| Election Name: | 1977 Tripura Legislative Assembly election |
| Country: | India |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election |
| Previous Year: | 1972 |
| Next Election: | 1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
| Seats For Election: | 60 seats in the Assembly |
| Election Date: | 31 December 1977 |
| Leader1: | Nripen Chakraborty |
| Party1: | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| Leaders Seat1: | Pramodenagar |
| Last Election1: | 16 |
| Seats1: | 51 |
| Seat Change1: | 35 |
| Popular Vote1: | 352,652 |
| Percentage1: | 47.00% |
| Map Size: | 200px |
| Chief Minister | |
| Before Election: | President's rule |
| After Election: | Nripen Chakraborty |
| After Party: | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| Majority Seats: | 31 |
| 1Blank: | Alliance seats |
| 1Data1: | 56 |
The 1977 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place in a single phase on 31 December 1977 to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India.[1]
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), led Left front won the election by 56 seats and formed a Government in Tripura.
Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on December 31, 1977. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.
| Partytype Abbreviation | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| National Parties | |||
| 1 | CPI | Communist Party of India | |
| 2 | CPM | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 3 | INC | Indian National Congress | |
| 4 | JNP | Janata Party | |
| State Parties | |||
| 5 | FBL | All India Forward Bloc | |
| 6 | RSP | Revolutionary Socialist Party | |
| Registered (Unrecognised) Parties | |||
| 7 | PBI | Proutist Bloc of India | |
| 8 | TCD | Congress for Democracy | |
| 9 | TUS | Tripura Upajati Zuba Samiti | |
| Independents | |||
| 10 | IND | IndependentS | |
| Men | Women | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No.of Electors | 495,342 | 466,656 | 961,998 | |
| No.of Electors who Voted | 406,052 | 358,878 | 764,930 | |
| Polling Percentage | 81.97% | 76.90% | 79.51% |
| Men | Women | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No.of Contestants | 322 | 06 | 328 | |
| Elected | 59 | 01 | 60 |
| Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won | No. of Votes | % of Votes | 1972 Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communist Party of India | 10 | 0 | 6,266 | 0.84% | 1 | ||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 55 | 51 | 352,652 | 47.00% | 16 | ||||
| Indian National Congress | 60 | 0 | 133,240 | 17.76% | 41 | ||||
| Janata Party | 59 | 0 | 78,479 | 10.46% | - | ||||
| All India Forward Bloc | 1 | 1 | 7,800 | 1.04% | 0 | ||||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 2 | 2 | 12,446 | 1.66% | - | ||||
| Proutist Bloc of India | 6 | 0 | 2,139 | 0.29% | - | ||||
| Congress for Democracy | 59 | 0 | 66,913 | 9.08% | - | ||||
| Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 28 | 4 | 59,474 | 7.93% | 0 | ||||
| Independents | 48 | 2 | 30,862 | 4.11% | 2 | ||||
| Total | 328 | 60 | 750,271 | ||||||
| Source: ECI[6] | |||||||||
| Winner | Runner Up | Margin | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Names | % | Candidate | Party | data-sort-type=number | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | data-sort-type=number | Votes | % | ||
| 1 | Simna | 83.98% | Abhiram Debbarma | 6,800 | 54.13% | Maharajkumar Sahadev Bikram Kishore Dev Barman | 2,739 | 21.8% | 4,061 | |||||
