# 1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

The 1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place on 1 May 1983, to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly constituencies in Tripura, India.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), led by Nripen Chakraborty, won 37 seats and formed the Government in Tripura.

## Highlights

Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on February 15, 1993. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.

### 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 | ICS | Indian Congress (Socialist) |
| 5 | INC | Indian National Congress |
| 6 | JNP | Janata Party |
| State Parties |||
| 7 | FBL | All India Forward BlocK |
| 8 | RSP | Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| 9 | TUS | Tripura Upajati Zuba Samiti |
| Independents |||
| 10 | 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 | 579,123 | 555,134 | 1,134,257 |
| No.of Electors who Voted | 495,281 | 446,504 | 941,785 |
| Polling Percentage | 85.52% | 80.43% | 83.03% |

### Performance of Women Candidates

| | Men | Women | Total |
| No.of Contestants | 195 | 11 | 206 |
| Elected | 56 | 04 | 60 |

## Result

1977 Seats :
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 4 | 0 | 578 | 0.06% | - |
| Communist Party of India | 1 | 0 | 7,657 | 0.83% | 0 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 56 | 37 | 433,608 | 46.78% | 51 |
| Indian Congress Secular | 3 | 0 | 540 | 0.06% | - |
| Indian National Congress | 45 | 12 | 282,859 | 30.51% | 0 |
| Janata Party | 5 | 0 | 515 | 0.06% | 0 |
| All India Forward Block | 1 | 0 | 6,549 | 0.71% | 1 |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 2 | 2 | 15,218 | 1.64% | 2 |
| Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 14 | 6 | 97,039 | 10.47% | 4 |
| Independents | 75 | 3 | 82,443 | 8.89% | 2 |
| Total | 206 | 60 | 927,006 | | |
| 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 | 83.41% | Abhiram Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 9,206 | 65.23% | Kripa Rani Debbarma | | TUS | 4,828 | 34.21% | 4,378 |
| 2 | Mohanpur | 80.89% | Dhirendra Chandra Debnath | | INC | 6,568 | 45.07% | Radharaman Debnath | | CPI(M) | 5,953 | 40.85% | 615 |
| 3 | Bamutia | 85.47% | Haricharan Sarkar | | CPI(M) | 7,417 | 50.79% | Prafulla Kumar Das | | INC | 7,023 | 48.09% | 394 |
| 4 | Barjala | 83.66% | Gouri Bhattacharjee | | CPI(M) | 8,160 | 49.3% | Basana Chakraborty | | Independent | 4,904 | 29.63% | 3,256 |
| 5 | Khayerpur | 83.34% | Sudhir Ranjan Majumder | | INC | 8,539 | 52.98% | Akhil Debnath | | CPI(M) | 7,321 | 45.43% | 1,218 |
| 6 | Agartala | 80.44% | Manik Sarkar | | CPI(M) | 10,623 | 52.18% | Promode Ranjandas Gupta | | INC | 9,485 | 46.59% | 1,138 |
| 7 | Ramnagar | 80.24% | Biren Dutta | | CPI(M) | 8,026 | 50.8% | Amar Ranjan Gupta | | INC | 7,640 | 48.35% | 386 |
| 8 | Town Bordowali | 79.31% | Ashok Kumar Bhattacharya | | INC | 7,689 | 52.95% | Brajagopal Roy | | AIFB | 6,549 | 45.1% | 1,140 |
| 9 | Banamalipur | 82.11% | Sukhamoy Sen Gupta | | INC | 6,883 | 52.43% | Bibekananda Bhowmik | | CPI(M) | 5,913 | 45.04% | 970 |
| 10 | Majlishpur | 83.16% | Khagen Das | | CPI(M) | 6,397 | 44.21% | Ranjit Saha | | INC | 4,901 | 33.87% | 1,496 |
| 11 | Mandaibazar | 81.% | Rashiram Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 9,861 | 56.04% | Amiya Kumar Debbarma | | TUS | 7,594 | 43.16% | 2,267 |
