2014 Lok Sabha Election Assam To Have 3-Phase Polling On April 07,12 and 24,2014

 The Election Commission of India(ECI)have announced on Wednesday March 05,2014 a 9-phase polling for the 16th Lok Sabha Election scheduled to be held between April 07 -May 12,2014

The Election Commission of India(ECI)have announced on Wed March 05,2014 that Assam to have 3-Phase Polling on April 07,09 and 24,2014 for the 14 Lok Sabha Constituencies

 

2014 Lok Sabha Election  Phase 1-Key Dates

• Issue of Notification -March 14
• Last Date for Filing Nominations -March 21
• Scrutiny of Nominations-March 22
• Last Date For Withdrawal of Candidature -March 24
• Polling Date -April 07
• Counting of Votes -May 16,2014

2009 Results

PARTY	No. of Votes	% of Votes	Seats Won
INC	4235681	34.89%	7
BJP	1967813	16.21%	4
AGP	1773103	14.6%	1
BOPF	656430	5.41%	1
AUDF	1954901	16.1%	1

The highest number of women candidates, since the first general elections, are contesting the three phased 2014 Lok Sabha polls in Assam with 16 candidates in the fray, five more than the 2009 Parliamentary elections

Women Contestant from 1952 -2009

• In the first General Elections of 1952, none of the two contesting candidates won the polls.

• It was only in 1957 that both the contesting women candidates won the polls while in 1962, two of  the three contesting candidates managed to make it to Parliament.

• In 1967 and 1971, only one candidate could make it in each of the polls while in 1977, two women won the elections.

• There were no women candidates in 1980, 1984 and 1989

• In 1991, none of seven contesting candidates could manage to win.

• In 1996 and 1999, nine candidates contested each of the polls with only one and two women winning the respective polls

• In 2004, four candidates were in fray but none managed to win. 

• In 2009, 11 women candidates contested the polls with only two winning

 Women Contestants in 2014

• 5  women candidates contested in the first phase on April 7,2014 and 2 in the second phase on April 12, 2014 and 9 are in fray in the third and final phase of polls in the state on April 24,2014

• Among the 16 candidates are two sitting MPs - BJP's Bijoya Chakravorty from Gauhati and Union Tribal Affairs Minister Ranee Narah of Congress from Lakhimpur - both being nominated by the party from the same constituency again.

• The Congress has put up three candidates, the BJP and AGP one each, Aam Aadmi Party three, All India Trinamool Congress and SUCI (Communist) two each, CPI-ML(L) and Samajwadi Party one each and two Independents

• Nagaon has the highest number of three women candidates in the fray which include Congress's Jonjonali Baruah, AGP's Mridula Barkakoty and Independent Selima Khatun.

Phase 1 Election Monday April 07,2014 -2 States and 6 Constituencies

• Assam - Tejpur, Kaliabor, Jorhat, Dibrugarh and Lakhimpur - 5 seats
• Tripura -Tripura West Constituency - 1 seat

Voting begins at 7 A. M on  Monday April 7,2014 in India, the world's largest democratic exercise has begun at 6 Lok Sabha seats in two Northeastern states.

The voting which has started at 7 o'clock will end at 6 o'clock in the evening. 

Voters in 5 Parliamentary seats in Assam and 1 in Tripura are exercising their democratic rights to elect members for the 16th Lok Sabha after the formation of which there will be a new government and the Prime Minister.

A total of 76,69,551 voters in Tejpur, Kaliabor, Jorhat, Dibrugarh and Lakhimpur in Assam and Tripura West in Tripura are eligible to exercise their franchise.

While the 5 seats of Assam have 64,21,004 voters - Tejpur, Kaliabor, Jorhat, Dibrugarh and Lakhimpur

Of these 5 seats in Assam that goes to polls today, in the 2009 general election the Congress won 4 seats — Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Kaliabor — while the AGP which contested the election in alliance with the BJP bagged the Tezpur seat.
In 2009 the AGP and the BJP had pre-poll alliance under which the AGP contested in Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur, Kaliabor and Tezpur while the BJP contested only in Jorhat.

A woman casts her vote at Boginadi polling station during the first phase of the Lok Sabha election in Lakhimpur district of Assam

Voters wait in line in Dibrugarh,Assam

Election officials work inside a polling stating in Dibrugarh.

