1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
← 1967 11 March 1972 1977 →
60 seats in the Assembly; 31 seats needed for a majority
	Tripura District Map
CM before election; President's rule;	Elected CM ; Sukhamoy Sen Gupta; INC

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.

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#	Type	Abbreviation	Party
1	National Party	BJS	Bharatiya Jan Sangh
2		CPI	Communist Party of India
3		CPM	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4		INC	Indian National Congress
5	State Party	FBL	All India Forward Bloc
6	Registered (Unrecognised) Party	TUS	Tripura Upajati Zuba Samiti
7	Independents	IND	Independent

	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%

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


Party	Seats contested	Seats won	No. of votes	% of votes	1967 Seats
Indian National Congress	59	41	224,821	44.83%	27
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	57	16	189,667	37.82%	2
Communist Party of India	11	1	15,226	3.04%	1
Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti	10	0	5,883	1.17%	-
All India Forward Bloc	9	0	5,739	1.14%	-
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	3	0	345	0.07%	0
Independents	85	2	59,792	11.92%	0
Total	234	60	501,473
Source: ECI^[7]

Assembly Constituency		Turnout	Winner					Runner Up					Margin
#k	Names	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Margin
1	Simna	75.04%	Bhadramani Debbarma		CPI(M)	4,594	53.02%	S. B. Kishore Debbarman		INC	3,656	42.2%	938
2	Mohanpur	66.05%	Radharaman Debnath		CPI(M)	4,277	51.58%	Pram D. Ranjan Dasgupta		INC	3,592	43.32%	685
3	Bamutia	71.4%	Prafulla Kumar Das		INC	4,862	61.72%	Brajendra Biswas		CPI(M)	3,015	38.28%	1,847
4	Barjala	67.67%	Basana Chakraborty		INC	3,733	55.67%	Gouri Bhattacharjee		CPI(M)	2,307	34.4%	1,426
5	Kunjaban	65.46%	Ashok Kumar Bhattacharya		INC	7,033	52.38%	Kanu Ghosh		CPI(M)	5,633	41.95%	1,400
6	Pratapgarh	62.8%	Madhusudan Das		INC	3,862	49.%	Jadab Chandra Majumder		CPI(M)	3,593	45.59%	269
7	Agartala Town III	59.74%	Sukhamoy Sen Gupta		INC	4,415	49.44%	Supriyo Bhowmik		CPI(M)	2,963	33.18%	1,452
8	Ananda Nagar	68.21%	Tarit Mohan Dasgupta		INC	4,341	45.07%	Khagen Das		CPI(M)	4,159	43.18%	182
9	Agartala Town I	64.27%	Ajoy Biswas		Independent	3,810	50.28%	Renuka Chakraborty		INC	2,742	36.19%	1,068
10	Agartala Town II	65.01%	Krishnadas Bhattacharjee		INC	3,009	48.01%	Ashoke Chakraborty		CPI(M)	2,322	37.05%	687
11	Old Agartala	70.44%	Sailesh Chandra Some		INC	5,098	56.76%	Jagadish Chandra Dey		CPI(M)	2,217	24.69%	2,881
