1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election explained

Election Name:	1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
Country:	India
Type:	parliamentary
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	Tripura Territorial Council
Previous Year:	1962
Next Election:	1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
Next Year:	1972
Seats For Election:	All 30 seats of the Legislative Assembly
Majority Seats:	16
Election Date:	21 Feb 1967
Party1:	Indian National Congress
Leader1:	Sachindra Lal Singh
Leaders Seat1:	Agartala Sadar II
Last Election1:	No data available
Seats1:	27
Seat Change1:	No data available
Popular Vote1:	251,345
Percentage1:	57.95%
Party2:	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Leader2:	-
Leaders Seat2:	-
Last Election2:	No data available
Seats2:	2
Seat Change2:	No data available
Popular Vote2:	93,739
Percentage2:	21.61%
CM
Before Election:	Sachindra Lal Singh
Before Party:	Indian National Congress
After Election:	Sachindra Lal Singh
After Party:	Indian National Congress

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

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

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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Electors

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

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Performance of Women Candidates

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

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Result


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

Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituency^[8]

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Assembly Constituency	Turnout	Winner					Runner Up					Margin
k	Names	%	Candidate	Party		data-sort-type=number	Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Margin	data-sort-type=number	Votes	%
1	Mohanpur	74.%	Pram D. Ranjan Dasgupta		8,666	55.27%	N. Chakravorty		6,882	43.89%	1,784
2	Agartala Sadar I	76.68%	B. B. Das		8,117	60.38%	M. K. Roy		3,468	25.8%	4,649
3	Agartala Sadar II	73.96%	S. Singh		11,445	64.42%	S. R. Chanda		5,837	32.85%	5,608
4	Agartala Sadar III	75.57%	T. M. D. Gupta		8,872	57.18%	S. S. Gupta		5,283	34.05%	3,589
5	Agartala Town	73.11%	K. Bhattacharjee		6,853	54.26%	A. Islam		4,250	33.65%	2,603
6	Old Agartala	81.04%	J. K. Majumder		8,672	54.6%	Sailesh Chandra Some		7,211	45.4%	1,461
7	Uttar Debendranagar	75.32%	A. D. Barma		10,559	72.09%	B. P. D. Barma		4,088	27.91%	6,471
8	Takarjala	67.79%	M. D. Barma		6,945	54.84%	B. D. Barma		5,720	45.16%	1,225
9	Bishalgarh	74.02%	U. L. Singh		8,072	55.59%	B. M. Saha		6,136	42.26%	1,936
10	Charilam	73.27%	A. Debbarma		7,230	50.68%	K. C. D. Barma		7,037	49.32%	193
11	Sonamura North	82.1%	Debendra Kishore Chowdhury		8,807	74.%	D. C. S. Gupta		2,439	20.49%	6,368
12	Sonamura South	83.28%	B. Ali		7,888	65.58%	B. R. Pal		4,140	34.42%	3,748
13	Salgarh	74.8%	E. A. Chowdhury		8,424	71.09%	N. C. Ghose		2,335	19.7%	6,089
14	Radhakishorpur	72.54%	N. K. Sarkar		10,878	67.87%	Sunil Krishna Das		3,117	19.45%	7,761
15	Belonia	77.29%	U. K. Roy		10,502	60.05%	Jitendra Lal Das		6,691	38.26%	3,811
16	Muhuripur	73.%	S. C. Chowdhury		11,584	76.29%	Hiura Aung Mog		2,875	18.93%	8,709
17	Sabroom	77.56%	A. Mag		11,638	69.93%	A. Mag		4,642	27.89%	6,996
18	Birganj	64.36%	B. B. Riyan		6,152	55.49%	R. K. D. Barma		4,348	39.22%	1,804
19	Dumburnagar	61.5%	R. C. D. Rankhal		5,221	56.72%	S. D. Barma		3,984	43.28%	1,237
20	Teliamura	73.53%	P. K. Das		11,558	64.6%	A. C. Sarker		5,435	30.38%	6,123
21	Kalyanpur	89.71%	Bidya Chandra Debbarma		14,330	62.57%	N. K. D. Barma		8,572	37.43%	5,758
22	Khowai	85.14%	S. C. Datta		10,964	61.06%	J. Bhattacharjee		6,650	37.03%	4,314
23	Kamalpur	79.11%	K. C. Das		10,141	63.07%	N. K. Namadas		5,939	36.93%	4,202
24	Kulaihower	58.9%	G. Dewan		8,406	57.05%	D. D. Barma		6,329	42.95%	2,077
25	Fatikroy	69.68%	Radhika Ranjan Gupta		7,750	55.9%	Rakhal Raj Kumar		5,757	41.52%	1,993
26	Kailashahar	81.63%	M. L. Bhowmik		8,190	51.09%	B. Majumder		7,841	48.91%	349
27	Dharmanagar South	74.81%	M. Nath		8,354	64.12%	R. K. Nath		4,674	35.88%	3,680
28	Kanchanpur	57.06%	R. P. Chowdhury		5,192	64.63%	Mandida Reang		2,485	30.93%	2,707
29	Dharmanagar North	73.85%	B. B. Banerjee		6,467	52.59%	D. Chakraborty		3,437	27.95%	3,030
30	Kadamtala	68.91%	A. Wazid		5,890	47.35%	S. D. Nath		5,856	47.08%	34

Government formation

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]

Notes and References

Web site: 43. India/Tripura (1949-present). uca.edu.
Web site: Official Website of State Election Commission, Government of Tripura, India. sec.tripura.gov.in.
Web site: List of Participating Political Parties.
Web site: Constituencies-Tripura.
Web site: Total No.of Electors.
Web site: Performance of Women candidates Vs Men candidates.
Web site: 1967 Tripura Election result.
Web site: Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Tripura . https://web.archive.org/web/20101006135955/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20Report%20Tripura%201967.pdf. 6 October 2010. pdf.