The 2013 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place in a single phase on 14 February to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India.

Contesting parties 249 candidates registered to contest the election.

PartySymbolAllianceSeats contested Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) Left Front 55 Communist Party of India (CPI) Left Front 2 Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) Left Front2 All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) Left Front1 Indian National Congress (INC) UPA48Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)NDA50Independents (IND)23Amra Bangali 16Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT)17Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT) 12Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation 10Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)6 Samajwadi Party 4Nationalist Congress Party2Janata Dal (United) 1Total249

Highlights The Tripura Legislative Assembly election was held in a single phase, on 14 February 2013, for all the 60 assembly constituencies.

Participating Political Parties

Num Partytype Abbreviation Party National Parties 1 BJP Bharatiya Janata 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 - Other States 6 AIFB All India Forward Bloc 7 JD(U) Janata Dal (United) 8 RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party 9 SP Samajwadi Party Registered (Unrecognised) Parties 10 AMB Amra Bangalee 11 CPI(ML)(L) Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) 12 INPT Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra 13 IPFT Indigenous People's Front of Tripura 14 SUCI Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) Independents 15 IND Independent

No. of Constituencies

Type of Constituencies GEN SC ST Total No. of Constituencies 30 10 20 60

Electors

Men Women Total No.of Electors 1,201,209 1,157,284 2,358,493 No.of Electors who Voted 1,089,860 1,075,622 2,165,482 Polling Percentage 90.73% 92.94% 91.82%

Performance of Women Candidates Men Women Total No.of Contestants 234 15 249 Elected 55 05 60

Background The previous elections to the 10th Tripura Legislative Assembly was held in 2008. As of 2009, of the 60 ACs in Tripura, 20 are reserved for Scheduled Tribes and 10 are reserved for Scheduled Castes. February 2013 Elections in all polling stations were held using Electronic voting machines.

The Left Front, led by Communist Party of India (Marxist), and headed by Manik Sarkar, had formed the Government in the 10th Tripura Assembly after being re-elected in 2008. The Left Front had won 46 of the 60 seats in 2008 election.

Campaign The 2013 elections saw the Left Front trying to retain power for a fifth consecutive term. A total of 249 candidates from different political parties contested this election.

Election Day Election Day (14 February 2013) was overall peaceful and passed without any major incident of violence in this state that has traditionally faced insurgency from militant outfits.

According to the report by Times of India, the chief election officer of the state told that the voter turnout across the state was 93.57%, which set the record for the country's highest-ever voter turnout. This beats the previous record at 91.22 which was also set by Tripura in its 2008 assembly election. Women voters outnumbered men voters by 2.13 percent. There was 3,041 polling stations, and 18,000 poll officials were on duty.

Results

Results by alliance and party

!colspan=10| |- ! style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2" colspan="2"| Parties and coalitions ! colspan="3"| Popular vote ! colspan="2"| Seats

! width="70"| Votes ! width="45"| % ! width="45"| ±pp ! width="30"| Won ! width="30"| +/− |- style="text-align:right" | bgcolor=""| | align="left"| Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) | 1,059,327 || 48.11 || 0.10 | 49 || 3 |- style="text-align:right" | bgcolor=""| | align="left"| Communist Party of India (CPI) | 34,500 || 1.57 || 0.09 | 1 || |- style="text-align:right" | bgcolor=""| | align="left"| Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) | 31,717 || 1.95 || 0.26 | 0 || 2 |- style="text-align:right" | bgcolor=""| | align="left"| All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) | 15,414 || 0.70 || | 0 ||

|- style="text-align:right" | colspan="2"style="background:#FFB8B8" | Total | style="background:#FFB8B8;" | 1,140,958 | style="background:#FFB8B8;" | 52.33 | style="background:#FFB8B8;" | 0.99 | style="background:#FFB8B8;" | 50 | style="background:#FFB8B8;" | 1

|- style="text-align:right" | width="1" bgcolor=""| | align="left"| Indian National Congress (INC) | 804,457 || 36.53 || 0.15 | 10 ||

|- style="text-align:right" | bgcolor=""| | align="left"| Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT) | 167,078 || 7.59 || 1.38 | 0 || 1

|- style="text-align:right" | bgcolor=""| | align="left"| Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 33,808 || 1.54 || 0.05 | 0 ||

|- style="text-align:right" | bgcolor=""| | align="left"| Independents (IND) | 21,126 || 0.96 || 2.28 | 0 || |- style="text-align:right" | bgcolor="black"| | align="left"| Others | 50,052 || 1.75 || 0.25 | 0 || |- | colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| |- style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold;" | align="left" colspan="2"| Total | 2,202,065 || 100.00 || bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| | 60 || ±0

