# 1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

Tripura was recognized as a state in India on January 21, 1972. Before that, Tripura was a Union Territory. The first Legislative Assembly Election as a state was held on March 11, 1972. The 1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place in a single phase to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India.
Indian National Congress led by Sukhamoy Sen Gupta, won 41 seats and formed a Government in Tripura.

## Highlights

Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on March 11, 1972. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.

### Participating political parties

| # | Type | Abbreviation | Party |
| 1 | National Party | BJS | Bharatiya Jan Sangh |
| 2 | National Party | CPI | Communist Party of India |
| 3 | National Party | CPM | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 4 | National Party | INC | Indian National Congress |
| 5 | State Party | FBL | All India Forward Bloc |
| 6 | Registered (Unrecognised) Party | TUS | Tripura Upajati Zuba Samiti |
| 7 | Independents | IND | Independent |

### No. of constituencies

| Type of Constituencies | GEN | SC | ST | Total |
| No. of Constituencies | 36 | 5 | 19 | 60 |

### Electors

| | Men | Women | Total |
| No.of Electors | 406,712 | 359,381 | 766,093 |
| No.of Electors who Voted | 284,765 | 231,288 | 516,053 |
| Polling Percentage | 70.02% | 64.36% | 67.36% |

### Performance of women candidates

| | Men | Women | Total |
| No.of Contestants | 230 | 04 | 328 |
| Elected | 60 | 00 | 60 |

## Result

1967 Seats :
| Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 3 | 0 | 345 | 0.07% | 0 |
| Communist Party of India | 11 | 1 | 15,226 | 3.04% | 1 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 57 | 16 | 189,667 | 37.82% | 2 |
| Indian National Congress | 59 | 41 | 224,821 | 44.83% | 27 |
| All India Forward Bloc | 9 | 0 | 5,739 | 1.14% | - |
| Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 10 | 0 | 5,883 | 1.17% | - |
| Independents | 85 | 2 | 59,792 | 11.92% | 0 |
| Total | 234 | 60 | 501,473 | | |
| Source: ECI ||||||||||