12	Majlishpur	70.59%	Jatindra Kumar Majumder		INC	3,724	54.79%	Bhanu Gosh		CPI(M)	3,073	45.21%	651
13	Mandaibazar	65.98%	Kalidas Debbarma		CPI(M)	4,717	66.28%	Bagala Prasad Debbarma		INC	1,664	23.38%	3,053
14	Uttar Debendranagar	69.%	Sabhiram Debbarma		CPI(M)	4,208	56.51%	Rabindra K. Debbarma		INC	1,949	26.18%	2,259
15	Ishanchandranagar	69.56%	Naresh Chandra Roy		INC	3,349	46.62%	Mati Lal Sarkar		CPI(M)	3,328	46.33%	21
16	Takarjala	65.21%	Gunapada Jamatia		CPI(M)	3,461	41.37%	Mahendra Debbarma		INC	3,049	36.45%	412
17	Kamalasagar	75.41%	Bichitra Mohan Saha		INC	3,936	52.56%	Nagendra Deb		CPI(M)	2,316	30.93%	1,620
18	Bishalgarh	73.54%	Samir Ranjan Barman		INC	2,777	32.32%	Babul Sengupta		CPI(M)	2,638	30.7%	139
19	Charilam	67.03%	Niranjan Deb		CPI(M)	2,805	36.78%	Monmohan Debbarma		INC	2,474	32.44%	331
20	Bishramganj	69.65%	Sudhanwa Debbarma		CPI(M)	2,745	35.12%	Deuan Chandra Tripura		INC	2,479	31.72%	266
21	Boxanagar	74.34%	Munsur Ali		INC	3,787	54.69%	Phani Bhushan Bhakta		CPI(M)	2,097	30.29%	1,690
22	Nalchar	67.01%	Benode Behari Das		INC	4,078	48.77%	Hari Madhab Bhowmik		CPI(M)	3,199	38.26%	879
23	Sonamura	65.74%	Debendra Kishore Chowdhury		INC	3,340	55.44%	Sultan Miah		Independent	1,504	24.97%	1,836
24	Dhanpur	67.66%	Samar Chowdhury		CPI(M)	3,530	48.64%	Dhirendra Kumar Sengupta		INC	2,757	37.99%	773
25	Salgarh	69.29%	Tapash Dey		INC	3,966	48.67%	Abani Mohan Bhowmik		CPI(M)	2,907	35.67%	1,059
26	Kakraban	69.4%	Ajit Ranjan Ghosh		INC	3,387	43.19%	Kashab Chandra Majumder		CPI(M)	2,849	36.33%	538
27	Radhakishorpur	72.7%	Usha Ranjan Sen		INC	4,888	48.37%	Sushil Mukerjee		CPI(M)	3,509	34.73%	1,379
28	Matarbari	67.34%	Nishi Kanta Sarkar		INC	3,851	45.7%	Naresh Chandra Ghosh		CPI(M)	3,215	38.16%	636
29	Rajnagar	63.83%	Lakshmi Nag		INC	3,265	34.63%	Badal Chowdhury		CPI(M)	2,908	30.85%	357
30	Belonia	58.79%	Jitendra Lal Das		CPI	3,992	43.57%	Suresh Chandra Chowdhury		INC	3,627	39.59%	365
31	Hrishyamukh	63.1%	Chandra Sekhar Dutta		INC	5,911	66.14%	Amalendu Chakraborty		CPI(M)	2,613	29.24%	3,298
32	Muhuripur	58.6%	Achaichhi Mog		INC	4,394	55.93%	Brajmohan Jamatia		CPI(M)	2,583	32.88%	1,811
33	Manu	67.92%	Hari Chanran Choudhrury		INC	4,764	54.25%	Thaingya Mog		CPI(M)	3,157	35.95%	1,607
34	Sabroom	72.9%	Kalipada Banerji		INC	6,180	66.31%	Sunil Kumar Chowdhury		CPI(M)	3,140	33.69%	3,040
35	Chellagong	59.33%	Baju Ban Riyan		CPI(M)	3,032	41.25%	Panji Ham Reang		INC	2,989	40.67%	43
36	Birganj	66.57%	Sushil Ranjan Saha		INC	3,645	46.61%	Syamal Kantisaha		CPI(M)	3,142	40.17%	503
37	Dumburnagar	53.6%	Pakhi Tripura		CPI(M)	3,272	60.15%	Rajprasad Chowdhury		INC	1,664	30.59%	1,608