Results by constituency Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituencyAssembly ConstituencyTurnout WinnerRunner UpMargin #k Names Candidate Party Votes Candidate Party Votes1Simna93.65Pranab Debbarma17,06354.36Rabindra Debbarma13,24442.193,8192Mohanpur94.8Ratan Lal Nath19,14349.12Subhas Chandra Debnath18,36847.137753Bamutia95.61Haricharan Sarkar19,74452.35Prakash Chandra Das16,99445.062,7504Barjala94.64Jitendra Sarkar17,72849.25Jitendra Das17,46748.522615Khayerpur95.37Pabitra Kar20,97250.72Baptu Chakraborty19,67547.591,2976Agartala92.14Sudip Roy Barman22,16052.29Sankar Prasad Datta19,39845.772,7627Ramnagar89.85Ratan Das18,06049.19Surajit Datta17,99549.02658Town Bordowali86.86Ashish Kumar Saha22,47457.45Shyamal Roy15,41439.417,0609Banamalipur86.78Gopal Chandra Roy19,46457.28Yudhisthir Das13,70240.325,76210Majlishpur96.36Manik Dey21,30452.43Bibekananda Chowdhury18,37545.222,92911Mandaibazar93.06Manoranjan Debbarma19,27550.35Jagadish Debbarma17,45045.581,82512Takarjala91.91Niranjan Debbarma17,31549.87Rajeshwar Debbarma16,10846.41,20713Pratapgarh22.82Anil Sarkar23,97751.38Ranjit Kumar Das21,84546.812,13214Badharghat93.7Dilip Sarkar24,30949.29Samar Das23,66647.9864315Kamalasagar94.76Narayan Chandra Chowdhury19,80856.13Dipak Kumar Roy14,39340.795,41516Bishalgarh95.73Bhanu Lal Saha20,98751.02Samir Ranjan Barman19,26346.831,72417Golaghati94.08Kesab Debbarma19,18155.55Manab Debbarma14,64842.424,53318Suryamaninagar95.62Rajkumar Chowdhury21,61350.47Avijit Deb19,97946.661,63419Charilam93.8Ramendra Narayan Debbarma16,47950.94Himani Debbarma15,13846.791,34120Boxanagar96.3Sahid Chowdhury17,10053.21Billal Miah14,57945.362,52121Nalchar96.46Tapan Chandra Das21,96959.96Uttam Das13,86237.838,10722Sonamura95.13Shyamal Chakraborty18,04352.21Subal Bhowmik16,51747.791,52623Dhanpur96.07Manik Sarkar21,28657.1Shah Alam15,26940.966,01724Ramchandraghat93.07Padma Kumar Debbarma19,50459.15Animesh Debbarma11,61335.227,89125Khowai96.17Samir Deb Sarkar22,69260.82Dipak Majumder13,85937.158,83326Asharambari92.92Aghore Debbarma17,82659.55Amiya Kumar Debbarma10,60935.447,21727Kalyanpur–Pramodenagar93.87Manindra Chandra Das19,75553.78Kajal Chandra Das15,97543.493,78028Teliamura93.51Gouri Das18,35750.2Gourisankar Roy17,04446.611,31329Krishnapur93.75Khagendra Jamatia17,12558.32Sabda Kumar Jamatia11,08337.746,04230Bagma95.04Naresh Chandra Jamatia23,60053.49Jyotish Jamatia19,52544.254,07531Radhakishorpur94.7Pranjit Singha Roy20,14050.23Joy Gobinda Deb Roy19,30348.1583732Matarbari95.78Madhab Chandra Saha22,17850.09Biplab Kumar Ghosh20,86847.131,31033Kakraban–Salgarh94.98Ratan Kumar Bhowmik24,94757.07Rajib Samaddar17,75740.627,19034Rajnagar95.1Sudhan Das23,94263.61Manik Chandra Das12,54533.3311,39735Belonia95.73Basudev Majumder20,58555.6Amal Mallik15,76142.574,82436Santirbazar94.88Manindra Reang20,79852.87Gouri Sankar Reang17,04243.323,75637Hrishyamukh96.22Badal Chowdhury25,00965.42Susankar Bhowmik12,58032.9112,42938Jolaibari95.31Jashabir Tripura24,29561.9Brajendra Mog Chowdhury14,95238.19,34339Manu96.01Jitendra Chaudhury21,32058.07Chandi Charan Tripura14,42439.296,89640Sabroom95.68Rita Kar (Majumder)21,40455.87Premtosh Nath16,19742.285,20741Ampinagar93.06Daniel Jamatia15,71452.69Nagendra Jamatia12,93043.362,78442Amarpur95.7Manoranjan Acharjee19,07554.72Niranjan Barman15,05343.184,02243Karbook94.17Priyamani Debbarma15,52653.4Dharjaroy Tripura12,09141.593,43544Raima Valley92.51Lalit Mohan Tripura18,52751.99Nakshatra Jamatia15,65143.922,87645Kamalpur92.72Bijoy Lakshmi Singha19,20451.15Manoj Kanti Deb17,69047.121,51446Surma92.66Sudhir Das18,64850.51Sukha Ranjan Das16,78645.471,86247Ambassa92.82Lalit Kumar Debbarma18,75549.11Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl17,70146.351,05448Karamcherra91.1Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl15,41149.77Gajendra Tripura14,03945.341,37249Chawamanu89.96Nirajoy Tripura15,87050.8Zaidami Tripura14,37546.011,49550Pabiachhara92.74Samiran Malakar18,50449.81Satyaban Das17,25446.441,25051Fatikroy92.52Tunubala Malakar17,89951.18Jugal Malakar16,03445.841,86552Chandipur91.92Tapan Chakraborty21,00958.43Nirmalendu Deb13,38037.217,62953Kailashahar91.27Birajit Sinha18,85749.55Moboshar Ali18,37248.2848554Kadamtala–Kurti91.22Fayzur Rahaman14,51442.64Abdul Matin Chowdhury12,58536.981,92955Bagbassa90.53Bijita Nath17,99151.26Jyotirmoy Nath15,05942.912,93256Dharmanagar91.45Biswa Bandhu Sen17,99150.99Amitabha Datta16,14745.771,84457Jubarajnagar94.Ramendra Chandra Debnath18,60253.19Ranadhir Nath15,72444.962,87858Panisagar92.13Subodh Chandra Das15,19651.45Radhika Ranjan Das13,28544.981,91159Pencharthal91.41Arun Kumar Chakma16,60150.46Purnita Chakma15,58447.361,01760Kanchanpur90.59Rajendra Reang (Tripura politician)17,18650.13Drao Kumar Reang16,10546.981,081

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