### Results by constituency

Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituency :
| Assembly Constituency | Assembly Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Margin |
| #k | Names | % | Candidate | Party | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Party | Votes | % | Margin |
| 1 | Simna | 75.04% | Bhadramani Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 4,594 | 53.02% | S. B. Kishore Debbarman | | INC | 3,656 | 42.2% | 938 |
| 2 | Mohanpur | 66.05% | Radharaman Debnath | | CPI(M) | 4,277 | 51.58% | Pram D. Ranjan Dasgupta | | INC | 3,592 | 43.32% | 685 |
| 3 | Bamutia | 71.4% | Prafulla Kumar Das | | INC | 4,862 | 61.72% | Brajendra Biswas | | CPI(M) | 3,015 | 38.28% | 1,847 |
| 4 | Barjala | 67.67% | Basana Chakraborty | | INC | 3,733 | 55.67% | Gouri Bhattacharjee | | CPI(M) | 2,307 | 34.4% | 1,426 |
| 5 | Kunjaban | 65.46% | Ashok Kumar Bhattacharya | | INC | 7,033 | 52.38% | Kanu Ghosh | | CPI(M) | 5,633 | 41.95% | 1,400 |
| 6 | Pratapgarh | 62.8% | Madhusudan Das | | INC | 3,862 | 49.% | Jadab Chandra Majumder | | CPI(M) | 3,593 | 45.59% | 269 |
| 7 | Agartala Town III | 59.74% | Sukhamoy Sen Gupta | | INC | 4,415 | 49.44% | Supriyo Bhowmik | | CPI(M) | 2,963 | 33.18% | 1,452 |
| 8 | Ananda Nagar | 68.21% | Tarit Mohan Dasgupta | | INC | 4,341 | 45.07% | Khagen Das | | CPI(M) | 4,159 | 43.18% | 182 |
| 9 | Agartala Town I | 64.27% | Ajoy Biswas | | Independent | 3,810 | 50.28% | Renuka Chakraborty | | INC | 2,742 | 36.19% | 1,068 |
| 10 | Agartala Town II | 65.01% | Krishnadas Bhattacharjee | | INC | 3,009 | 48.01% | Ashoke Chakraborty | | CPI(M) | 2,322 | 37.05% | 687 |
| 11 | Old Agartala | 70.44% | Sailesh Chandra Some | | INC | 5,098 | 56.76% | Jagadish Chandra Dey | | CPI(M) | 2,217 | 24.69% | 2,881 |
| 12 | Majlishpur | 70.59% | Jatindra Kumar Majumder | | INC | 3,724 | 54.79% | Bhanu Gosh | | CPI(M) | 3,073 | 45.21% | 651 |
| 13 | Mandaibazar | 65.98% | Kalidas Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 4,717 | 66.28% | Bagala Prasad Debbarma | | INC | 1,664 | 23.38% | 3,053 |
| 14 | Uttar Debendranagar | 69.% | Sabhiram Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 4,208 | 56.51% | Rabindra K. Debbarma | | INC | 1,949 | 26.18% | 2,259 |
| 15 | Ishanchandranagar | 69.56% | Naresh Chandra Roy | | INC | 3,349 | 46.62% | Mati Lal Sarkar | | CPI(M) | 3,328 | 46.33% | 21 |
| 16 | Takarjala | 65.21% | Gunapada Jamatia | | CPI(M) | 3,461 | 41.37% | Mahendra Debbarma | | INC | 3,049 | 36.45% | 412 |
| 17 | Kamalasagar | 75.41% | Bichitra Mohan Saha | | INC | 3,936 | 52.56% | Nagendra Deb | | CPI(M) | 2,316 | 30.93% | 1,620 |
| 18 | Bishalgarh | 73.54% | Samir Ranjan Barman | | INC | 2,777 | 32.32% | Babul Sengupta | | CPI(M) | 2,638 | 30.7% | 139 |
| 19 | Charilam | 67.03% | Niranjan Deb | | CPI(M) | 2,805 | 36.78% | Monmohan Debbarma | | INC | 2,474 | 32.44% | 331 |
| 20 | Bishramganj | 69.65% | Sudhanwa Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 2,745 | 35.12% | Deuan Chandra Tripura | | INC | 2,479 | 31.72% | 266 |
| 21 | Boxanagar | 74.34% | Munsur Ali | | INC | 3,787 | 54.69% | Phani Bhushan Bhakta | | CPI(M) | 2,097 | 30.29% | 1,690 |
| 22 | Nalchar | 67.01% | Benode Behari Das | | INC | 4,078 | 48.77% | Hari Madhab Bhowmik | | CPI(M) | 3,199 | 38.26% | 879 |
| 23 | Sonamura | 65.74% | Debendra Kishore Chowdhury | | INC | 3,340 | 55.44% | Sultan Miah | | Independent | 1,504 | 24.97% | 1,836 |
| 24 | Dhanpur | 67.66% | Samar Chowdhury | | CPI(M) | 3,530 | 48.64% | Dhirendra Kumar Sengupta | | INC | 2,757 | 37.99% | 773 |
| 25 | Salgarh | 69.29% | Tapash Dey | | INC | 3,966 | 48.67% | Abani Mohan Bhowmik | | CPI(M) | 2,907 | 35.67% | 1,059 |
| 26 | Kakraban | 69.4% | Ajit Ranjan Ghosh | | INC | 3,387 | 43.19% | Kashab Chandra Majumder | | CPI(M) | 2,849 | 36.33% | 538 |
| 27 | Radhakishorpur | 72.7% | Usha Ranjan Sen | | INC | 4,888 | 48.37% | Sushil Mukerjee | | CPI(M) | 3,509 | 34.73% | 1,379 |
| 28 | Matarbari | 67.34% | Nishi Kanta Sarkar | | INC | 3,851 | 45.7% | Naresh Chandra Ghosh | | CPI(M) | 3,215 | 38.16% | 636 |
| 29 | Rajnagar | 63.83% | Lakshmi Nag | | INC | 3,265 | 34.63% | Badal Chowdhury | | CPI(M) | 2,908 | 30.85% | 357 |
| 30 | Belonia | 58.79% | Jitendra Lal Das | | CPI | 3,992 | 43.57% | Suresh Chandra Chowdhury | | INC | 3,627 | 39.59% | 365 |
| 31 | Hrishyamukh | 63.1% | Chandra Sekhar Dutta | | INC | 5,911 | 66.14% | Amalendu Chakraborty | | CPI(M) | 2,613 | 29.24% | 3,298 |
