2023 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

2023 Tripura Legislative Assembly elections were held on 16 February 2023 to elect all 60 members of the Tripura Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 2 March 2023.

2023 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

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60 seats in the Tripura Legislative Assembly 31 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	89.95% ( 1.43 pp)^[1]
Majority party Minority party   Leader Manik Saha Manik Sarkar Party BJP CPI(M) Alliance NDA SDF Leader since 2022 1998 Leader's seat Town Bordowali Did not contest Last election 43.59%, 36 seats 42.22%, 16 seats Seats won 32 11 Seat change 4 5 Popular vote 985,797 622,869 Percentage 38.97% 24.62% Swing 4.62 pp 17.6 pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma Sudip Roy Barman Party TMP INC Alliance SDF Leader since 2019 2022 Leader's seat Did not contest Agartala Last election Did not exist 1.79%, 0 seat Seats won 13 3 Seat change New 3 Popular vote 498,182 216,637 Percentage 19.7% 8.56% Swing New 6.77 pp
Structure of the Tripura Legislative Assembly after the election
Chief Minister before election Manik Saha BJP Chief Minister after election Manik Saha BJP

The Bharatiya Janata Party won a simple majority, defeating its rivals Secular Democratic Forces and the Tipra Motha Party.^[2] Tipra Motha Party won 13 seats at its debut and became the largest opposition party in Tripura.^[3]

Background

The tenure of 12th Tripura Assembly is scheduled to end on 22 March 2023.^[4] The previous assembly elections were held in February 2018. After the election, Bharatiya Janata Party formed the state government, with Biplab Kumar Deb becoming the Chief Minister.^[5]

Biplab Kumar Deb resigned from Chief Minister post on 14 May 2022^[6] and he was succeeded by Manik Saha as the new chief minister.^[7]

TTAADC elections

Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council elections were held in April 2021, in which the Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance won an astounding victory, drubbing both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of India (Marxist), with the TIPRA and its ally the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra winning a total of 18 out of the 28 elected council seats. The BJP was restricted to 9 seats and the CPI(M) was completely washed out, unable to win any seats, losing their supermajority of 100% seats in the council.^[8]

Major political defections

In 2022, 8 National Democratic Alliance (5 Bharatiya Janata Party and 3 Indigenous People's Front of Tripura) MLAs resigned and left the BJP, out of which 4 joined TIPRA, 3 joined the Indian National Congress, and 1 joined the Trinamool Congress (albeit later resigned from the party).^[9][10] There have been defections in the TTAADC where BJP MDC leader Hangsha Kumar Tripura joined TIPRA.^[11][12]

Schedule

The election schedule was announced by the Election Commission of India on 18 January 2023.^[13]

Poll Event	Schedule
Notification Date	21 January 2023
Last Date for filing nomination	30 January 2023
Scrutiny of nomination	31 January 2023
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination	2 February 2023
Date of Poll	16 February 2023
Date of Counting of Votes	2 March 2023
Date of Oath taking	8 March 2023
1st Cabinet Meeting	9 March 2023

Parties and Alliances

  National Democratic Alliance

 

Map of the seat sharing arrangement between the National Democratic Alliance

Reports emerged in late January in which the Tipra Motha Party was in talks for a possible alliance with the BJP and IPFT. During this time the Tipra Motha Party and the IPFT held talks for a possible merger. However last minute reports later stated that BJP talks with TMP fell off while BJP announced to continue alliance with IPFT, BJP announced that the party was still against IPFT's demand for Tipraland and that the party would be allotted 6 seats as per the alliance agreement.^[14][15][16]

Party^[17]		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested^[18]^[19]
	Bharatiya Janata Party			Manik Saha	55
	Indigenous People's Front of Tripura			Prem Kumar Reang	6
Total					61^[a]

  Secular Democratic Forces

 

