Tripura Tripura (, Bengali: ) is a state in Northeast India. The third-smallest state in the country, it covers ; and the seventh-least populous state with a population of 36.71 lakh ( 3.67 million). It is bordered by Assam and Mizoram to the eas ...

was recognized as a state in India on January 21, 1972. Before that,

was a Union Territory. The first Legislative Assembly Election as a state was held on March 11, 1972. The 1972

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 ...

election took place in a single phase to elect the

Members of the Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. ...

(MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India.

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 ...

led by

Sukhamoy Sen Gupta Sukhamoy Sen Gupta (September 1919 – c. 2003), also known as Sukhamoy Sengupta, was an Indian politician. He was the Chief Minister of Tripura in India as a member of the Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), ...

, won 41 seats and formed a Government in

Highlights

Election to the

were held on March 11, 1972. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.

Participating Political Parties

Partytype Abbreviation	Party
National Parties
1	BJS	Bharatiya Jan Sangh
2	CPI	Communist Party of India
3	CPM	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4	INC	Indian National Congress
State Parties
5	FBL	All India Forward Bloc
Registered(Unrecognised ) Parties
6	TUS	Tripura Upajati Zuba Samiti
Independents
7	IND	Independent

No. of Constituencies

Electors

Performance of Women Candidates

Result

Constituency wise Winners

AC No	Assembly Constituency Name	Winner Candidates Name	Gender	Party
1	Simna (ST)	Bhadramani Debbarma	M	CPM
2	Mohanpur	Radharaman Debnath	M	CPM
3	Bamutia (SC)	Prafulla Kumar Das	M	INC
4	Barjala	Basana Chakrabarty	M	INC
5	Kunjaban	Ashok Kumar Bhatacharyya	M	INC
6	Pratapgarh (SC)	Madhu Sudhan Das	M	INC
7	Agartala Town I I I	Sukhamoy Sen Gupta	M	INC
8	Anandanagar	Tarit Mohan Dasgupta	M	INC
9	Agartala Town I	Ajoy Biswas	M	IND
10	Agartala Town I I	Krishnadas Bhattacharjee	M	INC
11	Old Agartala	Sailesh Chandra Some	M	INC
12	Maulishpur	Jatindra Kumar Majumder	M	INC
13	Mandiabazar (ST)	Kalidas Deb Barma	M	CPM
14	Uttar Debendra Nagar (ST)	Sabhiram Deb Barma	M	CPM
15	Isuanchandranagar	Naresh Chandra Roy	M	INC
16	Takarjala (ST)	Gunapada Jamatia	M	CPM
17	Kamalasagar	Bichitra Mohan Saha	M	INC
18	Bishalgarh	Samir Ranjan Barman	M	INC
19	Charilam (ST)	Niranjan Deb	M	CPM
20	Bishramgonj (ST)	Sudhanwa Deb Barma	M	CPM
21	Boxanagar	Munsur Ali	M	INC
22	Nalchhar (SC)	Benode Behari Das	M	INC
23	Sonamura	Debendra K. Choudhury	M	INC
24	Dhanpur	Samar Choudhury	M	CPM
25	Salgarh	Tapas Dey Tapas Dey is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly su ...	M	INC
26	Kakraban	Ajit Ranjan Ghosh	M	INC
27	Radhakishorepur	Usa Ranjan Sen	M	INC
28	Matakbari	Nishi Kanta Sarkar	M	INC
29	Rajnagar	Lakshmi Nag	M	INC
30	Belonia	Jitendra Lal Das Jitendra Lal Das ''popularly known as'' Junu Das was an Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India. He was a member of the Tripura Legislative Assembly, representing the Belonia constituency from 1972 to 1977. He was one of t ...	M	CPI
31	Hrishyamukh	Chandra Sekhar Dutta	M	INC
32	Muhuripur (ST)	Achaichhi Mog	M	INC
33	Manu (ST)	Hari Chanran Choudhrury	M	INC
34	Sabroom	Kalipada Banerji	M	INC
35	Chellagong (ST)	Baju Ban Riyan	M	CPM
36	Birgonj	Sushil Ranjan Saha	M	INC
37	Dumburnagar (ST)	Pakhi Tripura	M	CPM
38	Ampinagar (ST)	Bullu Kuki	M	CPM
39	Teliamura	Anil Sarkar	M	CPM
40	Mohar Chhera (ST)	Ananta Harijamatia	M	INC
41	Kalyanpur (ST)	Bidya Ch Deb Barma	M	CPM
42	Pramodnagar (ST)	Manindra Debbarma	M	CPM
43	Khowai	J Prasanna Bhattacharjee	M	INC
44	Asharambari	Nripendra Chakraborty	M	CPM
45	Kamalpur	Sunil Chandra Datta	M	INC
46	Sudma (SC)	Kshitish Chandra Das	M	INC
47	Kulaihower (ST)	Mongchabai Mog	M	INC
48	Chhawmanu (ST)	Purna Mohan Tirpura	M	CPM
49	Fatikroy	Radhika Nandan Gupta	M	INC
50	Pabiachherra (ST)	Gopi Nath Tripura	M	INC
51	Chandipur	Manindra Lal Bhowmik	M	INC
52	Kailashahar	Moulana Abdul Ratif	M	INC
53	Bilaspur (SC)	Subal Ch Biswas	M	INC
54	Jubaraj Nagar	Monoranjan Nath	M	INC
55	Longai (ST)	Hangshadhwaz Dewan	M	INC
56	Kanchanpur (ST)	Raimuni Riang Choudhury	M	INC
57	Deochhera	Abdul Wazid	M	INC
58	Dharmanagar	Amarendra Sarma	M	IND
59	Kadamtala	Benoy Bhushan Banerjee	M	INC
60	Sonichera	Radha Raman Nath	M	INC

Government formation

,(INC) won 41 out of 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The CPI-M won 18 seats in the Legislative Assembly.

of the INC formed a government as Chief Minister on March 20, 1972.

Prafulla Kumar Das Prafullah Kumar Das (born )"Illegal migrations and the North-east: a study of migrants from Bangladesh", De, Sibopada, 2005, pg. 134 was the Chief Minister of Tripura state of India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is ...

formed a government as Chief Minister on April 1, 1977.

Radhika Ranjan Gupta Radhika Ranjan Gupta (died 15 May 1998) was an Indian politician. He was Chief Minister of Tripura in India from 26 July 1977 to 4 November 1977. At that time the socio-international situation was unfavourable. On 26 July 1977, he, as the leader ...

formed a coalition government with the

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 Nat ...

,(JP) and the Left Front,(LF) on July 26, 1977. Chief Minister

resigned, and the state of Tripura was placed under

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from November 5, 1977 to January 5, 1978.

References

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