| 12 | Takarjala | 79.35% | Sudhanwa Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 9,029 | 59.83% | Suriya Kumar Debbarma | | TUS | 5,930 | 39.29% | 3,099 |
| 13 | Pratapgarh | 85.63% | Anil Sarkar | | CPI(M) | 12,736 | 58.4% | Monomohan Das | | INC | 8,758 | 40.16% | 3,978 |
| 14 | Badharghat | 82.65% | Jadab Majumder | | CPI(M) | 11,244 | 56.37% | Niranjan Paul | | INC | 8,551 | 42.87% | 2,693 |
| 15 | Kamalasagar | 84.88% | Matilal Sarkar | | CPI(M) | 7,601 | 50.85% | Monoranjan Laskar | | INC | 7,170 | 47.97% | 431 |
| 16 | Bishalgarh | 84.65% | Bhanu Lal Saha | | CPI(M) | 7,340 | 51.54% | Samir Ranjan Barman | | INC | 6,900 | 48.46% | 440 |
| 17 | Golaghati | 81.76% | Budha Debbarma | | TUS | 8,011 | 50.18% | Niranjan Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 7,198 | 45.09% | 813 |
| 18 | Charilam | 83.44% | Parimal Chandra Saha | | INC | 8,528 | 52.7% | Braja Gopal Bhowmik | | CPI(M) | 7,302 | 45.12% | 1,226 |
| 19 | Boxanagar | 88.79% | Araber Rahaman | | CPI(M) | 7,022 | 51.21% | Munsur Ali | | INC | 6,648 | 48.49% | 374 |
| 20 | Nalchar | 89.03% | Narayan Das | | INC | 7,420 | 49.94% | Sumanta Kumar Das | | CPI(M) | 7,210 | 48.53% | 210 |
| 21 | Sonamura | 87.97% | Rashik Lal Roy | | INC | 7,264 | 51.55% | Subal Rudra | | CPI(M) | 6,623 | 47.% | 641 |
| 22 | Dhanpur | 89.26% | Samar Chowdhury | | CPI(M) | 8,795 | 54.02% | Brajendra Kumar Ghosh | | INC | 7,487 | 45.98% | 1,308 |
| 23 | Ramchandraghat | 87.55% | Dasarath Deb | | CPI(M) | 11,451 | 86.89% | Bathsailyamani Jamatia | | TUS | 1,728 | 13.11% | 9,723 |
| 24 | Khowai | 88.15% | Samir Deb Sarkar | | CPI(M) | 5,777 | 45.18% | Sukhamoy Kar | | INC | 3,587 | 28.05% | 2,190 |
| 25 | Asharambari | 85.91% | Bidya Chandra Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 11,360 | 79.67% | Kishalaya Kanti Debbarma | | INC | 1,591 | 11.16% | 9,769 |
| 26 | Pramodenagar | 87.6% | Nripen Chakraborty | | CPI(M) | 10,845 | 60.87% | Siromani Roy | | Independent | 5,212 | 29.25% | 5,633 |
| 27 | Kalyanpur | 84.93% | Makhan Lal Chakraborty | | CPI(M) | 7,064 | 49.% | Debabrata Datta | | Independent | 4,566 | 31.67% | 2,498 |
| 28 | Krishnapur | 71.86% | Kali Kumar Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 7,267 | 54.29% | Maharaja Kumar Sahadeb Bikaram Kishore Debbarma | | INC | 5,059 | 37.8% | 2,208 |
| 29 | Teliamura | 83.15% | Gita Chowdhury | | INC | 6,835 | 42.48% | Jitendra Sarkar | | CPI(M) | 5,984 | 37.19% | 851 |
| 30 | Bagma | 81.6% | Rati Mohan Jamaitia | | TUS | 10,157 | 62.93% | Gunapada Jamatia | | CPI(M) | 5,506 | 34.11% | 4,651 |
| 31 | Salgarh | 87.11% | Gopal Chandra Das | | RSP | 8,148 | 53.21% | Kamini Kumar Das | | INC | 7,032 | 45.92% | 1,116 |
| 32 | Radhakishorpur | 84.17% | Jogesh Chakraborty | | RSP | 7,070 | 51.44% | Bhanu Gopal Baisnab | | INC | 6,590 | 47.95% | 480 |
| 33 | Matarbari | 86.26% | Maharani Bibhu Kumari Devi | | INC | 9,195 | 57.41% | Madhab Saha | | CPI(M) | 6,625 | 41.36% | 2,570 |
| 34 | Kakraban | 87.28% | Keshab Chandra Majumder | | CPI(M) | 8,256 | 52.% | Nanik Chandra Das | | INC | 7,521 | 47.37% | 735 |
| 35 | Rajnagar | 87.29% | Nakul Das | | CPI(M) | 10,144 | 54.83% | Bhuban Mohan Das | | INC | 7,951 | 42.98% | 2,193 |
| 36 | Belonia | 87.18% | Manoranjan Majumder | | Independent | 8,081 | 50.75% | Jitendra Lal Das | | CPI | 7,657 | 48.08% | 424 |