Map of the seat sharing arrangement of Secular Democratic Forces

In early January reports emerged that the Congress and CPI(M) had begun talks of a possible alliance between the parties to unitedly defeat the incumbent government (NDA). Congress and CPI(M) had initially held talks with the Tipra Motha Party however both parties later backed out of the talks as each party did not want to change its ideological stance for the alliance with each other.^[20][21] The TMP later announced it would be contesting alone in the upcoming election while on 14 January 2023, the CPI(M) and the Congress announced to enter into seat sharing agreement for the upcoming assembly elections.^[22] General Secretary of the CPI(M) Sitaram Yechury said the main purpose of organising this united front between opposition parties was to defeat the BJP.^[23][24][25] On 25 January 2023, Left Front convenor Narayan Kar announced seat sharing formula : CPI(M) - 43 seats, Congress - 13 seats, CPI - 1 seat, RSP - 1 seat, AIFB - 1 seat and independent - 1 seat. After the Congress announced candidates for 17 seats, Left Front filled candidates in all 60 seats (CPIM - 56, CPI - 1, RSP - 1, AIFB - 1, Independent -1). Later after CPI(M) stated it would withdraw 13 candidates and allot the seats to the INC, however INC stated they were looking for 17 seats. Post discussions INC agreed to 13 seats however they were given preference in choosing the seats in which they want to contest.^[26][27]

Purushuttam Roy Barman, independent candidate of SDF from Ramnagar was also supported by the Tipra Motha Party against the BJP.^[28]

Party^[29]		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Bloc(s)	Seats contested^[18]^[19]
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)			Jitendra Chaudhury^[30]	LF	43
	Indian National Congress			Birajit Sinha	UPA	13
	Communist Party of India			Judhisthir Das^[31]	LF	1
	Revolutionary Socialist Party			Dipak Deb^[32]	LF	1
	All India Forward Bloc			Paresh Chandra Sarkar^[32]	LF	1
	Independent			Purushuttam Roy Barman	LF	1
Total						60

  Tipra Motha Party

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats Contested
	Tipra Motha Party			Pradyot Deb Barma	42^[18]^[19]

Others

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	All India Trinamool Congress			Pijush Kanti Biswas^[33]	28^[18]^[19]
	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation			Partha Karmakar^[34]	1^[19]

