victory					N/A
Turnout			291,091	66.90
	INC gain from CPI (M)		Swing	N/A

General election 1980[]

1980 Indian general election: Tripura East^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI (M)		196,199	48.19
	Independent	Ratnapravana Das	102,293	25.13
	Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti	Syamacharan Trippura	61,398	15.08
	INC(I)	Kashi Ram Reang	44,819	11.01
	JP	Hangsadwaj Dewan	2395	0.59
Margin of victory			93,906
Turnout			407,104	79.38
	CPI (M) gain from INC		Swing

General election 1984[]

1984 Indian general election: Tripura East^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI (M)		231,023	52.40
	INC	Kirit Bikram Kishore Deb Barman	189,960	43.08
	Independent	Sneha Kumar Chakma	14,671	3.33
	Independent	Niranjan Deb Barma	5,247	1.19
Margin of victory
Turnout			448,147	76.36
	CPI (M) hold		Swing

General election 1989[]

1989 Indian general election: Tripura East^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Kirit Bikram Kishore Deb Barman	292,190	49.30
	CPI (M)	Baju Banriyan	283,789	47.89
	AMB	Sudhangshu Sen	10,202	1.72
	Independent	Debendra Malsom	5,124	0.86
	Independent	Akshayananda Uchai	1,323	0.22
Margin of victory
Turnout			600,724	81.85
	INC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

General election 1991[]

1991 Indian general election: Tripura East^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Bibhu Kumari Devi	377,436	82.06
	CPI (M)	Baju Banriyan	30,783	6.69
	AMB	Minati Roy	22,762	4.95
	BJP	Maharaj Kumar Nakshatra Bikram Debbarma	14,697	3.20
	Independent	Ananta Debbarma	7,186	1.56
	CPI(ML)(L)	Debendra Malsom	5,915	1.29
	IPF	Kamal Singh Jamatia	1,157	0.25
Margin of victory
Turnout			477,132	64.23
	INC hold		Swing

General election 2004[]

2004 Indian general election: Tripura East^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI (M)	Baju Ban Riyan	414,230	66.48
	BJP	Pulin Bihari Dewan	103,494	16.61
	INC	Jadu Mohan Tripura	76,927	12.35
	Independent	Dija Raj Tripura	14,027	2.25
	AMB	Karna Dhan Chakma	7,941	1.27
	CPI(ML)L	Charai Muni Jamatia	6,475	1.04
Margin of victory			310,736	49.79
Turnout			624,094	66.62
	CPI (M) hold		Swing

General election 2009[]

2009 Indian general election: Tripura East^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	Baju Ban Riyan	521,084	63.47	–3.01
	INC	Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl	225,503	27.47	+15.12
	BJP	Pulin Bihari Dewan	33,989	4.14	–12.47
Margin of victory			295,581	36.00	–13.79
Turnout			820,984	83.06	20.01
	CPI (M) hold		Swing	+4.68

General election 2014[]

2014 Indian general election: Tripura East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	Jitendra Choudhury	6,23,771	65.47	+2.00
	INC	Sachitra Debbarma	1,39,413	14.63	-12.78
	AITC	Bhriguram Reang	77,028	8.08	+7.57
	BJP	Parikshit Debbarma	60,613	6.36	+4.13
Margin of victory			4,84,358	50.84	+14.84
Turnout			9,51,080	83.41
	CPI (M) hold		Swing

General election 2019[]

2019 Indian general election: Tripura East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rebati Tripura	4,82,126	46.12	+40.13
	INC	Maharaj Kumari	2,77,836	26.58	+12.78
	CPI (M)	Jitendra Choudhury	2,00,963	19.22	-46.00
	IPFT	Narendra Chandra Debbarma	45,304	4.33
Margin of victory			2,04,290	20.84	+14.84
Turnout			10,46,123	82.90
	BJP gain from CPI (M)		Swing

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