2003 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

2003 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
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All 60 seats in the Assembly; 31 seats needed for a majority
	Tripura District Map
CM before election; Manik Sarkar; CPI(M)	Elected CM ; Manik Sarkar; CPI(M)

The 2003 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place in a single phase on 26 February to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies in Tripura, India. The counting of votes occurred on 1 March 2003. The results were ready within the day.^[1]

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), led by Manik Sarkar, won 38 seats and formed the government in Tripura^[2]

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Party		Alliance	Seats contested
	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))	Left Front	55
	Communist Party of India (CPI)	Left Front	2
	Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP)	Left Front	2
	All India Forward Bloc (AIFB)	Left Front	1
	Indian National Congress (INC)	Congress Alliance	42
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	NDA	21
	Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT)		18
	All India Trinamool Congress		18
	Nationalist Congress Party	Congress Alliance	12
	Lok Janshakti Party		10
	Amra Bangali		9
	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation		8
	Janata Dal (United)	NDA	4
	Independents (IND)		52
Total			254

Partytype Abbreviation	Party
National Parties
1	BJP	Bhartiya Janta Party
2	CPI	Communist Party of India
3	CPM	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4	INC	Indian National Congress
5	NCP	Nationalist Congress Party
State Parties
6	AITC	All India Trinamool Congress
7	INPT	Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra
8	RSP	Revolutionary Socialist Party
State Parties - Other States
9	CPI(ML)(L)	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) (Liberation)
10	FBL	All India Forward Bloc
11	JD(U)	Janata Dal (United)
Registered (Unrecognised) Parties
12	AMB	Amra Bangalee
13	LJNSP	Lok Jan Shakti Party
Independents
14	IND	Independent

	Men	Women	Total
No.of Electors	1,000,309	931,411	1,931,720
No.of Electors who Voted	809,492	710,925	1,520,417
Polling Percentage	80.92%	76.33%	78.71%

	Men	Women	Total
No.of Contestants	235	19	254
Elected	58	02	60


Party	Seats contested	Seats won	No. of votes	% of votes	1998 Seats
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	55	38	711,119	46.82%	38
Indian National Congress	42	13	498,749	32.84%	13
Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra	18	6	189,186	12.46%	4
Revolutionary Socialist Party	2	2	28,688	1.89%	2
Communist Party of India	2	1	23,443	1.54%	1
Bharatiya Janata Party	21	0	20,032	1.32%	0
All India Trinamool Congress	18	0	6,493	0.43%	0
Nationalist Congress Party	12	0	4,553	0.30%	0
Independents	52	0	12,788	0.84%	2
Total	254	60	1,518,789
Source: ECI^[7]

