Tezpur
Constituency No. 73 for the Assam Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNortheast India
StateAssam
DistrictSonitpur
LS constituencyTezpur
Total electors149,833
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Assam Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party  AGP
Elected year2021

Tezpur Assembly constituency is one of the 126 assembly constituencies of Assam a north east state of India. Tezpur is also part of Tezpur Lok Sabha constituency.The longest serving representative of the constituency was Brindaban Goswami who represented the constituency for almost 25 years.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Member of Legislative Assembly Portrait Political party Term starts Term ends
Kamala Prasad Agarwala Indian National Congress 1957 1962
1962 1967
Bishnu Prasad Rabha Independent 1967 1969 Died in 1969
Bijoy Chandra Bhagavati Indian National Congress 1970 1972
Rabindra Kumar Goswami 1972 1978
Jiban Bora Janata Party 1978 1983
Nabin Chandra Kath Hazarika Indian National Congress 1983 1985 Deputy Speaker of Assam Legislative Assembly
Brindaban Goswami Independent 1985 1991 Education Minister in First Mahanta Ministry
Bijit Saikia Indian National Congress 1991 1996 Industries Minister in Second Saikia Ministry and Barman Ministry
Brindaban Goswami Asom Gana Parishad 1996 2001
2001 2006 President of Asom Gana Parishad
2006 2011 Leader of Opposition
Rajen Borthakur Indian National Congress 2011 2015 resigned in 2015
Brindaban Goswami Asom Gana Parishad 2016 2021
Prithiraj Rava[1] 2021 Incumbent

    Election result

    1972

    1972 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Tezpur
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    INC Rabindra Kumar Goswami 12,724 44.98
    SSP Purna Naryana Sinha 8,575 30.31
    Independent Prafulla Kumar Goswami 5,798 20.5
    INC(O) Mohiuddin 919 3.25
    Independent Ramdhar Lall 191 0.68
    Independent Pulin Choudhary 80 0.28
    Majority
    Turnout 28,287 56.35
    Registered electors
    INC hold Swing

    1978

    1978 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Tezpur
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    JP Jiban Bora 17,663 51.51
    INC Sreekanth Sarmah 8,602 25.08
    Independent Dilip Basu 4,490 13.09
    INC(I) Nabin Chandra Kath Hazarika 2,314 6.75
    Independent Mahendra Nath Bora 840 2.45
    Independent Abhoy Charan Das 383 1.12
    Majority
    Turnout 34,292 66.07
    Registered electors
    JP gain from INC Swing

    1983

    1983 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Tezpur
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    INC Nabin Chandra Kath Hazarika 5,453 93.66
    Independent Mahammad Ali 369 6.34
    Majority
    Turnout 5,822 10.47
    Registered electors
    INC gain from JP Swing

    1985

    1985 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Tezpur
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    Independent Brindaban Goswami 33,645 59.01
    INC Naren Sarma 13,525 23.72
    Independent Sayed Ali 7,903 13.06
    Independent Sreekanth Sarma 1,758 3.08
    Independent Golam Samdani 188 0.33
    Majority
    Turnout 57,019 82.2
    Registered electors
    Independent gain from INC Swing

    1991

    1991 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Tezpur
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    INC Bijit Saikia 26,646 45.02
    NAGP Brindaban Goswami 16,115 27.23
    Independent Rupkamal Kakati 4,866 8.22
    Independent Bapdhan Koch 4,281 7.21
    AGP Dhananjay Das 2,464 416
    JD Jibon Bora 2,394 4.05
    Independent Paresh Nath 799 1.35
    Independent Aradhana Das 564 0.95
    URC Tabibhula Khan 507 0.95
    AJD Tulshinarayan Mahata 261 0.44
    Independent Miya Hussain 163 0.28
    Independent Ajit Sarma 122 0.21
    Majority
    Turnout 59,182 71.24
    Registered electors
    INC gain from Independent Swing

    1996

    1996 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Tezpur
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    AGP Brindaban Goswami 30,706 44.68
    INC Bizit Saikia 28,873 42.01
    BJP Badan Chandra Lahar 7,510 10.93
    AIIC(T) Punya Brata Goswami 1,378 2
    Independent Bijoy Bahudur Singh 263 0.38
    Majority
    Turnout 68,730 75.81
    Registered electors
    AGP gain from INC Swing

    2001

    2001 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Tezpur
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    AGP Brindaban Goswami 30,030 38.61
    INC Robindra Kumar Goswami 29.036 37.33
    Independent Bizit Salkia 16,509 21.23
    Independent Jayanta Kumar Baruah 1,077 1.38
    Samata Party Saheda Begum 381 0.49
    Independent Purna Bora 377 0.48
    Independent Biswanath Pratap Jadav 363 0.47
    Majority
    Turnout 77,773 71.17
    Registered electors
    AGP hold Swing

    2006

    2006 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Tezpur
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    AGP Brindaban Goswami 53,270
    INC Bizit Saikia 44,850
    BJP Anamika Baruah 2,721
    Asom Gana Parishad (Pragatishel) Kartik Hazarika 2,424
    Independent Mohammad Mia Hussein 1710
    Majority
    Turnout 1,04,979
    Registered electors
    AGP hold Swing

    2011

    2011 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Tezpur
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    INC Rajen Borthakur 43,738 41.27
    AGP Brindaban Goswami 22,156 20.9
    AITC Bizit Saikia 16,149 15.23
    AIUDF Manik Gogoi 10,966 10.35
    BJP Ritu Baran Sarma 9,464 8.96
    Independent Santanu Mahanta 2,360 2.23
    Nationalist Congress Party Mahendra Bhuyan 645 0.61
    Independent Mia Hussein 522 0.49
    Majority 105,991 69.77
    Turnout
    Registered electors
    INC gain from AGP Swing

    2016

    2016 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Tezpur
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    AGP Brindaban Goswami 71,170 52.55
    INC Hiranya Bhuyan 36,507 26.95
    AIUDF Sukendra Nath 22,295 16.46
    Independent Bizit Saikia 1,096 0.80
    SUCI(C) Nayan Moni Choudhury 855 0.63
    Independent Bhabananda Deka 742 0.54
    JMBP Sujit Sarma 662 0.48
    NCP Mahendra Bhuyan 569 0.42
    NOTA None of the above 1,514 1.11
    Majority 34,663 25.60
    Turnout 1,35,413 82.38
    Registered electors 1,64,376
    AGP gain from INC Swing

    2021

    2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Tezpur
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    AGP Prithiraj Rava 71 454 47.69%
    INC Dr.Anuj Kumar Mech 61,331 40.93
    AJP JanmoniBorah 8,686 5.8% New
    Independent Alok Nath 4,037 2.69 New
    SUCI(C) Nayan Moni Choudhury 916 0.61
    Independent Sheikh Mohammad Sadique 769 0.51 New
    Independent Akash Jyoti Singha 590 0.39% New
    NOTA None of the above 2,050 1.37%
    Majority 9 853
    Turnout 149,833
    Registered electors
    AGP hold Swing

    See also

    References

    1. ↑ "Tezpur Assembly constituency Election Result - Legislative Assembly constituency". resultuniversity.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.

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