A polling station at Dekhijuli, around 110 miles from Guwahati, the capital of Assam

A polling  in Koliabor,Assam

Muslim voters pose with identification as they wait in line to vote outside a polling station in Koliabor

A total of 51 Candidates for the 5 seats in Assam  are in fray

Assam	Dibrugarh	07-04-2014	Anup Phukon	AGP	56	Female	Post Graduate	GEN	4,737,100	0
Assam	Dibrugarh	07-04-2014	Cheni Ram Moran	AIFB	48	Female	10th	GEN	824,337	0
Assam	Dibrugarh	07-04-2014	Navajyoti Kalita	AITC	36	Female	10th	GEN	25,004,000	0
Assam	Dibrugarh	07-04-2014	Paban Singh Ghatowar	INC	62	Female	Graduate	GEN	49,229,437	0
Assam	Dibrugarh	07-04-2014	Rameshwar Teli	BJP	43	Female	10th	GEN	977,943	0
Assam	Dibrugarh	07-04-2014	Subhas Sen	CPI(ML)L	64	Female	12th	GEN	7,032,268	0
Assam	Jorhat	07-04-2014	Bijoy Krishna Handique	INC	82	Female	Post Graduate	GEN	43,378,685	0
Assam	Jorhat	07-04-2014	Drupad Borgohain	CPI	68	Female	Graduate	GEN	1,479,690	0
Assam	Jorhat	07-04-2014	Gunin Basumatari	SP	62	Female	Graduate Professional	GEN	10,322,068	0
Assam	Jorhat	07-04-2014	Horen Borgohain	AIFB	37	Female	Post Graduate	GEN	3,260,000	0
Assam	Jorhat	07-04-2014	Kamakhya Prasad Tasa	BJP	38	Female	Post Graduate	GEN	1,694,785	0
Assam	Jorhat	07-04-2014	Manorom Gogoi	AAP	44	Female	Post Graduate	GEN	6,659,665	0
Assam	Jorhat	07-04-2014	Nasir Ahmed	AIUDF	52	Female	Graduate	GEN	1,830,000	0
Assam	Jorhat	07-04-2014	Prodip Hazarika	AGP	61	Female	Post Graduate	GEN	6,989,852	0
Assam	Jorhat	07-04-2014	Rajkumar Dowarah	IND	43	Female	Graduate	GEN	487,600	0
Assam	Jorhat	07-04-2014	Ribulaya Gogoi	AITC	32	Female	10th	GEN	1,383,171	0
Assam	Kaliabor	07-04-2014	Arup Kumar Mahanta	CPI(ML)L	43	Female	Graduate	GEN	458,613	0
Assam	Kaliabor	07-04-2014	Bijoy Kr. Tiru	AIUDF	63	Female	Graduate	GEN	5,238,298	0
Assam	Kaliabor	07-04-2014	Binod Gogoi	IND	43	Female	Graduate	GEN	3,600,000	0
Assam	Kaliabor	07-04-2014	Dr. Arun Kr. Sarmah	AGP	57	Female	Doctorate	GEN	19,515,691	0
Assam	Kaliabor	07-04-2014	Gourav Gogoi	INC	31	Female	Post Graduate	GEN	5,473,199	0
Assam	Kaliabor	07-04-2014	Jinti Gogoi	AAP	39	Female	Graduate	GEN	42,000	0
Assam	Kaliabor	07-04-2014	Jiten Gogoi	IND	52	Female	8th	GEN	14,407,099	1
Assam	Kaliabor	07-04-2014	Mantu Saikia	IND	34	Female	10th	GEN	5,575,521	0
Assam	Kaliabor	07-04-2014	Mithual Kumar	AIFB	41	Female	8th	GEN	1,630,000	0
Assam	Kaliabor	07-04-2014	Mrinal Kumar Saikia	BJP	46	Female	Post Graduate	GEN	3,360,000	0
Assam	Kaliabor	07-04-2014	Rahmat Ullah	IND	30	Female	Graduate Professional	GEN	255,300	0
Assam	Kaliabor	07-04-2014	Sahaba Ahmed	IND	39	Female	Graduate Professional	GEN	10,104,000	0
Assam	Kaliabor	07-04-2014	Samsul Alam	AITC	32	Female	Graduate	GEN	605,000	0
Assam	Lakhimpur	07-04-2014	David Horo	IND	36	Female	10th	GEN	94,000	0
Assam	Lakhimpur	07-04-2014	Dhebor Gohain Boruah	AITC	57	Female	Graduate Professional	GEN	7,878,597	0
Assam	Lakhimpur	07-04-2014	Hariprasad Dihingia	AGP	44	Female	10th	GEN	80,659,606	2
Assam	Lakhimpur	07-04-2014	Hem Kanta Miri	SUCI(C)	32	Female	Graduate Professional	GEN	69,500	0
Assam	Lakhimpur	07-04-2014	Hiramoni Deka Sonowal	AAP	34	Female	Doctorate	GEN	192,000	0
Assam	Lakhimpur	07-04-2014	Hrishikesh Baruah	IND	27	Female	Post Graduate	GEN	9,000	0
Assam	Lakhimpur	07-04-2014	Keshab Gogoi	IND	45	Female	Graduate	GEN	858,000	0
Assam	Lakhimpur	07-04-2014	Khairul Islam	IND	38	Female	10th	GEN	413,129	0
Assam	Lakhimpur	07-04-2014	Mamun Imdadul Haque Chawdhury	AIUDF	34	Female	Post Graduate	GEN	567,483	0
Assam	Lakhimpur	07-04-2014	Ranee Narah	INC	50	Female	Graduate	GEN	88,519,819	0
Assam	Lakhimpur	07-04-2014	Ranjit Singh Gorh	IND	45	Female	Graduate	GEN	4,611,700	0
Assam	Lakhimpur	07-04-2014	Sarbananda Sonowal	BJP	52	Female	Graduate Professional	GEN	14,497,515	0
Assam	Lakhimpur	07-04-2014	Tanish Orang	CPI(ML)L	45	Female	8th	GEN	295,642	0
Assam	Tezpur	07-04-2014	Bhupen Kumar Borah	INC	43	Female	Post Graduate	GEN	26,084,515	0
Assam	Tezpur	07-04-2014	Elias Kujur	IND	42	Female	Graduate Professional	GEN	502,074	0
Assam	Tezpur	07-04-2014	Gopi Chand Shahabadi	AITC	69	Female	Graduate	GEN	20,624,119	0
Assam	Tezpur	07-04-2014	Joseph Toppo	AGP	65	Female	10th	GEN	3,289,490	0
Assam	Tezpur	07-04-2014	Khem Raj Chetry	CPI(M)	55	Female	12th	GEN	300,100	0
Assam	Tezpur	07-04-2014	Lakshi Kanta Kurmi	CPI(ML)L	36	Female	8th	GEN	106,200	0
Assam	Tezpur	07-04-2014	Moni Kumar Subba	IND	56	Female	8th	GEN	3,067,535,137	2
Assam	Tezpur	07-04-2014	Rajen Saikia	AIFB	54	Female	10th	GEN	1,318,447	0
Assam	Tezpur	07-04-2014	Ram Prasad Sharma	BJP	58	Female	Graduate Professional	GEN	6,655,300	0