| 32 | Muhuripur | 58.6% | Achaichhi Mog | | INC | 4,394 | 55.93% | Brajmohan Jamatia | | CPI(M) | 2,583 | 32.88% | 1,811 |
| 33 | Manu | 67.92% | Hari Chanran Choudhrury | | INC | 4,764 | 54.25% | Thaingya Mog | | CPI(M) | 3,157 | 35.95% | 1,607 |
| 34 | Sabroom | 72.9% | Kalipada Banerji | | INC | 6,180 | 66.31% | Sunil Kumar Chowdhury | | CPI(M) | 3,140 | 33.69% | 3,040 |
| 35 | Chellagong | 59.33% | Baju Ban Riyan | | CPI(M) | 3,032 | 41.25% | Panji Ham Reang | | INC | 2,989 | 40.67% | 43 |
| 36 | Birganj | 66.57% | Sushil Ranjan Saha | | INC | 3,645 | 46.61% | Syamal Kantisaha | | CPI(M) | 3,142 | 40.17% | 503 |
| 37 | Dumburnagar | 53.6% | Pakhi Tripura | | CPI(M) | 3,272 | 60.15% | Rajprasad Chowdhury | | INC | 1,664 | 30.59% | 1,608 |
| 38 | Ampinagar | 59.63% | Bullu Kuki | | CPI(M) | 3,663 | 57.84% | Gopinath Jamatia | | Independent | 2,140 | 33.79% | 1,523 |
| 39 | Teliamura | 73.05% | Anil Sarkar | | CPI(M) | 5,458 | 51.19% | Bir Chandra Barman | | INC | 3,847 | 36.08% | 1,611 |
| 40 | Mohar Chhera | 72.83% | Ananta Hari Jamatia | | INC | 5,351 | 51.36% | Joy Mohan Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 3,691 | 35.43% | 1,660 |
| 41 | Kalyanpur | 84.55% | Bidya Chandra Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 10,273 | 77.36% | Krishna Kumar Debbarma | | INC | 3,006 | 22.64% | 7,267 |
| 42 | Pramodenagar | 79.25% | Manindra Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 7,439 | 61.25% | Nanda Kumar Debbarma | | INC | 4,707 | 38.75% | 2,732 |
| 43 | Khowai | 76.52% | J Prasanna Bhattacharjee | | INC | 5,069 | 56.35% | Kaminisingh | | CPI(M) | 3,162 | 35.15% | 1,907 |
| 44 | Asharambari | 82.01% | Nripen Chakraborty | | CPI(M) | 6,290 | 58.92% | Arun Kar | | INC | 4,137 | 38.75% | 2,153 |
| 45 | Kamalpur | 75.44% | Sunil Chandra Datta | | INC | 4,422 | 49.45% | Makhan Datta | | CPI(M) | 3,768 | 42.14% | 654 |
| 46 | Surma | 77.2% | Kshitish Chandra Das | | INC | 4,737 | 48.73% | Rudreswar Das | | CPI(M) | 4,202 | 43.23% | 535 |
| 47 | Kulaihower | 67.21% | Mongchabai Mog | | INC | 6,380 | 55.81% | Dinesh Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 4,662 | 40.78% | 1,718 |
| 48 | Chawamanu | 50.4% | Purna Mohan Tripura | | CPI(M) | 3,164 | 48.03% | Ghanshyam Dewan | | INC | 2,189 | 33.23% | 975 |
| 49 | Fatikroy | 67.29% | Radhika Ranjan Gupta | | INC | 4,019 | 38.55% | Tarani Mohan Singha | | CPI(M) | 2,966 | 28.45% | 1,053 |
| 50 | Pabiachhara | 60.46% | Gopi Nath Tripura | | INC | 3,973 | 50.09% | K. Mohan Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 3,279 | 41.34% | 694 |
| 51 | Chandipur | 77.71% | Manindralal Bhowmik | | INC | 3,418 | 48.94% | Baidyanath Majumdar | | CPI(M) | 3,138 | 44.93% | 280 |
| 52 | Kailashahar | 70.73% | Moulana Abdul Ratif | | INC | 4,299 | 55.43% | Bonode Dey | | Independent | 1,720 | 22.18% | 2,579 |
| 53 | Bilaspur | 70.01% | Subal Chandra Biswas | | INC | 4,228 | 56.82% | Barindra Malaker | | CPI(M) | 2,230 | 29.97% | 1,998 |
| 54 | Jubarajnagar | 65.03% | Monoranjan Nath | | INC | 3,777 | 51.37% | Ram Kumar Nath | | CPI(M) | 2,180 | 29.65% | 1,597 |
| 55 | Longai | 57.45% | Hangshadhwaz Dewan | | INC | 3,690 | 46.41% | Indu Madhav Chakma | | CPI(M) | 2,156 | 27.12% | 1,534 |
| 56 | Kanchanpur | 48.99% | Raimuni Reang Chowdhury | | INC | 3,126 | 46.66% | Len Prasad Reang | | CPI(M) | 2,138 | 31.92% | 988 |
| 57 | Deocherra | 62.76% | Abdul Wazid | | INC | 3,399 | 44.97% | Karunamoy Nath Chowdhury | | Independent | 1,870 | 24.74% | 1,529 |
| 58 | Dharmanagar | 66.35% | Amarendra Sarma | | Independent | 3,728 | 47.21% | Debiprasad Purkayastha | | INC | 3,489 | 44.19% | 239 |
| 59 | Kadamtala | 61.99% | Benoy Bhushan Banerjee | | INC | 2,684 | 40.74% | Abdul Rup | | Independent | 1,717 | 26.06% | 967 |
| 60 | Sonichera | 61.18% | Radha Raman Nath | | INC | 2,637 | 33.61% | Abdul Matin Chowdhury | | Independent | 1,551 | 19.77% | 1,086 |

## Government formation

Indian National Congress (INC) won 41 out of 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The CPI-M won 18 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Sukhamoy Sen Gupta of the INC formed a government as Chief Minister on March 20, 1972.
Prafulla Kumar Das formed a government as Chief Minister on April 1, 1977.
Radhika Ranjan Gupta formed a coalition government with the Janata Party (JP) and the Left Front (LF) on July 26, 1977. Chief Minister Radhika Ranjan Gupta resigned, and the state of Tripura was placed under presidential rule from November 5, 1977 to January 5, 1978.