38	Ampinagar	59.63%	Bullu Kuki		CPI(M)	3,663	57.84%	Gopinath Jamatia		Independent	2,140	33.79%	1,523
39	Teliamura	73.05%	Anil Sarkar		CPI(M)	5,458	51.19%	Bir Chandra Barman		INC	3,847	36.08%	1,611
40	Mohar Chhera	72.83%	Ananta Hari Jamatia		INC	5,351	51.36%	Joy Mohan Debbarma		CPI(M)	3,691	35.43%	1,660
41	Kalyanpur	84.55%	Bidya Chandra Debbarma		CPI(M)	10,273	77.36%	Krishna Kumar Debbarma		INC	3,006	22.64%	7,267
42	Pramodenagar	79.25%	Manindra Debbarma		CPI(M)	7,439	61.25%	Nanda Kumar Debbarma		INC	4,707	38.75%	2,732
43	Khowai	76.52%	J Prasanna Bhattacharjee		INC	5,069	56.35%	Kaminisingh		CPI(M)	3,162	35.15%	1,907
44	Asharambari	82.01%	Nripen Chakraborty		CPI(M)	6,290	58.92%	Arun Kar		INC	4,137	38.75%	2,153
45	Kamalpur	75.44%	Sunil Chandra Datta		INC	4,422	49.45%	Makhan Datta		CPI(M)	3,768	42.14%	654
46	Surma	77.2%	Kshitish Chandra Das		INC	4,737	48.73%	Rudreswar Das		CPI(M)	4,202	43.23%	535
47	Kulaihower	67.21%	Mongchabai Mog		INC	6,380	55.81%	Dinesh Debbarma		CPI(M)	4,662	40.78%	1,718
48	Chawamanu	50.4%	Purna Mohan Tripura		CPI(M)	3,164	48.03%	Ghanshyam Dewan		INC	2,189	33.23%	975
49	Fatikroy	67.29%	Radhika Ranjan Gupta		INC	4,019	38.55%	Tarani Mohan Singha		CPI(M)	2,966	28.45%	1,053
50	Pabiachhara	60.46%	Gopi Nath Tripura		INC	3,973	50.09%	K. Mohan Debbarma		CPI(M)	3,279	41.34%	694
51	Chandipur	77.71%	Manindralal Bhowmik		INC	3,418	48.94%	Baidyanath Majumdar		CPI(M)	3,138	44.93%	280
52	Kailashahar	70.73%	Moulana Abdul Ratif		INC	4,299	55.43%	Bonode Dey		Independent	1,720	22.18%	2,579
53	Bilaspur	70.01%	Subal Chandra Biswas		INC	4,228	56.82%	Barindra Malaker		CPI(M)	2,230	29.97%	1,998
54	Jubarajnagar	65.03%	Monoranjan Nath		INC	3,777	51.37%	Ram Kumar Nath		CPI(M)	2,180	29.65%	1,597
55	Longai	57.45%	Hangshadhwaz Dewan		INC	3,690	46.41%	Indu Madhav Chakma		CPI(M)	2,156	27.12%	1,534
56	Kanchanpur	48.99%	Raimuni Reang Chowdhury		INC	3,126	46.66%	Len Prasad Reang		CPI(M)	2,138	31.92%	988
57	Deocherra	62.76%	Abdul Wazid		INC	3,399	44.97%	Karunamoy Nath Chowdhury		Independent	1,870	24.74%	1,529
58	Dharmanagar	66.35%	Amarendra Sarma		Independent	3,728	47.21%	Debiprasad Purkayastha		INC	3,489	44.19%	239
59	Kadamtala	61.99%	Benoy Bhushan Banerjee		INC	2,684	40.74%	Abdul Rup		Independent	1,717	26.06%	967
60	Sonichera	61.18%	Radha Raman Nath		INC	2,637	33.61%	Abdul Matin Chowdhury		Independent	1,551	19.77%	1,086

1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

Participating political parties

No. of constituencies

Electors

Performance of women candidates

Result

Results by party

Results by constituency

Government formation

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