With 6.5 lakh first time voters registered this time, long queues were seen in front of the polling booths.
Most of the early morning voters were women who said they wanted to cast their ballot before they get busy in household chores for the day.

A high turnout of 85 % was recorded for one Lok Sabha seat in Tripura, while Assam registered 76 % in 5 seats in the first phase of the elections, which began peacefully on Monday April 07,2014

In Assam, 76 % of the electorate cast their votes with a large number of EVMs malfunctioning and a re-poll being considered in some places.

Tezpur recorded 75 per cent voting, Jorhat 76 %, Lakhimpur 76% Dibrugarh 70% and Kaliabor 80 %

In Assam, prominent among the 51 candidates are Union ministers and Congress nominees Paban Singh Ghatowar (Dibrugarh) and Ranee Narah (Lakhimpur), besides former union minister and sitting Congress MP Bijoy Krishna Handique (Jorhat).
Others were Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's son Gaurav Gogoi (Kaliabor), Congress rebel and Independent candidate Moni Kumar Subba and BJP state unit president Sabananda Sonowal (Lakhimpur).
In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections in the state, the Congress won seven of the 14 seats, its alliance partner BPF one, BJP four and AIUDF one.

2014 Lok Sabha Election Phase 4 April 12,2014 -Assam 3 Seats
Assam is set to hold the 2nd of the 3-phased Lok Sabha polls in the backdrop of a bandh in Autonomous District (ST), one of the 3 constituencies -Karimganj(SC),Silchar and Autonomous District (ST)

In Phase 1 election on April 07,2014 Assam goes to poll in 5 constituencies -Tezpur, Koliabor, Jorhat, Dibrugarh and Lakhimpur
Polling will be held in the Autonomous District (ST), comprising Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao districts, Karimganj (SC) and Silchar - the last two being in the Barak valley.

An electorate of 29,26,762, including 15,26,082 males, 14,00,594 and 86 others, will exercise their franchise in 3,698 polling booths in the three constituencies.

The contest in Karimganj (SC) and Silchar is triangular between the Congress, BJP and AIUDF, while in the Autonomous District (ST) it would be direct between the Congress and the BJP.

In Karimganj (SC)there are 15 candidates but the contest is between the two-time sitting Congress MP Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya, BJP's Krishna Das and AIUDF's Radheyshyam Biswas.

In Silchar, sitting BJP MP and former Union minister Kabindra Purkayastha is locked in a battle with Congress candidate Sushmita Dev, who is also the Silchar MLA and daughter of former Union Minister Santosh Mohan Dev, and AIUDF's Kutubuddin Ahmed Mazumdar.

In the Autonomous District (ST), the contest is directly between 4-time sitting Congress MP Biren Singh Engti and BJP's Joyram Engleng.
According to reports, the Congress candidate Biren Singh Ingti who has been representing the Autonomous District seat in Lok Sabha since 1971 is facing stiff challenge from the BJP candidate Joyram Engleng in this election.
Independent candidate Chomang Kro who is supported by Hill State Demand Committee (HSDC) hopes to capitalize on anti-Congress and anti-BJP votes to sail through

Of the 37 candidates in fray in the three seats, three each belong to the Congress and BJP, two each to AGP, AIUDF, AAP, SUCI (Communist) and Samajwadi Party, one each to CPI(M), CPI-ML(L), Trinamool Congress, Shiv Sena and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha.