Candidates

District	Constituency		NDA			SDF			TMP
	No.	Name	Party		Candidate^[35]^[36]^[37]^[38]	Party		Candidate^[39]^[40]^[41]^[38]	Party		Candidate^[42]^[43]^[38]
West Tripura	1	Simna (ST)		BJP	Binod Debbarma		CPI(M)	Kumodh Debbarma		TMP	Brishaketu Debbarma
	2	Mohanpur		BJP	Ratan Lal Nath		INC	Prasanta Sen Chowdhury		TMP	Tapas Dey
	3	Bamutia (SC)		BJP	Krishnadhan Das		CPI(M)	Nayan Sarkar		TMP	Nitai Sarkar
	4	Barjala (SC)		BJP	Dilip Kumar Das		CPI(M)	Sudip Sarkar
	5	Khayerpur		BJP	Ratan Chakraborty		CPI(M)	Pabitra Kar
	6	Agartala		BJP	Papiya Datta		INC	Sudip Roy Barman
	7	Ramnagar		BJP	Surajit Datta		IND	Purushuttam Roy Barman	TMP supports IND
	8	Town Bordowali		BJP	Manik Saha		INC	Ashish Kumar Saha
	9	Banamalipur		BJP	Rajib Bhattacharjee		INC	Gopal Roy
	10	Majlishpur		BJP	Sushanta Chowdhury		CPI(M)	Sanjoy Das		TMP	Samir Basu
	11	Mandaibazar (ST)		BJP	Tarit Debbarma		CPI(M)	Radhacharan Debbarma		TMP	Swapna Debbarma
Sipahijala	12	Takarjala (ST)		IPFT	Bidhan Debbarma		CPI(M)	Shyamal Debbarma		TMP	Biswajit Kalai
West Tripura	13	Pratapgarh (SC)		BJP	Rebati Mohan Das		CPI(M)	Ramu Das
	14	Badharghat (SC)		BJP	Minarani Sarkar		AIFB	Partha Ranjan Sarkar
Sipahijala	15	Kamalasagar		BJP	Antara Sarkar Deb		CPI(M)	Hiranmoy Narayan Debnath		TMP	Ashish Das
	16	Bishalgarh		BJP	Sushanta Deb		CPI(M)	Partha Pratim Majumder		TMP	Md Shah Alam Miah
	17	Golaghati (ST)		BJP	Himani Debbarma		CPI(M)	Brinda Debbarma		TMP	Manav Debbarma
West Tripura	18	Suryamaninagar		BJP	Ram Prasad Paul		INC	Susanta Chakraborty
Sipahijala	19	Charilam (ST)		BJP	Jishnu Deb Barman		INC	Ashok Debbarma		TMP	Subodh (Khatung) Debbarma
	20	Boxanagar		BJP	Taffajal Hossain		CPI(M)	Samsul Haque		TMP	Abu Khayer Miah
	21	Nalchar (SC)		BJP	Kishor Barman		CPI(M)	Tapan Das
	22	Sonamura		BJP	Debabrata Bhattacharjee		CPI(M)	Shyamal Chakraborty
	23	Dhanpur		BJP	Pratima Bhoumik		CPI(M)	Koushik Chanda		TMP	Amiya Noatia
Khowai	24	Ramchandraghat (ST)		IPFT	Prasanta Debbarma		CPI(M)	Ranjit Debbarma		TMP	Ranjit Debbarma
	25	Khowai		BJP	Subrata Majumdar		CPI(M)	Nirmal Biswas
	26	Asharambari (ST)		IPFT	Jayanti Debbarma		CPI(M)	Dilip Debbarma		TMP	Animesh Debbarma
	27	Kalyanpur-Pramodenagar		BJP	Pinaki Das Chowdhury		CPI(M)	Manindra Das		TMP	Manihar Debbarma
	28	Teliamura		BJP	Kalyani Roy		INC	Ashok Kumar Baidya		TMP	Abhijit Sarkar
	29	Krishnapur (ST)		BJP	Bikash Debbarma		CPI(M)	Swasthi Debbarma		TMP	Mahendra Debbarma
Gomati	30	Bagma (ST)		BJP	Ram Pada Jamatia		CPI(M)	Naresh Jamatia		TMP	Purna Chandra Jamatia
	31	Radhakishorpur		BJP	Pranjit Singha Roy		RSP	Srikanta Datta
	32	Matarbari		BJP	Abhishek Debroy		INC	Pranajit Roy		TMP	Bir Noatia
	33	Kakraban-Salgarh (SC)		BJP	Jitendra Majumdar		CPI(M)	Ratan Kumar Bhowmik		TMP	Kshir Mohan Das
South Tripura	34	Rajnagar (SC)		BJP	Swapna Majumdar		CPI(M)	Sudhan Das		TMP	Abhijit Malakar
	35	Belonia		BJP	Gautam Sarkar		CPI(M)	Dipankar Sen
	36	Santirbazar (ST)		BJP	Pramod Reang		CPI	Satyajit Reang		TMP	Harendra Reang
	37	Hrishyamukh		BJP	Dipayan Chowdhury		CPI(M)	Asoke Chandra Mitra		TMP	Arup Deb
	38	Jolaibari (ST)		IPFT	Sukla Charan Noatia		CPI(M)	Debendra Tripura		TMP	Gaurab (Shihanu) Mog
	39	Manu (ST)		BJP	Mailafru Mog		CPI(M)	Pravat Chowdhury		TMP	Dhananjoy Tripura
	40	Sabroom		BJP	Sankar Roy		CPI(M)	Jitendra Chaudhury
Gomati	41	Ampinagar (ST)		BJP	Patal Kanya Jamatiya^[a]		CPI(M)	Parikshit Kalai		TMP	Pathan Lal Jamatia
				IPFT	Sindhu Chandra Jamatia^[a]
	42	Amarpur		BJP	Ranjit Das		CPI(M)	Parimal Debnath		TMP	Ashi Ram Reang
	43	Karbook (ST)		BJP	Ashim Tripura		CPI(M)	Priyamani Debbarma		TMP	Sanjay Manik Tripura
Dhalai	44	Raima Valley (ST)		BJP	Bikas Chakma		CPI(M)	Pabin Tripura		TMP	Nandita Debbarma Reang
	45	Kamalpur		BJP	Manoj Kanti Deb		INC	Rubi Ghosh		TMP	Meri Debbarma
	46	Surma (SC)		BJP	Swapna Das Paul		CPI(M)	Anjan Das		TMP	Shyamal Sarkar
	47	Ambassa (ST)		BJP	Suchitra Debbarma		CPI(M)	Amalendu Debbarma		TMP	Chitta Ranjan Debbarma
	48	Karamcherra (ST)		BJP	Brajalal Debnath		INC	Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl		TMP	Paul Dangshu
	49	Chawamanu (ST)		BJP	Sambhu Lal Chakma		CPI(M)	Jiban Mohan Tripura		TMP	Hongsa Kumar Tripura
Unakoti	50	Pabiachhara (SC)		BJP	Bhagaban Chandra Das		INC	Satyaban Das		TMP	Gobinda Das
	51	Fatikroy (SC)		BJP	Sudhangshu Das		CPI(M)	Subrata Das		TMP	Bilas Malakar
	52	Chandipur		BJP	Tinku Roy		CPI(M)	Krishnendu Chowdhury		TMP	Ranjan Sinha
	53	Kailashahar		BJP	Moboshar Ali		INC	Birajit Sinha
North Tripura
	54	Kadamtala-Kurti		BJP	Dilip Tanti		CPI(M)	Islam Uddin
	55	Bagbassa		BJP	Jadab Lal Nath		CPI(M)	Bijita Nath		TMP	Kalpana Sinha
	56	Dharmanagar		BJP	Biswa Bandhu Sen		INC	Chayan Bhattacharya
	57	Jubarajnagar		BJP	Malina Debnath		CPI(M)	Shailendra Chandra Debnath
	58	Panisagar		BJP	Binay Bhushan Das		CPI(M)	Shital Das		TMP	Joy Chung Halam
	59	Pencharthal (ST)		BJP	Santana Chakma		CPI(M)	Sadhan Kumar Chakma		TMP	Hollywood Chakma
	60	Kanchanpur (ST)		IPFT	Prem Kumar Reang		CPI(M)	Rajendra Reang		TMP	Phillip Kumar Reang

