The Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, 2013 was held on 25 November 2013 in all 40 constituencies of the Legislative Assembly of Mizoram. Results were declared on 9 December. The main contest was between incumbent the

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 E ...

and the

Mizo National Front The Mizo National Front ( MNF) is a regional political party in Mizoram, India. MNF emerged from the Mizo National Famine Front, which was formed by Pu Laldenga to protest against the inaction of the Indian central government towards the fami ...

led Mizoram Democratic Alliance. Incumbent Chief Minister

Pu Lalthanhawla Lal Thanhawla (born 19 May 1938 or 1942) is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Mizoram, belonging to the Indian National Congress party. He holds the record for longest-serving Chief Minister of Mizoram, occupying the position fo ...

and his party

won a majority and continued in government.

Background

The election for 40 seats legislative assembly was held on 25 November 2013. There were 6.9 lakh eligible voters.

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(VVPAT) along with EVMs was used on a large-scale for the first time in India, in 10 assembly seats out of 40 in Mizoram elections. The seven armed battalion of state police and 31 companies of central para-military forces and other state police were deployed for peaceful election.

Candidates

There were total 142 candidates including 40 Congress and 40 Mizoram Democratic Alliance (MDA) candidates. MDA candidates include 31 Mizo National Front (MNF), 8

Mizoram People's Conference The Mizoram People's Conference was a regional political party in Mizoram, India. It was formed by Brig Thenphunga Sailo on 17 April 1975. Ṭhenphunga was the party chairman and Chief Minister of Mizoram from 1979 to 1984, and an army officer ...

(MPC) and one

Maraland Democratic Front Maraland Democratic Front was a regional political party in the Indian state of Mizoram. The party was active amongst the Mara people in the southern part of the state. The party had run the Mara Autonomous District Council (one of three autonom ...

(MDF) candidates. 38

Zoram Nationalist Party Zoram Nationalist Party is recognized as the state political party in Mizoram, India. The party known as formerly Mizo National Front (Nationalist). It is led by former MP Lalduhoma. MNF(N) was formed in 1997 through a split in the Mizo Nation ...

, 17

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 Mod ...

, 2

Nationalist Congress Party The Nationalist Congress Party ( NCP) is one of the nine national parties in India. The party generally supports Indian nationalism and Gandhian secularism. It is the largest opposition party in Maharashtra and is also a significant party ...

and one Jai Maha Bharath Party candidate also contested. There were total six female candidates including 3 Bharatiya Janata Party candidates, one Congress, one MNF and one other female candidate. All the seats were reserved for

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candidates, except Lunglei South.

Results

The result was declared on 9 December 2013.

won a large majority of 34 out of 40 seats.

and

won five seats and one seat respectively. 81% of eligible voters turned out to vote.

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Contested !! Won !! Net Change
in seats !! % of
Seats ! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in
vote % , - style="background: #90EE90;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, 40 , , 34 , , 2 , , 85.0 , , 2,55,917 , , 45.83 , , , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, , 31 , , 5 , , 2 , , 12.5 , , 1,64,305 , , 28.65 , , , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, , 8 , , 1 , , 1 , , 2.5 , , 35,269 , , 32.02 , , , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, 17 , , 0 , , , , , , 2,139 , , 0.87 , , , - class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3, ! style="text-align:center;" , Total !! 40 !! style="text-align:center;" , Voters !! 5,73,417 !! style="text-align:center;" , Turnout ! colspan = 2, 81% , - , colspan="7", Mizoram Legislative Assembly 2013

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(INC) , 255,917 , , 44.3 , , 5.4 , 34 , , 2 , -style="text-align:right" , bgcolor="", , align="left",

(MNF) , 164,305 , , 28.4 , , 2.3 , 5 , , 2 , -style="text-align:right" , bgcolor="blue", , align="left",

(ZNP) , 99,916 , , 17.3 , , 7.3 , 0 , , 2 , -style="text-align:right" , bgcolor="", , align="left",

(MPC) , 35,269 , , 6.1 , , 4.3 , 1 , , 1 , -style="text-align:right" , , align="left" ,

(MDF) , 5,433 , , 0.9 , , 0.1 , 0 , , 1 , -style="text-align:right" , bgcolor="" , , align="left" ,

(NCP) , 4,835 , , 0.8 , , 0.7 , 0 , , , -style="text-align:right" , width="1" bgcolor="" , , align="left" ,

(BJP) , 2,139 , , 0.37 , , 0.07 , 0 , , , -style="text-align:right" , bgcolor="" , , align="left" , Independents (IND) , 1,764 , , 0.3 , , 7.4 , 0 , , , -style="text-align:right" , , align="left", Jai Maha Bharath Party (JMBP) , 29 , , 0.0 , , , 0 , , , -style="text-align:right" , bgcolor="black", , align="left", None of the Above (NOTA) , 8,810 , , 1.5 , , 1.5 , , , , - , colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9", , - style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold;" , align="left" colspan="2", Total , 573,417 , , 100.00 , , bgcolor="#E9E9E9", , 40 , , ±0 , -

Elected Members

References

{{Mizoram elections 2013 State Assembly elections in India State Assembly elections in Mizoram 2010s in Mizoram