The remaining 19 are independents.

Candidates Details

Assam	Autonomous District	12-04-2014	Ashweng J. Rengma	JMM	56	Male	10th	GEN	960,000	0
Assam	Autonomous District	12-04-2014	Biren Singh Engti	INC	74	Male	Post Graduate	GEN	35,367,390	0
Assam	Autonomous District	12-04-2014	Chomang Kro	IND	48	Male	Graduate	GEN	4,122,196	0
Assam	Autonomous District	12-04-2014	Joy Ram Engleng	BJP	54	Male	10th	GEN	22,032,158	0
Assam	Autonomous District	12-04-2014	Pratima Engheepi	CPI(ML)L	39	Female	Graduate	GEN	469,165	0
Assam	Karimganj	12-04-2014	Goutam Malakar	IND	30	Male	8th	GEN	242,000	0
Assam	Karimganj	12-04-2014	Krishna Das	BJP	45	Male	12th	GEN	2,794,334	0
Assam	Karimganj	12-04-2014	Lalit Mohon Suklabaidya	INC	72	Male	Post Graduate	GEN	11,328,972	2
Assam	Karimganj	12-04-2014	Mohananda Das	IND	50	Male	10th	GEN	600,000	0
Assam	Karimganj	12-04-2014	Pintu Malakar	IND	43	Male	12th	GEN	440,000	0
Assam	Karimganj	12-04-2014	Pradip Suklabaidya	IND	35	Male	8th	GEN	299,847	0
Assam	Karimganj	12-04-2014	Probash Chandra Sarkar	SUCI(C)	41	Male	10th	GEN	30,000	0
Assam	Karimganj	12-04-2014	Rabindra Nath Choudhury	AGP	74	Male	Graduate Professional	GEN	15,546,810	0
Assam	Karimganj	12-04-2014	Radheshyam Biswas	AIUDF	59	Male	12th	GEN	7,068,281	0
Assam	Karimganj	12-04-2014	Rinku Malakar	SP	39	Male	8th	GEN	533,500	0
Assam	Karimganj	12-04-2014	Sabuj Das	IND	39	Male	10th	GEN	332,000	0
Assam	Karimganj	12-04-2014	Sajalendu Malakar	IND	39	Male	10th	GEN	417,000	0
Assam	Karimganj	12-04-2014	Sanjit Kumar Das	IND	39	Male	10th	GEN	640,607	0
Assam	Karimganj	12-04-2014	Sujit Mallick	IND	40	Male	10th	GEN	200,042	0
Assam	Karimganj	12-04-2014	Tarun Kumar Das	AAP	61	Male	10th	GEN	391,000	0
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Abdul Mannan Barbhuiya	AAP	56	Male	Graduate	GEN	1,042,000	0
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Arunangshu Bhattacharjee	SUCI(C)	55	Male	Post Graduate	GEN	873,605	0
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Bijoy Krishna Nath	AGP	70	Male	Graduate	GEN	11,038,641	0
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Jayanta Mallick	IND	44	Male	Graduate	GEN	777,174	1
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Kabindra Purkayastha	BJP	82	Male	Post Graduate	GEN	6,236,945	0
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Kamal Das	IND	39	Male	5th	GEN	900,802	0
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Kutub Ahmed Mazumder	AIUDF	74	Male	Graduate	GEN	1,249,603	0
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Madhu Sudhan Das	IND	48	Male	12th	GEN	72,053	0
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Nilu Mandol	SHS	38	Male	8th	GEN	283,000	0
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Nirupam Mandal	IND	31	Male	Graduate Professional	GEN	25,500	0
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Rashid Ahmed Laskar	SP	28	Male	12th	GEN	785,000	0
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Rejamond Ali Barbhuiya	CPI(M)	52	Male	Graduate Professional	GEN	1,164,212	0
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Shuvadip Datta	IND	48	Male	12th	GEN	6,123,000	0
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Sukamal Das	IND	28	Male	8th	GEN	25,000	0
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Sushmita Dev	INC	41	Female	Post Graduate	GEN	87,495,844	1
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Upendra Chandra Das	IND	44	Male	8th	GEN	695,001	0
Assam	Silchar	12-04-2014	Wazid Reja Osmani	AITC	35	Male	Doctorate	GEN	7,384,788	0