Issues

10323 Teachers batch

In 2017, a Tripura High Court order was confirmed by a Supreme Court bench that declared the recruitment of teachers in batches between 2010 and 2013 to be "unconstitutional" because of a policy that gave preference to poor and senior candidates. The confirmation had happened a few months before the 2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election and the Bharatiya Janata Party had promised that the teachers would be retained if they came to power and their jobs would be saved even if they had to resort to amending the constitution. The teachers, numbering 10,323 extended their support to the BJP in the election and were moved to a contractual status for about two years but were then terminated and replaced with new hires. The teachers faced economic hardships after the sacking and many of them have become indebted and have resorted to menial jobs. Of those sacked, 150 have died with 8 of them confirmed to be suicides, including Rumi Debbarma, a master's degree gold medalist, who was forcefully evicted from an indefinite roadside protest and couldn't take the humiliation of termination.^[44][45]

The teachers had held hundreds of protests, demonstration and rallies, and met with several chief ministers and their cabinets. The protests were met with harsh police actions and cases lodged against several of the teachers. The BJP government in Tripura has shifted its position and refused to reinstate the teachers, one minister Ratan Lal Nath had called them unqualified.^[44][45]

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) have extended their support to the teachers and promised to reinstate them in its manifesto. To give assurances to their promise, The Left Front has fielded two of the teachers Sudip Sarkar (CPIM) and Satyajit Reang (CPI) as its own candidates from the constituencies of Barjala and Santirbazar respectively. Former chief minister Manik Sarkar has stated that the order was "most unfortunate" as it overturned a policy that they had introduced to help the weaker sections of society and even alleged that the bench was linked to the Sangh Parivar.^[44][45] The Tipra Motha Party and lawyer Kapil Sibal, an independent MP have also extended their support to the teachers.^[46]

Tipraland Movement

The Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) has demanded a separate state called Tipraland. However the ruling party BJP refuses to bifurcate the state.^[47] TIPRA party also has won elections in 2021 Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council election. The TTADC areas have 20 of the 60 Assembly seats in Tripura Legislative Assembly.

Ruling BJP has offered talk with the TIPRA party for their demand. Former Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb stated that demands by TIPRA are not possible without BJP.^[48] But Chief Minister, Manik Saha said that Tipraland is not possible.^[49]

Home Ministry on 25 January 2023 called upon TIPRA leadership to discuss the issue of Greater Tipraland. The talk however did not result in any announcement as the delegates did not reach to any agreement.^[50][51]

Bru refugees

Bru refugees who are living in shelters are demanding food and monetary help. They are demanding faster rehabilitation.^[52]

Campaigns

Bharatiya Janata Party

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Agartala, Tripura on 18 December 2022 and addressed a public meeting. He was welcomed by his supporters at the city. He praised the work done by the BJP government and said that Tripura is becoming logistics hub of northeast India.^[53][54]