| 2 | Mohanpur | 81.74% | Radharaman Debnath | 4,599 | 36.51% | Ambika Deb | 2,797 | 22.21% | 1,802 | |||||
| 3 | Bamutia | 83.52% | Haricharan Sarkar | 6,195 | 49.7% | Parfulla Kumar Das | 5,276 | 42.33% | 919 | |||||
| 4 | Barjala | 82.1% | Gouri Bhattacharjee | 8,178 | 58.79% | Reserwar Datta | 3,317 | 23.84% | 4,861 | |||||
| 5 | Khayerpur | 78.93% | Akhil Debnath | 5,833 | 45.4% | Amar Ranjan Gupta | 2,168 | 16.87% | 3,665 | |||||
| 6 | Agartala | 78.14% | Ajoy Biswas | 10,682 | 68.2% | Kamal Kumar Singha | 2,021 | 12.9% | 8,661 | |||||
| 7 | Ramnagar | 78.72% | Biren Datta | 8,420 | 63.41% | Apanshu Mohan Lodh | 2,553 | 19.23% | 5,867 | |||||
| 8 | Town Bordowali | 77.93% | Brajagopal Roy | 7,800 | 62.76% | Dwijen Dey | 2,034 | 16.37% | 5,766 | |||||
| 9 | Banamalipur | 79.01% | Bibekananda Bhowmik | 6,734 | 64.43% | Priya Lal Paul | 1,745 | 16.7% | 4,989 | |||||
| 10 | Majlishpur | 84.67% | Khagen Das | 4,437 | 37.07% | Jatindra Kumar Majumdar | 2,425 | 20.26% | 2,012 | |||||
| 11 | Mandaibazar | 78.24% | Rashiram Debbarma | 6,915 | 50.72% | Kshirode Debbarma | 3,606 | 26.45% | 3,309 | |||||
| 12 | Takarjala | 76.36% | Sudhanwa Debbarma | 5,358 | 41.5% | Biswa Kumar Debbarma | 4,075 | 31.56% | 1,283 | |||||
| 13 | Pratapgarh | 82.27% | Anil Sarkar | 10,869 | 66.44% | Madhusudan Das | 3,397 | 20.76% | 7,472 | |||||
| 14 | Badharghat | 80.06% | Jadab Majumder | 10,816 | 74.83% | Sachindra Lal Singha | 1,844 | 12.76% | 8,972 | |||||
| 15 | Kamalasagar | 79.99% | Matilal Sarkar | 7,041 | 58.12% | Manoranjan Laskar | 2,451 | 20.23% | 4,590 | |||||
| 16 | Bishalgarh | 81.89% | Gautam Prasad Dutta | 5,384 | 45.47% | Samir Ranjan Barman | 3,546 | 29.95% | 1,838 | |||||
| 17 | Golaghati | 80.92% | Niranjan Debbarma | 4,254 | 31.85% | Budha Debbarma | 3,171 | 23.74% | 1,083 | |||||
| 18 | Charilam | 79.78% | Harinath Debbarma | 4,259 | 33.2% | Durga Prasad Sikdar | 3,231 | 25.18% | 1,028 | |||||
| 19 | Boxanagar | 84.81% | Arabar Rahaman | 5,255 | 47.1% | Munsur Ali | 4,114 | 36.88% | 1,141 | |||||
| 20 | Nalchar | 83.37% | Sumanta Kumar Das | 6,433 | 52.69% | Bir Chandra Barman | 2,945 | 24.12% | 3,488 | |||||
| 21 | Sonamura | 84.% | Subal Rudra | 6,469 | 53.88% | Debendra Kishore Chowdhury | 4,389 | 36.55% | 2,080 | |||||
| 22 | Dhanpur | 83.08% | Samar Chowdhury | 6,244 | 48.79% | Brojendra Ghosh | 3,100 | 24.22% | 3,144 | |||||
| 23 | Ramchandraghat | 89.22% | Dasarath Deb | 9,585 | 81.57% | Nand Kumar Debbarma | 1,166 | 9.92% | 8,419 | |||||
| 24 | Khowai | 84.66% | Swaraijam Kamini Thakur Singha | 5,715 | 51.25% | Arun Kar | 3,215 | 28.83% | 2,500 | |||||
| 25 | Asharambari | 82.94% | Bidya Chandra Debbarma | 9,506 | 77.7% | Dayanand Debbarma | 1,125 | 9.19% | 8,381 | |||||
| 26 | Pramodenagar | 82.3% | Nirpen Chakraborty | 8,786 | 57.53% | Upendra Chandra Debnath | 2,565 | 16.79% | 6,221 | |||||
| 27 | Kalyanpur | 83.94% | Makhan Lal Chakraborty | 5,211 | 41.27% | Ashoke Kumar Bhattacharya | 2,842 | 22.51% | 2,369 | |||||
| 28 | Krishnapur | 67.32% | Manindra Debbarma | 6,116 | 57.3% | Maharajkumar Nakshatra Bikram | 1,703 | 15.95% | 4,413 | |||||
| 29 | Teliamura | 78.97% | Jitendra Sarkar | 5,769 | 42.31% | Ratan Chakraborty | 3,387 | 24.84% | 2,382 | |||||
| 30 | Bagma | 79.66% | Rati Mohan Jamaitia | 5,652 | 45.26% | Ganapada Jamatia | 5,194 | 41.59% | 458 | |||||
| 31 | Salgarh | 82.49% | Gopal Chandra Das | 6,968 | 60.32% | Jitendra Chandra Das | 1,620 | 14.02% | 5,348 | |||||
| 32 | Radhakishorpur | 80.8% | Jogesh Chakraborty | 5,478 | 54.62% | Usha Ranjan Sen | 1,755 | 17.5% | 3,723 | |||||
