List of constituencies of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly
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The Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the state of Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India. Its seat is at Itanagar,[1] the capital of the state, and it sits for a term of five years unless it is dissolved early.[a][3]: 72 Arunachal Pradesh is India's third smallest state by population and the fourteenth largest by area.[4] The Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly has had 11 terms since its creation. After the latest election in 2022, the assembly is governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has 43 out of the 60 seats. The Janata Dal, the largest opposition party, has 6 seats.[5]
Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
|---|---|
| 11th Arunachal Pradesh Assembly | |
| Type | |
| Type | |
Term limits | 5 years |
| Seats | 60 |
| Elections | |
| First past the post | |
Last election | 2024 |
| Meeting place | |
| Vidhan Bhavan, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh | |
| Website | |
| https://arla.neva.gov.in/ | |
Constituency boundaries are periodically redrawn by the delimitation commission which tries to keep them as geographically compact areas, and with due consideration to existing boundaries of administrative units. The latest census is used to draw the boundaries and every assembly constituency has to be completely within a parliamentary constituency.[6]: 4, Sect. 8–9 Since 1987, the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly has had 60 single-seat constituencies, each of which directly elects a representative[3]: 71, Ch. III, Art. 170, Sect. 1 based on a first past the post election.[7]
Since the independence of India from the United Kingdom in 1947, the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) have been given reservation status, guaranteeing political representation, and the Constitution lays down the general principles of positive discrimination for SCs and STs.[8][3]: 137 According to the 2011 census of India the Scheduled Tribes constitute 68.8% of the population of the state, while there were no people of any Scheduled caste.[9]: 8 The Scheduled Tribes have been granted a reservation of 59 seats in the assembly, while the only remaining seat (Bordumsa-Diyun) is unreserved.[10]: 6
History
| Year | Act/Order | Explanation | Total seats |
ST-reserved seats | Election(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971[11] | The North-East Frontier Agency a region of Assam was converted into a separate union territory. | 30 | 2 | 1978, 1980, 1984 |
| 1987 | State of Arunachal Pradesh Act[12] | Arunachal Pradesh was converted from a union territory to a state. The number of seats in its assembly was increased to 60. | 60 | 59 | 1990, 1995, 1999, 2004 |
| 2008 | Delimitation Commission Order, 2008[10] | There were changes in the areas covered by constituencies. | 60 | 59 | 2009, 2014, 2019, 2024 |
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See also
Notes
- A Legislative Assembly can be dissolved early, under Article 174 of the Indian Constitution, in a few situations including a Hung Assembly and the inability of any alliance to form a majority.[2]