Manifesto^[55]

• More autonomy to the tribal areas amid a demand for a separate state.
• A meal in Rs. 5.
• Rs. 50,000 to EWS families on the birth of a girl-child.
• A scooty to meritorious college going girls.
• Smart phones to 50,000 meritorious students.
• Two free LPG cylinders to the beneficiaries of PM Ujjwala Yojana.
• Land pattas to all eligible landless citizens.
• Financial assistance of Rs 3,000 per year to landless farmers.
• Annual financial assistance of Rs 5,000 to ST families under Tripura Janjati Bikash Yojana.
• Establishment of Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya Tribal University in Gandacherra to research, promote and preserve tribal culture and studies.

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

CPI(M) launched door-to-door campaign against the ‘propaganda’ of BJP's ‘Good Governance’ on 25 December 2022 and urged people not to establish the BJP government.^[56] On 8 January 2023, CPIM leaders appealed people to oust the incumbent government mentioning BJP's 2018 poll promises as 'jumla' (false promise) in a public meeting organised by Centre of Indian Trade Unions.^[57]

Manifesto

CPI(M) released its manifesto on 3 February 2023.^{[58][59][60][61]}

• Restoration of democratic, political and religious rights.
• 200-day work to the poor under MGNREGA.
• Bring back the Old Pension Scheme if it came to power. The scheme has been reimplemented in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Himachal Pradesh.^[62]
• 250,000 new jobs in government, semi-government and private sectors in next 5 years.
• Free electricity up to 50 units per family.
• Two DA hikes for government employees every year based on consumer prime index.
• Reinstatement of the 10,323 suspended teachers.
• Regularisation of services of contractual employees.
• Maximum possible autonomy to the tribal council (TTAADC).
• Social pension to seniors (>60 years) earning under ₹1 lakh (100,000 rupees) per year.
• Ban on privatisation of educational institutions.
• Land allotment to landless people.

Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress organised a mega rally in Agartala on 29 December 2022 in which BJP MLA Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl along with 1 BJP & AITC leader joined the Congress. AICC in-charge for Tripura Ajoy Kumar said at the rally, "BJP has so many fathers but we have only one father of the nation - Mahatma Gandhi,". Kumar alleged that the BJP is giving money to young people to join their "Bike Bahini" to unleash panic and assault opposition party leaders and workers.^[10]

Manifesto^[63]

• Old pension scheme for government employees.
• Free 150 units of electricity.
• 50,000 new jobs will be created for agriculture labourers.
• Dearness allowance hike twice a year for government employees.
• Wages of tea cultivators and farmers will be increased based on consumer price index.
• 50,000 new government jobs will be created in the next 5 years.

Tipra Motha Party

TIPRA chief Pradyot Deb Barma in a rally in Agartala on 12 November 2022 said that 2023 is a fight to achieve a permanent constitutional solution in the form of Greater Tipraland. He slammed the BJP for its communal politics. He asserted that regional parties can bring about change and that his party wanted to give a constitutional solution, education, healthcare and jobs to all sections of people.^[64] Manikya also emphasized that since when the party had come to power in the TTAADC last year, it has focused on bring real development in the neglected regions.^[65]

Manifesto

On 4 February 2023, the Tipra Motha Party released its manifesto.^[66]

• Speedy public grievance redressal system for citizens.
• Hike in budget of TTAADC.
• 20,000 fresh jobs and opportunities
• Land allotment to deprived people.
• Setting up of a Tribal University, Agriculture University, Sports University and Buddhist University.
• Resolution against Citizenship Amendment Act in state assembly.
• Socio-economic survey of all tribes.
• Maharani Kanchanprabha Devi Women Empowerment Scheme for small-scale micro industries for production of rignai, risa along with packaged food awareness campaign through state-run schemes.
• Rights for LGBTQ individuals.
• 30% subsidies for entrepreneurship.

