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

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Highlights

Election to the

Tripura Legislative Assembly The Tripura Legislative Assembly or Tripura Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tripura, with 60 Members of the Legislative Assembly. The present Assembly is located in Gurkhabasti. Ujjayanta Palace in Agartala ser ...

were held on 14 February 2013. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.

Participating Political Parties

No. of Constituencies

Electors

Performance of Women Candidates

Background

The previous elections to the 10th

was held in 2008. As of 2009, of the 60 ACs in Tripura, 20 are reserved for

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and 10 are reserved for

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. February 2013 Elections in all

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s were held using

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. The Left Front, led by

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, 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 ''

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'', the chief election officer of the state told that the

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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

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(CPM) , 1,059,327 , , 48.11 , , 0.10 , 49 , , 3 , - style="text-align:right" , width="1" bgcolor="", , align="left",

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

(INC) , 804,457 , , 36.53 , , 0.15 , 10 , , , - style="text-align:right" , bgcolor="", , align="left",

Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. H ...

(CPI) , 34,500 , , 1.57 , , 0.09 , 1 , , , - style="text-align:right" , bgcolor="", , align="left",

Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (abbr. INPT) was a political party in the Indian state of Tripura. Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl was the President of the party. It merged with the Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Alliance (TIPRA) party on 11 ...

(INPT) , 167,078 , , 7.59 , , 1.38 , 0 , , 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",

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

(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 , -

Winners by Constituency

References

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