| 33 | Matarbari | 82.2% | Naresh Chandra Ghosh | 6,372 | 50.91% | Anil Sarkar | 2,418 | 19.32% | 3,954 | |||||
| 34 | Kakraban | 82.71% | Kashab Chandra Majumder | 6,781 | 53.7% | Ajit Ranjan Ghosh | 3,006 | 23.8% | 3,775 | |||||
| 35 | Rajnagar | 78.8% | Nakul Das | 7,828 | 55.49% | Upendra Kumar Das | 5,100 | 36.15% | 2,728 | |||||
| 36 | Belonia | 81.72% | Jyotirmoy Das | 5,460 | 41.65% | Manoranjan Majumder | 5,341 | 40.74% | 119 | |||||
| 37 | Santirbazar | 78.29% | Drao Kumar Reang | 4,397 | 30.08% | Subodh Chandra Nath | 3,902 | 26.69% | 495 | |||||
| 38 | Hrishyamukh | 83.22% | Badal Chowdhury | 7,552 | 56.01% | Arun Chandra Bhowmik | 5,209 | 38.63% | 2,343 | |||||
| 39 | Jolaibari | 76.69% | Brajamohan Jamatia | 3,603 | 36.57% | Kashi Ram Reang | 3,071 | 31.17% | 532 | |||||
| 40 | Manu | 78.9% | Matahari Chowdhury | 6,292 | 42.65% | Angju Mog | 5,098 | 34.56% | 1,194 | |||||
| 41 | Sabroom | 83.94% | Sunil Kumar Chowdhury | 6,537 | 46.94% | Rabindra Kumar Patari | 3,712 | 26.66% | 2,825 | |||||
| 42 | Ampinagar | 73.6% | Nagendra Jamatia | 5,744 | 45.17% | Madhu Sudan Kalai | 4,814 | 37.86% | 930 | |||||
| 43 | Birganj | 77.9% | Syamal Saha | 5,745 | 39.5% | Kanai Lal Sarkar | 4,212 | 28.96% | 1,533 | |||||
| 44 | Raima Valley | 67.65% | Baju Ban Riyan | 7,661 | 72.65% | Monojay Roaja | 1,588 | 15.06% | 6,073 | |||||
| 45 | Kamalpur | 84.04% | Bimal Singha | 7,634 | 70.06% | Brajakishore Singha | 1,156 | 10.61% | 6,478 | |||||
| 46 | Surma | 83.58% | Rudrewar Das | 7,403 | 57.83% | Jogendra Das | 2,096 | 16.37% | 5,307 | |||||
| 47 | Salema | 81.29% | Dinesh Debbarma | 6,890 | 53.24% | Madan Mohan Debbarma | 3,302 | 25.52% | 3,588 | |||||
| 48 | Kulai | 76.7% | Kamini Debbarma | 6,050 | 46.34% | Prafulla Roaja | 2,664 | 20.41% | 3,386 | |||||
| 49 | Chawamanu | 68.48% | Purna Mohan Tripura | 4,613 | 49.9% | Shyama Charan Tripura | 1,587 | 17.17% | 3,026 | |||||
| 50 | Pabiachhara | 75.96% | Bidhu Bhusan Malakar | 6,270 | 53.84% | Brajendra Das | 2,778 | 23.85% | 3,492 | |||||
| 51 | Fatikroy | 82.67% | Tarani Mohan Singha | 6,057 | 44.21% | Gopesh Ranjan Deb | 3,365 | 24.56% | 2,692 | |||||
| 52 | Chandipur | 82.56% | Baidyanath Majumdar | 9,197 | 64.38% | Manindralal Bhowmik | 3,260 | 22.82% | 5,937 | |||||
| 53 | Kailashahar | 78.54% | Tapan Chakraborty | 7,111 | 53.36% | Abdul Shahid | 3,954 | 29.67% | 3,157 | |||||
| 54 | Kurti | 76.51% | Faizur Rahaman | 5,500 | 48.28% | Gopendra Kumar Das | 1,233 | 10.82% | 4,267 | |||||
| 55 | Kadamtala | 73.02% | Umesh Chandra Nath | 5,575 | 56.06% | Luthfur Rahaman Chowdhury | 1,731 | 17.41% | 3,844 | |||||
| 56 | Dharmanagar | 79.12% | Amarendra Sarma | 6,640 | 53.94% | Debiprasad Purkayastha | 2,963 | 24.07% | 3,677 | |||||
| 57 | Jubarajnagar | 80.62% | Ram Kumar Nath | 6,379 | 56.21% | Manoranjan Nath | 2,255 | 19.87% | 4,124 | |||||
| 58 | Pencharthal | 70.29% | Mohan Lal Chakma | 4,977 | 42.47% | Sushil Kumar Chakma | 2,966 | 25.31% | 2,011 | |||||
| 59 | Panisagar | 75.21% | Subodh Chandra Das | 5,588 | 58.4% | Debendra Chandra Nath | 781 | 8.16% | 4,807 | |||||
| 60 | Kanchanpur | 65.06% | Mandida Reang | 5,608 | 55.81% | Sukadayal Jamatia | 2,012 | 20.02% | 3,596 | |||||
The Left Front won a majority of the 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The LF was an alliance of left-wing political parties, including the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M). Nripen Chakraborty of the CPI-M formed a government as Chief Minister on January 5, 1978.[7]