Incidents

Indian National Congress

On 18 January 2023, the Congress claimed 15 of its workers and functionaries were attacked in Jirania allegedly by BJP workers who pelted stones. The attacked included AICC state-incharge Ajoy Kumar and many others.^[67][68]

Tipra Motha Party

On 19 January 2023, TIPRA Motha worker Pranajit Namasudra died after being attacked by unidentified miscreants in Dhalai. It has been reported that Namasudra and friends were travelling in a car through Bamancherra area when miscreants stopped them then dragged him out and assaulted him.^[69][70] Five persons were arrested by police in relation to the incident.^[71]

Surveys & Polls

Election Commission of India had banned opinion polls and exit polls from 14 February till 7:00 pm of 27 February 2023.^[72][73] Controversy erupted in Tripura on 27 February during the polling an exit poll was circulated in social media which favoured BJP, Congress leader Sudip Roy Barman asked ECI to probe and Tipra Motha Party leader Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma called the exit poll BJP-paid.^[74]

Polling agency
	NDA	SDF	TMP	Others
Zee News-Matrize^[75]^[76]	29–36	13–21	11–16	0–3
India Today-Axis My India^[76]	36–45	6–11	9–16	1
Times Now-ETG^[77]	21–27	18–24	12–17	1–2
India News-Jan Ki Baat	29–40	9–16	10–14	0–1
Poll of Polls (Average)^[78]	32	15	12	0
Actual Result	33	14	13	0

Results

Results by alliance and party

Results^[79]

Alliance		Party		Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	NDA		Bharatiya Janata Party	985,797	38.97	4.62	55	32	4
			Indigenous People's Front of Tripura	31,838	1.26	6.12	6	1	7
			Total	1,017,635	40.23	10.78	60^[a]	33	11
	SDF		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	622,829	24.62	17.6	43	11	5
			Indian National Congress	216,637	8.56	6.77	13	3	1
			All India Forward Bloc	26,138	1.03	0.47	1	0
			Revolutionary Socialist Party	17,007	0.67	0.08	1	0
			Independent	16,558	0.65	N/A	1	0	N/A
			Communist Party of India	12,063	0.48	0.34	1	0
			Total	911,232	36.01	10.08	60	14	2
None			Tipra Motha Party	498,182	19.69	19.7	42	13	New
			Trinamool Congress	22,316	0.88	0.58	28	0
			Independents	40279	1.6	TBD		0
			Others		0.23	TBD		0
			NOTA	34,449	1.36	0.33
		Total			100%
Valid votes				2,495,210
Invalid votes
Votes cast/ turnout				2,537,769	89.83%
Abstentions
Registered voters				2,824,928

Results by district

District	Seats	NDA	SDF	TMP
West Tripura	14	7	5	2
Sipahijala	9	4	2	3
Khowai	6	3	1	2
Gomati	7	5	0	2
South Tripura	7	4	3	0
Dhalai	6	3	0	3
Unakoti	4	3	1	0
North Tripura	7	4	2	1
Total	60	33	14	13

Results by constituency

Source:^[80][81]

