Barhampur Assembly constituency is one of the 126 assembly constituencies of
Assam
Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...
a north east state of
India
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.
Barhampur is also part of
Nowgong Lok Sabha constituency.
Town Details
*Country: India.
* State: Assam.
* District: Nagaon district.
* Lok Sabha Constituency: Nowgong Lok Sabha/Parliamentary constituency.
* Assembly Categorisation: Rural
* Literacy Level: 73.78%.
* Eligible Electors as per 2021 General Elections: 1,79,107. Eligible Electors. Male Electors:83,020. Female Electors:78,999.
* Geographic Co-Ordinates: 26°17'03.8"N 92°46'30.7"E.
* Total Area Covered: 409 square kilometres.
* Area Includes: Nizsahar, Singia Potani and Kondoli mouzas in Nowgong thana, Kampur Mouza in Kampur thana- Kathiatali Mouza in Jamunamukh thana, and Chalchali Mouza in Samaguri thana, in Nowgong sub- division of Nagaon district of Assam.
* Inter State Border :Nagaon.
* Number Of Polling Stations: Year 2011-182,Year 2016-191,Year 2021-87.
Members of Legislative Assembly
* 1972:
Kehoram Hazarika,
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 ...
.
* 1978:
Lakeshwar Gohain,
Janata Party
The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...
.
* 1983:
Ramesh Phukan,
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 ...
.
* 1985:
Girindra Kumar Baruah
Girindra Kumar Baruah is an Indian politician in Assam. He represented Barhampur in the Assam Assembly during 1985–90. In 1996, he won Nowgong Sadar Assembly Constituency and represented it till 2011, when he lost to Indian National Congress ...
, Independent.
* 1991:
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is an Indian Politician who was the leader of the Assam Movement, a former Chief Minister of Assam (two terms) and the former President of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), a major political party in the Indian state of Assam ...
,
Asom Gana Parishad
Asom Gana Parishad (translation: ''Assam People's Council'', AGP) is a state political party in Assam, India. The AGP was formed after the historic Assam Accord of 1985 and formally launched at the Golaghat Convention held from 13–14 Octobe ...
.
* 1996:
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is an Indian Politician who was the leader of the Assam Movement, a former Chief Minister of Assam (two terms) and the former President of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), a major political party in the Indian state of Assam ...
,
Asom Gana Parishad
Asom Gana Parishad (translation: ''Assam People's Council'', AGP) is a state political party in Assam, India. The AGP was formed after the historic Assam Accord of 1985 and formally launched at the Golaghat Convention held from 13–14 Octobe ...
.
* 2001:
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is an Indian Politician who was the leader of the Assam Movement, a former Chief Minister of Assam (two terms) and the former President of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), a major political party in the Indian state of Assam ...
,
Asom Gana Parishad
Asom Gana Parishad (translation: ''Assam People's Council'', AGP) is a state political party in Assam, India. The AGP was formed after the historic Assam Accord of 1985 and formally launched at the Golaghat Convention held from 13–14 Octobe ...
.
* 2006:
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is an Indian Politician who was the leader of the Assam Movement, a former Chief Minister of Assam (two terms) and the former President of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), a major political party in the Indian state of Assam ...
,
Asom Gana Parishad (Progressive)
Asom Gana Parishad (Progressive), or AGP(P), was a regional political party in Assam, India. It was formed by Prafulla Kumar Mahanta after he was expelled in 2005 by the Asom Gana Parishad for anti-party activities.
In the 2006 Assembly elect ...
.
* 2011:
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is an Indian Politician who was the leader of the Assam Movement, a former Chief Minister of Assam (two terms) and the former President of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), a major political party in the Indian state of Assam ...
,
Asom Gana Parishad
Asom Gana Parishad (translation: ''Assam People's Council'', AGP) is a state political party in Assam, India. The AGP was formed after the historic Assam Accord of 1985 and formally launched at the Golaghat Convention held from 13–14 Octobe ...
.
* 2016:
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is an Indian Politician who was the leader of the Assam Movement, a former Chief Minister of Assam (two terms) and the former President of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), a major political party in the Indian state of Assam ...
,
Asom Gana Parishad
Asom Gana Parishad (translation: ''Assam People's Council'', AGP) is a state political party in Assam, India. The AGP was formed after the historic Assam Accord of 1985 and formally launched at the Golaghat Convention held from 13–14 Octobe ...
.
* 2021:
Jitu Goswami
Jitu Goswami is an Indian politician member of Bharatiya Janata Party from Assam. He is an MLA, elected from the Barhampur constituency in the 2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election
The 2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election was the ...
,
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 ...
.
Election results
2016 results
See also
*
List of constituencies of Assam Legislative Assembly
The Assam Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Assam. It is housed in Dispur, the capital of Assam, geographically situated in present Western Assam region. The Legislative Assembly comprises 126 Members ...
References
External links
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Assembly constituencies of Assam
Nagaon
Nagaon district
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