1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
← 1962 21 Feb 1967 1972 →
All 30 seats of the Legislative Assembly; 16 seats needed for a majority
CM before election; Sachindra Lal Singh; INC	Elected CM ; Sachindra Lal Singh; INC

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]

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

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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

	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%

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


Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	Votes	Vote %	1963 Seats
Indian National Congress	30	27	251,345	57.95%	No data available
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	16	2	93,739	21.61%	No data available
Communist Party of India	7	1	34,562	7.97%	No data available
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	5	0	1,506	0.35%	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]

Assembly Constituency		Turnout	Winner					Runner Up					Margin
#k	Names	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Margin
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%	Hlura 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

1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

Highlights

Participating Political Parties

No. of Constituencies

Electors

Performance of Women Candidates

Result

Results by party

Results by constituency

Government formation

References

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