District	Constituency		Winner					Runner Up					Margin
	No.	Name	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%
West Tripura	1	Simna (ST)	Brishaketu Debbarma		TMP	22,757	64.89	Kumodh Debbarma		CPI(M)	5,811	16.57	16,946
	2	Mohanpur	Ratan Lal Nath		BJP	19,663	45.34	Tapas Dey		TMP	12,278	28.31	7,385
	3	Bamutia (SC)	Nayan Sarkar		CPI(M)	20,119	46.39	Krishnadhan Das		BJP	18,093	41.72	2,026
	4	Barjala (SC)	Sudip Sarkar		CPI(M)	21,486	50.93	Dr. Dilip Kumar Das		BJP	19,697	46.69	1,789
	5	Khayerpur	Ratan Chakraborty		BJP	22,453	47.48	Pabitra Kar		CPI(M)	18,343	38.79	4,110
	6	Agartala	Sudip Roy Barman		INC	26,435	57.35	Papiya Dutta		BJP	18,273	39.64	8,162
	7	Ramnagar	Surajit Datta		BJP	17,455	46.2	Purushuttam Roy Barman		IND	16,558	43.83	897
	8	Town Bordowali	Manik Saha		BJP	19,586	49.77	Ashish Kumar Saha		INC	18,329	46.6	1,257
	9	Banamalipur	Gopal Chandra Roy		INC	17,128	49.58	Rajib Bhattacharjee		BJP	15,759	45.61	1,369
	10	Majlishpur	Sushanta Chowdhury		BJP	21,349	46.8	Sanjoy Das		CPI(M)	16,177	35.46	5,172
	11	Mandaibazar (ST)	Swapna Debbarma		TMP	28,726	66.35	Radhacharan Debbarma		CPI(M)	7,077	16.35	21,649
Sipahijala	12	Takarjala (ST)	Biswajit Kalai		TMP	34,717	86.81	Bidhan Debbarma		IPFT	2,262	5.66	32,455
West Tripura	13	Pratapgarh (SC)	Ramu Das		CPI(M)	26,422	49.61	Rebati Mohan Das		BJP	24,336	45.7	2,086
	14	Badharghat (SC)	Mina Rani Sarkar		BJP	27,427	48.94	Partha Ranjan Sarkar		AIFB	26,138	46.64	1,289
Sipahijala	15	Kamalasagar	Antara Sarkar Deb		BJP	19,052	47.39	Hiranmay Narayan Debnath		CPI(M)	17,308	43.06	1,744
	16	Bishalgarh	Sushanta Deb		BJP	22,314	48.52	Partha Pratim Majumder		CPI(M)	20,988	45.64	1,326
	17	Golaghati (ST)	Manab Debbarma		TMP	19,800	50.79	Himani Debbarma		BJP	10,602	27.2	9,198
West Tripura	18	Suryamaninagar	Ram Prasad Paul		BJP	24,991	49.92	Susanta Chakraborty		INC	23,083	46.11	1,908
Sipahijala	19	Charilam (ST)	Subodh Deb Barma		TMP	13,657	37.34	Jishnu Dev Varma		BJP	12,799	34.99	858
	20	Boxanagar	Samsul Haque		CPI(M)	19,404	50.34	Tafajjal Hossain		BJP	14,555	37.76	4,849
	21	Nalchar (SC)	Kishor Barman		BJP	20,836	49.95	Tapan Chandra Das		CPI(M)	18,452	44.24	2,384
	22	Sonamura	Shyamal Chakraborty		CPI(M)	20,039	50.47	Debabrata Bhattacharjee		BJP	17,624	44.39	2,415
	23	Dhanpur	Pratima Bhoumik		BJP	19,148	42.25	Kaushik Chanda		CPI(M)	15,648	34.53	3,500
Khowai	24	Ramchandraghat (ST)	Ranjit Debbarma		TMP	23,143	60.87	Ranjit Debbarma		CPI(M)	6,941	18.26	16,202
	25	Khowai	Nirmal Biswas		CPI(M)	19,696	49.73	Subrata Majumdar		BJP	18,656	47.1	1,040
	26	Asharambari (ST)	Animesh Debbarma		TMP	23,838	66.56	Jayanti Deb Barma		IPFT	5,510	15.38	18,328
	27	Kalyanpur-Pramodenagar	Pinaki Das Chowdhury		BJP	17,903	43.59	Jayanti Deb Barma		TMP	11,290	27.49	6,613
	28	Teliamura	Kalyani Saha Roy		BJP	16,755	42.1	Ashok Kr. Baidya		INC	12,603	31.67	4,152
	29	Krishnapur (ST)	Bikash Debbarma		BJP	13,800	39.97	Mahendra Debbarma		TMP	11,162	32.33	2,638
Gomati	30	Bagma (ST)	Ram Pada Jamatia		BJP	19,482	38.74	Purna Ch. Jamatia		TMP	17,399	34.6	2,083
	31	Radhakishorpur	Pranajit Singha Roy		BJP	24,421	56.07	Srikanta Datta		RSP	17,007	39.05	7,414
	32	Matarbari	Abhishek Debroy		BJP	25,494	51.06	Pranajit Roy		INC	16,453	32.95	9,041
	33	Kakraban-Salgarh (SC)	Jitendra Majumder		BJP	23,625	48.17	Ratan Kr. Bhowmik		CPI(M)	18,574	37.87	5,051
South Tripura	34	Rajnagar (SC)	Swapna Majumder		BJP	20,849	48.07	Sudhan Das		CPI(M)	19,514	45	1,335