2003 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

Highlights

Participating Political Parties

No. of Constituencies

Electors

Performance of Women Candidates

Results

Results by party

Results by constituency

Government Formation

References

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Assembly Constituency		Turnout	Winner					Runner Up					Margin
#k	Names	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Margin
1	Simna	73.91%	Pranab Debbarma		CPI(M)	10,686	51.32%	Rabindra Debbarma		INPT	9,666	46.42%	1,020
2	Mohanpur	76.99%	Ratan Lal Nath		INC	12,947	56.95%	Sanjit Debnath		CPI(M)	8,974	39.48%	3,973
3	Bamutia	81.45%	Prakash Chandra Das		INC	13,170	50.46%	Haricharan Sarkar		CPI(M)	12,539	48.04%	631
4	Barjala	81.96%	Dipak Kumar Roy		INC	18,851	50.26%	Kalyani Dey(Mitra)		CPI(M)	17,821	47.51%	1,030
5	Khayerpur	79.5%	Pabitra Kar		CPI(M)	16,429	57.01%	Lakhsmi Nag		INC	12,390	42.99%	4,039
6	Agartala	75.88%	Sudip Roy Barman		INC	18,656	52.24%	Sankar Das		CPI(M)	16,046	44.94%	2,610
7	Ramnagar	75.89%	Surajit Datta		INC	14,431	54.1%	Samir Chakraborty		CPI(M)	11,608	43.51%	2,823
8	Town Bordowali	73.74%	Ashok Kumar Bhattacharya		INC	12,010	53.16%	Brajagopal Roy		AIFB	9,844	43.57%	2,166
9	Banamalipur	73.4%	Gopal Chandra Roy		INC	10,437	52.03%	Prashanta Kapali		CPI	8,907	44.4%	1,530
10	Majlishpur	81.93%	Manik Dey		CPI(M)	14,908	53.8%	Dipak Nag		INC	12,144	43.83%	2,764
11	Mandaibazar	69.73%	Manoranjan Debbarma		CPI(M)	13,448	52.85%	Jagadish Debbarma		INPT	11,998	47.15%	1,450
12	Takarjala	62.11%	Rajeshwar Debbarma		INPT	12,784	77.75%	Baijayanti Kalai		CPI(M)	3,101	18.86%	9,683
13	Pratapgarh	80.96%	Anil Sarkar		CPI(M)	24,638	54.26%	Narayan Das		INC	18,784	41.37%	5,854
14	Badharghat	80.01%	Subrata Chakraborty		CPI(M)	22,773	49.21%	Dilip Sarkar		INC	21,825	47.16%	948
15	Kamalasagar	82.1%	Narayan Chandra Chowdhury		CPI(M)	13,936	54.86%	Arun Bhowmik		INC	10,615	41.79%	3,321
16	Bishalgarh	83.33%	Samir Ranjan Barman		INC	12,414	51.24%	Bhanu Lal Saha		CPI(M)	10,820	44.66%	1,594
17	Golaghati	71.86%	Ashok Debbarma		INC	10,080	48.55%	Niranjan Debbarma		CPI(M)	10,079	48.54%	1
18	Charilam	74.2%	Narayan Rupini		CPI(M)	10,573	48.07%	Narendra Chandra Debbarma		INPT	10,517	47.81%	56
19	Boxanagar	86.2%	Sahid Chowdhury		CPI(M)	13,051	53.5%	Billal Miah		INC	10,735	44.01%	2,316
20	Nalchar	82.98%	Sukumar Barman		CPI(M)	13,220	56.18%	Nani Gopal Das		INC	9,648	41.%	3,572
21	Sonamura	85.83%	Subal Rudra		CPI(M)	13,455	52.3%	Sudhir Ranjan Majumder		INC	11,704	45.49%	1,751
22	Dhanpur	84.23%	Manik Sarkar		CPI(M)	15,613	55.85%	Dipak Chakraborty		INC	11,111	39.74%	4,502
23	Ramchandraghat	76.59%	Padma Kumar Debbarma		CPI(M)	9,003	60.03%	Ananta Debbarma		INPT	5,569	37.13%	3,434
24	Khowai	85.7%	Samir Deb Sarkar		CPI(M)	13,511	55.78%	Arun Kumar Kar		INC	10,084	41.63%	3,427
25	Asharambari	76.07%	Sachindra Debbarma		CPI(M)	9,924	54.05%	Amiya Kumar Debbarma		INPT	8,438	45.95%	1,486
26	Pramodenagar	73.08%	Animesh Debbarma		INPT	10,607	48.52%	Aghore Debbarma		CPI(M)	10,220	46.75%	387
27	Kalyanpur	76.43%	Kajal Chandra Das		INC	10,290	50.64%	Manindra Chandra Das		CPI(M)	9,110	44.83%	1,180
28	Krishnapur	69.98%	Khagendra Jamatia		CPI(M)	9,922	50.09%	Sabda Kumar Jamatia		INPT	8,885	44.86%	1,037
