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.
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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), led by Manik Sarkar, won 38 seats and formed the government in Tripura
Contesting parties
254 candidates registered to contest the election.
| Party | Symbol | 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 | |||
Highlights
Election to all 60 constituencies of the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on February 26, 2003, in a single phase.
Participating Political Parties
| 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 |
No. of Constituencies
| Type of Constituencies | GEN | SC | ST | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Constituencies | 33 | 7 | 20 | 60 |
Electors
| 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% |
Performance of Women Candidates
| Men | Women | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No.of Contestants | 235 | 19 | 254 |
| Elected | 58 | 02 | 60 |
Results
| Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won | No. of Votes | % of Votes | 1998 Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 21 | 0 | 20,032 | 1.32% | 0 | ||||
| Communist Party of India | 2 | 1 | 23,443 | 1.54% | 1 | ||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 55 | 38 | 711,119 | 46.82% | 38 | ||||
| Indian National Congress | 42 | 13 | 498,749 | 32.84% | 13 | ||||
| Nationalist Congress Party | 12 | 0 | 4,553 | 0.30% | 0 | ||||
| All India Trinamool Congress | 18 | 0 | 6,493 | 0.43% | 0 | ||||
| Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra | 18 | 6 | 189,186 | 12.46% | 4 | ||||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 2 | 2 | 28,688 | 1.89% | 2 | ||||
| Independents | 52 | 0 | 12,788 | 0.84% | 2 | ||||
| Total | 254 | 60 | 1,518,789 | ||||||
| Source: ECI | |||||||||
Results by constituency
| Assembly Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | |||||||||
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| #k | Names | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |||
| 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 | ||
Government Formation
The 18 member Left Front ministry led by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, sworn in on 7 March 2003.
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