# 1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

Until 1972, Tripura was a Union Territory. 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.
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 |

### No. of Constituencies

| Type of Constituencies | GEN | SC | ST | Total |
| No. of Constituencies | 18 | 3 | 9 | 30 |

### Electors

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

### Performance of Women Candidates

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

## Result

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 ||||||||||

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