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1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

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1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

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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

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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

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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

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No. of Constituencies

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

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Electors

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

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Performance of Women Candidates

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

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Result

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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

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  • 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

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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

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  1. ^ a b "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.