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A brief look at Tripura Assembly Elections 2013

By Super

| Updated: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 16:51 [IST]

Tripura will go the assembly election on February 14 and it will be the first election of the year. Polls will be held in all 60 constituencies of the state. The Left Front has been in power for twenty years at a stretch and the Oppoistion, Congress, will be trying to topple it to regain power after 1993.

The current chief minister, Manik Sarkar, is in power since 1998 when he had replaced Dasarath Deb. He was sworn in for the fourth term in 2008. Can Sarkar, considered one of the most humble CMs in the country, extend the stretch of his government? The results of the election will be announced on February 28, along with the results in Meghalaya and Nagaland, the two north-eastern states going to the polls on February 23.

Tripura Assembley Elections (Total 60 ACs)
Status Known For 60 out of 60 Constituencies
Party	Won	Leading	Total
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	49	0	49
Communist Party of India	1	0	1
Indian National Congress	10	0	10
Revolutionary Socialist Party	0	0	0
Bharatiya Janata Party	0	0	0
Others	0	0	0

Tripura Assembley Elections Partywise Result
Party	2013	2008	Margin
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	49	46	+3
Communist Party of India	1	1	0
Indian National Congress	10	10	0
Revolutionary Socialist Party	0	0	0
Bharatiya Janata Party	0	0	0
Others	0	0	0

Partywise position in Tripura

Details of Assembly constituencies
Total Assembly constituencies	60 (30 Gen, SC 10, ST 20)
Assembly constituencies for which elections are being held	60
Assembly constituencies for which Candidates/Voter turnout is Available	60

Electors and Voters
Total Electors	20,38,001
Polling Stations	3,018 (2,391 in 2008)
Votes Polled	(18,59,122 in 2008)
Polling %	(in 2008) 91.22

Number of Candidates
Number of Candidates Parties				249 (313 in 2008)
Party-wise candidates
CPI(M)	Congress	All India Forward Bloc	Indigenous People's Front of Tripura	National Conference of Tripura	RSP	CPI	SP
55	48	1	11	1	2	1	-

Election Schedule in Tripura
Sl. No:	Poll Event
Sl. No:	Poll Event	Date
1.	Issue of Notification	21.1.2013 (Monday)
2.	Last Date for making Nominations	28.1.2013 (Monday)
3.	Scrutiny of Nominations	29.1.2013 (Tuesday)
4.	Last Date for Withdrawal of Candidature	31.1.2013 (Thursday)
5.	Date of Poll	14.2.2013 (Thursday)
6.	Counting of Votes on	28.2.2013 (Thursday)
7.	Date before which the Election shall be Completed	3.3.2013 (Sunday)
8.	Hours of Poll	0700 hrs to 1600 hrs

Result in 2008
Communist Party of India			1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)			46
Indian National Congress			10
Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra			1
Revolutionary Socialist Party			2
Total			60