2014 Lok Sabha Election Phase 6 April 24,2014 - Assam 6 Seats

At a recent rally in Dhubri, the westernmost district in lower Assam, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said: "The BJP repealed the IMDT Act. Still I have not thrown out one single individual during my tenure as chief minister."

The statement had two factual errors. First, the Supreme Court had declared the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act as unconstitutional in 2005 following a battle by then AASU leader Sarbananda Sonowal (now the state BJP president).
Second, by the Assam government's admission, 134 of the 5,652 illegal immigrants detected were deported to Bangladesh between 2010 and 2012. 
As Assam enters the final phase of the election on April 24, this was a desperate attempt by Gogoi to woo Muslims in Dhubri and Barpeta.
With Muslims living in fear, the Congress is finding it tough to stop supporters of the community siding with the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF).
With over 75 % Muslim population, Dhubri is considered AIUDF chief Maulana Badruddin Ajmal's fortress.
In 2012, AIUDF's stock among Muslims rose following the riots in the Bodoland. The Gogoi government was at that time accused of bias towards ally Bodoland People's Front.
However, in Barpeta, the battle has become multi-cornered. While AIUDF did not contest in 2009, sitting Congress MP Ismail Hussain had defeated his AGP rival Bhupen Rai by a slender margin.
This time, AIUDF has fielded Badruddin's brother Sirajuddin. Former AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowary, now a BJP candidate, and AGP's Phani Bhusan Choudhury are also contesting in Barpeta.
Though the Bodo-dominated Kokrajhar remained a BPF stronghold, its popularity has dipped, especially among non- Bodo communities.
The Guwahati constituency will see a three-cornered fight among sitting BJP MP Bijoya Chakravarty, Congress' Manas Bora and AGP's Birendra Prasad Baishya.
Bora, son of state minister Akon Bora, was the first Congress candidate to be selected through primaries. While Chakravarty hopes to ride on the Modi wave, Baishya is expected to give a tough challenge.
Nagaon seems to have been swept up by the Modi wave, giving an edge to sitting BJP MP Rajen Gohain. The Mangaldoi constituency is a prestige issue for Himanta Biswa Sarma as the Congress high command decided to field his nominee Kirip Chaliha despite strong opposition from Gogoi.
Despite a significant Muslim population, the AIUDF has fielded an unknown Hindu candidate, Paresh Baishya, reportedly to help Sarma.