| 37 | Santirbazar | 83.85% | Shyama Charan Tripura | | TUS | 10,478 | 55.63% | Narayan Chandra Kar | | CPI(M) | 7,759 | 41.19% | 2,719 |
| 38 | Hrishyamukh | 90.43% | Badal Chowdhury | | CPI(M) | 9,204 | 53.87% | Amal Mallik | | INC | 7,703 | 45.08% | 1,501 |
| 39 | Jolaibari | 83.61% | Kashi Ram Reang | | INC | 6,718 | 51.9% | Brajamohan Jamatia | | CPI(M) | 6,227 | 48.1% | 491 |
| 40 | Manu | 83.5% | Angju Mog | | INC | 10,304 | 55.2% | Jitendra Kumar Chowdhury | | CPI(M) | 8,362 | 44.8% | 1,942 |
| 41 | Sabroom | 87.5% | Sunil Kumar Chowdhury | | CPI(M) | 9,118 | 52.55% | Adhir Chandra Bhaumik | | INC | 7,981 | 46.% | 1,137 |
| 42 | Ampinagar | 75.29% | Nagendra Jamatia | | TUS | 9,449 | 58.99% | Madhu Sudan Kalai | | CPI(M) | 4,941 | 30.84% | 4,508 |
| 43 | Birganj | 79.77% | Jawhar Saha | | Independent | 8,747 | 48.54% | Syjmal Kanti Saha | | CPI(M) | 6,352 | 35.25% | 2,395 |
| 44 | Raima Valley | 71.66% | Rabindra Debbarma | | TUS | 7,772 | 51.82% | Anand Mohan Reaja | | CPI(M) | 7,225 | 48.18% | 547 |
| 45 | Kamalpur | 89.17% | Bimal Singha | | CPI(M) | 7,674 | 59.48% | Kanak Ranjan Ghosh | | INC | 5,161 | 40.% | 2,513 |
| 46 | Surma | 86.82% | Rudreswar Das | | CPI(M) | 7,763 | 51.45% | Harendra Chandra Das | | INC | 6,215 | 41.19% | 1,548 |
| 47 | Salema | 84.5% | Dinesh Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 8,032 | 51.65% | Bijoy Kumar Jamatia | | TUS | 6,761 | 43.48% | 1,271 |
| 48 | Kulai | 78.96% | Diba Chandra Harangkhal | | TUS | 8,419 | 50.78% | Kamini Debbarma | | CPI(M) | 7,480 | 45.12% | 939 |
| 49 | Chawamanu | 75.94% | Purna Mohan Tripura | | CPI(M) | 6,662 | 50.24% | Jadumohan Tripura | | TUS | 6,598 | 49.76% | 64 |
| 50 | Pabiachhara | 81.19% | Bidhu Bhusan Malakar | | CPI(M) | 7,544 | 50.6% | Subal Chandra Biswas | | INC | 6,413 | 43.02% | 1,131 |
| 51 | Fatikroy | 86.31% | Tarani Mohan Singha | | CPI(M) | 7,580 | 51.65% | Radhika Ranjan Gupta | | INC | 5,898 | 40.19% | 1,682 |
| 52 | Chandipur | 88.38% | Baidyanath Majumdar | | CPI(M) | 9,066 | 54.64% | Birajit Sinha | | INC | 7,398 | 44.59% | 1,668 |
| 53 | Kailashahar | 83.9% | Syed Basit Ali | | INC | 8,116 | 50.82% | Tapan Chakraborty | | CPI(M) | 7,487 | 46.88% | 629 |
| 54 | Kurti | 79.5% | Faizur Rahaman | | CPI(M) | 7,738 | 57.78% | Abdul Razak Bisharad | | INC | 4,794 | 35.79% | 2,944 |
| 55 | Kadamtala | 76.63% | Samir Kumar Nath | | CPI(M) | 5,061 | 40.81% | Jyotirmoy Nath | | INC | 4,727 | 38.11% | 334 |
| 56 | Dharmanagar | 79.09% | Amarendra Sarma | | CPI(M) | 7,309 | 51.59% | Binay Bhushan Ray | | INC | 5,570 | 39.31% | 1,739 |
| 57 | Jubarajnagar | 84.5% | Ram Kumar Nath | | CPI(M) | 6,074 | 45.23% | Prasanna Kumar Nath | | Independent | 4,225 | 31.46% | 1,849 |
| 58 | Pencharthal | 77.93% | Ratna Prava Das | | Independent | 5,343 | 34.84% | Mohan Lal Chakma | | CPI(M) | 5,000 | 32.6% | 343 |
| 59 | Panisagar | 79.32% | Subodh Chandra Das | | CPI(M) | 6,642 | 53.45% | Bibekananda Chakraborty | | Independent | 3,047 | 24.52% | 3,595 |
| 60 | Kanchanpur | 72.88% | Len Prasad Malsai | | CPI(M) | 6,052 | 43.21% | Drao Kumar Reang | | TUS | 4,321 | 30.85% | 1,731 |

## Government Formation

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) won 37 out of 60 seats in the 60-seat Legislative Assembly. The Indian National Congress (INC) won 12 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Nripen Chakraborty of the CPI-M formed a government as Chief Minister.