29	Teliamura	78.%	Ashok Kumar Baidya		INC	12,579	51.7%	Jitendra Sarkar		CPI(M)	10,856	44.62%	1,723
30	Bagma	80.52%	Gunapada Jamatia		CPI(M)	12,588	50.15%	Rati Mohan Jamaitia		INPT	12,513	49.85%	75
31	Salgarh	84.27%	Gopal Chandra Das		RSP	15,756	58.3%	Mira Das		INC	10,643	39.38%	5,113
32	Radhakishorpur	83.96%	Joy Gobinda Deb Roy		RSP	12,932	50.21%	Pranjit Singha Roy		INC	12,048	46.78%	884
33	Matarbari	85.66%	Madhab Chandra Saha		CPI(M)	14,304	52.61%	Kashiram Reang		INC	12,333	45.36%	1,971
34	Kakraban	84.21%	Kashab Chandra Majumder		CPI(M)	15,736	62.8%	Rajib Samaddar		INC	8,573	34.21%	7,163
35	Rajnagar	87.02%	Sudhan Das		CPI(M)	19,462	61.93%	Bikash Chandra Das		INC	10,727	34.13%	8,735
36	Belonia	84.65%	Basudev Majumder		CPI(M)	15,419	59.13%	Babul Majumder		INC	9,469	36.31%	5,950
37	Santirbazar	80.38%	Manindra Reang		CPI	14,536	53.04%	Rana Kishore Reang		INPT	12,106	44.17%	2,430
38	Hrishyamukh	87.37%	Badal Chowdhury		CPI(M)	18,052	66.76%	Dilip Chowdhury		INC	7,987	29.54%	10,065
39	Jolaibari	81.21%	Jashabir Tripura		CPI(M)	11,324	59.52%	Mever Kumar Jamatia		INPT	6,820	35.85%	4,504
40	Manu	85.%	Jitendra Chaudhury		CPI(M)	17,358	55.31%	Chandan Tripura		INPT	13,253	42.23%	4,105
41	Sabroom	85.64%	Gour Kanti Goswami		CPI(M)	16,445	58.54%	Sankar Malla		INC	10,861	38.67%	5,584
42	Ampinagar	76.05%	Nagendra Jamatia		INPT	11,439	51.04%	Nakshatra Jamatia		CPI(M)	10,975	48.96%	464
43	Birganj	83.67%	Ranjit Debnath		CPI(M)	16,310	54.59%	Jawhar Shaha		INC	13,070	43.74%	3,240
44	Raima Valley	74.13%	Rabindra Debbarma		INPT	13,483	47.98%	Lalit Mohan Tripura		CPI(M)	13,334	47.45%	149
45	Kamalpur	83.38%	Bijoy Lakshmi Singha		CPI(M)	11,208	54.86%	Manoj Kanti Deb		INC	8,639	42.28%	2,569
46	Surma	80.21%	Sudhir Das		CPI(M)	12,865	55.74%	Harendra Chandra Das		INC	9,626	41.71%	3,239
47	Salema	80.71%	Prasanta Debbarma		CPI(M)	13,007	59.02%	Ajit Debbarma		INPT	8,285	37.59%	4,722
48	Kulai	71.53%	Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl		INPT	12,772	55.07%	Bijoy Kumar Debbarma		CPI(M)	8,792	37.91%	3,980
49	Chawamanu	65.97%	Shyama Charan Tripura		INPT	10,352	54.3%	Gajendra Tripura		CPI(M)	7,277	38.17%	3,075
50	Pabiachhara	72.47%	Bidhu Bhusan Malakar		CPI(M)	12,696	50.25%	Swapna Das		INC	10,729	42.46%	1,967
51	Fatikroy	78.96%	Bijoy Roy		CPI(M)	11,381	49.91%	Sujit Paul		INC	10,144	44.48%	1,237
52	Chandipur	82.56%	Tapan Chakraborty		CPI(M)	14,010	55.72%	Debasish Sen		INC	10,277	40.88%	3,733
53	Kailashahar	80.57%	Birajit Sinha		INC	14,751	52.5%	Inuch Mia Khadim		CPI(M)	12,750	45.38%	2,001
54	Kurti	81.37%	Faizur Rahaman		CPI(M)	12,495	50.41%	Abdul Matin Chowdhury		INC	11,484	46.33%	1,011
55	Kadamtala	77.89%	Jyotirmoy Nath		INC	9,847	42.46%	Subodh Nath		CPI(M)	9,795	42.24%	52
56	Dharmanagar	73.%	Amitabha Datta		CPI(M)	11,811	46.29%	Sima Pal Chowdhury		INC	11,345	44.47%	466
57	Jubarajnagar	80.33%	Ramendra Chandra Debnath		CPI(M)	11,967	49.61%	Biva Rani Nath		INC	11,363	47.1%	604
58	Pencharthal	71.49%	Arun Kumar Chakma		CPI(M)	12,863	48.51%	Nirupama Chakma		INC	10,790	40.69%	2,073
59	Panisagar	75.78%	Subodh Chandra Das		CPI(M)	10,931	48.57%	Bikash Sharma		INC	9,138	40.61%	1,793
60	Kanchanpur	64.25%	Rajendra Reang (Tripura politician)		CPI(M)	9,700	44.37%	Rajendra Reang		INPT	9,699	44.36%	1