	35	Belonia	Dipankar Sen		CPI(M)	20,016	48.27	Goutam Sarkar		BJP	19,613	47.3	403
	36	Santirbazar (ST)	Pramod Reang		BJP	18,709	40.04	Harendra Reang		TMP	14,615	31.28	4,094
	37	Hrishyamukh	Asoke Chandra Mitra		CPI(M)	19,986	46.37	Dipayan Choudhury		BJP	18,568	43.08	1,418
	38	Jolaibari (ST)	Sukla Charan Noatia		IPFT	17,621	38.54	Debendra Tripura		CPI(M)	17,246	37.72	375
	39	Manu (ST)	Mailafru Mog		BJP	15,469	34.5	Pravat Chowdhury		CPI(M)	14,922	33.28	547
	40	Sabroom	Jitendra Chaudhury		CPI(M)	21,801	49.02	Sankar Roy		BJP	21,405	48.13	396
Gomati	41	Ampinagar (ST)	Pathan Lal Jamatia		TMP	21,525	57.03	Patal Kanya Jamatia		BJP	9,339	24.74	12,186
	42	Amarpur	Ranjit Das		BJP	17,989	44.21	Parimal Debnath		CPI(M)	13,395	32.92	4,594
	43	Karbook (ST)	Sanjoy Manik Tripura		TMP	16,647	44.88	Ashim Kumar Tripura		BJP	12,200	32.89	4,447
Dhalai	44	Raima Valley (ST)	Nandita Debbarma(Reang)		TMP	19,269	40.66	Bikash Chakma		BJP	15,827	33.40	3,442
	45	Kamalpur	Manoj Kanti Deb		BJP	18,287	45.16	Rubi Ghosh		INC	13,027	32.17	5,260
	46	Surma (SC)	Swapna Das Paul		BJP	17,313	40.3	Anjan Das		CPI(M)	12,475	29.04	4,838
	47	Ambassa (ST)	Chitta Ranjan Debbarma		TMP	15,317	33.27	Suchitra Debbarma		BJP	14,824	32.19	493
	48	Karamcherra (ST)	Paul Dangshu		TMP	20,496	52.73	Braja Lal Tripura		BJP	9,901	25.47	10,595
	49	Chawamanu (ST)	Sambhu Lal Chakma		BJP	16,644	41.85	Hangsa Kumar Tripura		TMP	13,745	34.56	2,899
Unakoti	50	Pabiachhara (SC)	Bhagaban Das		BJP	19,542	44.46	Satyaban Das		INC	19,134	43.53	408
	51	Fatikroy (SC)	Sudhangshu Das		BJP	19,570	49.96	Subrata Das		CPI(M)	14,458	36.91	5,112
	52	Chandipur	Tinku Roy		BJP	17,395	42.68	Krishnendu Choudhury		CPI(M)	16,818	41.26	577
	53	Kailashahar	Birajit Sinha		INC	25,300	59.62	Moboshor Ali		BJP	15,614	36.8	9,686
North Tripura	54	Kadamtala-Kurti	Islam Uddin		CPI(M)	20,012	49.65	Dilip Tanti		BJP	18,120	44.95	1,892
	55	Bagbassa	Jadab Lal Debnath		BJP	18,905	47.41	Bijita Nath		CPI(M)	17,444	43.74	1,461
	56	Dharmanagar	Biswa Bandhu Sen		BJP	18,684	49.35	Chayan Bhattacharya		INC	17,586	46.45	1,098
	57	Jubarajnagar	Sailendra Chandra Nath		CPI(M)	19,386	49.29	Malina Debnath		BJP	19,090	48.54	296
	58	Panisagar	Binay Bhushan Das		BJP	15,745	41.61	Sital Das		CPI(M)	13,247	35.01	2,498
	59	Pencharthal (ST)	Santana Chakma		BJP	17,781	45.5	Sadhan Kumar Chakma		CPI(M)	9,808	25.1	7,973
	60	Kanchanpur (ST)	Philip Kumar Reang		TMP	15,413	36.44	Rajendra Reang		CPI(M)	10,522	24.88	4,891

Government formation

Imcumbent Chief Minister Manik Saha gave resignation to Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya and staked claim new government with support of 33 MLAs (32 BJP and 1 IPFT).^[82][83]

Aftermath

After the poll results, violent attacks were unleashed on the workers of Left Front and Congress, allegedly by BJP. The CPI(M) demanded a judicial inquiry into the violence and also wrote to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seeking intervention in the matter.^[84][85] Partido Comunista Português expressed its solidarity with CPI(M), CPI and other democratic and progressive forces in Tripura.^[86] A delegation composed of Member of Parliaments from CPI(M), CPI and Congress visited Tripura on 10 March 2023 and met with the affected families and administration officials to assess the situation on the ground.^[85]

See also

• 2023 elections in India

Notes

1. BJP and IPFT will have a contest on Ampinagar constituency

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