In Tripura Assembly Election 2023, Barjala constituency (AC No. 4) in West Tripura district voted on February 16. Tripura, which has over 28.13 lakh registered voters, reported a voter turnout of nearly 90 per cent amid reports of six minor violent incidents.
The state had registered 90 per cent polling even in 2018 when BJP and its ally, the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT), dislodged the 25-year-long left government led by the CPI(M).
The term of the 60-member Legislative Assembly of Tripura is scheduled to end on March 22, 2023.
Barjala is one of the 35 Assembly seats won by the BJP in 2018 elections.
Use the map below to check winner and the winning party of the Barjala constituency in the Tripura election 2023. You can also check the winning margin and details of runner-up party and candidate.
In Tripura election 2018, BJP candidate Dilip Kumar Das won Barjala Assembly constituency seat after securing 22052 votes. The BJP candidate defeated CPM candidate Jhumu Sarkar by a margin of 6227 votes.
In the last elections, the BJP ended the Left's two-decade-old rule but the difference in their respective vote shares was just a little over one per cent. The BJP alone secured 43.59 per cent vote share as opposed to CPI(M), which received 42.22 per cent votes. BJP's ally IPFT got eight seats with seven per cent votes.
In 2018, Barjala constituency had 42358 electors, including 21752 males and 20605 females.
The Barjala assembly constituency saw a voter turnout of 55.109% in 2018, according to Election Commission of India.