2019 Indian general election in Assam

The 2019 Indian general election held in India between April and May 2019 to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha. The elections could be held at an earlier date if the Council of Ministers recommends dissolution of the 16th Lok Sabha to the President of India. However, the government has publicly announced that the elections will be held according to schedule.^[3]

2019 Indian general election in Assam

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14 seats
Turnout	81.60% (1.48%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Sarbananda Sonowal Tarun Gogoi Badruddin Ajmal Party BJP INC AIUDF Alliance NDA UPA - Leader since 2018 2018 2005 Leader's seat did not contest did not contest Dhubri Last election 7 seats 3 seats 3 seats Seats won 9[1] 3[2] 1 Seat change 2 2 Popular vote 64,17,519 63,08,928 13,88,534 Percentage 36.05% 35.44% 7.80% Swing 0.45% 5.84% 7%
Assam

Election schedule

Poll event	Phase
	I	II	III
Notification Date	18 March	19 March	28 March
Last Date for filing nomination	25 March	26 March	4 April
Scrutiny of nomination	26 March	27 March	5 April
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination	28 March	29 March	8 April
Date of poll	11 April	18 April	23 April
Date of counting of votes/Result	23 May 2019
No. of constituencies	5	5	4

Parties and Alliances

  National Democratic Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Bharatiya Janata Party			Sarbananda Sonowal	10
	Asom Gana Parishad			Prafulla Kumar Mahanta	3
	Bodoland People's Front			Hagrama Mohilary	1

  United Progressive Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Indian National Congress			Tarun Gogoi	14

Others

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	All India United Democratic Front			Badruddin Ajmal	3

Candidates

No	Constituency	Candidates
		NDA   BJP (10)   AGP (3)   BPF (1)		UPA   INC (14)		AIUDF(3)
1	Karimganj		Kripanath Mallah		Swarup Das		Radheshyam Biswas
2	Silchar		Rajdeep Roy		Sushmita Dev	DNF
3	Autonomous District		Horen Sing Bey		Biren Singh Engti	DNF
4	Dhubri		Zabed Islam		Abu Taher Ali Bepari		Badruddin Ajmal
5	Kokrajhar		Pramila Rani Brahma		Sabda Ram Rabha	DNF
6	Barpeta		Kumar Deepak Das		Abdul Khaleque		Haji Rafiqul Islam
7	Gauhati		Queen Oja		Bobbeeta Sharma	DNF
8	Mangaldoi		Dilip Saikia		Bhubaneswar Kalita	DNF
9	Tezpur		Pallab Lochan Das		MGVK Bhanu	DNF
10	Nowgong		Rupak Sharma		Pradyut Bordoloi	DNF
11	Kaliabor		Mani Madhav Mahanta		Gaurav Gogoi	DNF
12	Jorhat		Topon Kumar Gogoi		Sushanta Borgohain	DNF
13	Dibrugarh		Rameswar Teli		Paban Singh Ghatowar	DNF
14	Lakhimpur		Pradan Baruah		Anil Borgohain	DNF

Opinion polls

Date published	Polling agency				Lead
		NDA	UPA	AIUDF
Jan 2019	C Voter[citation needed]	6	7	1	1

Date published	Polling agency				Others	Lead
		NDA	UPA	AIUDF
Jan 2019	C Voter[citation needed]	44.3%	44.6%	2.5%	8.6%	0.3%

Party wise results

Alliance/Party				Seats			Popular vote
				Contested	Won	+/−	Votes	%	±pp
	NDA		BJP	10	9	2	64,84,596	36.41%	0.09
			AGP	3	0		14,80,697	8.31%	4.51
			BPF	1	0		4,46,774	2.5%	0.29
		Total		14	9	2	84,12,067	46.78%	-
	UPA		INC	14	3		63,73,659	35.79%	6.19
-	-		AIUDF	3	1	2	14,02,088	7.87%	6.93
-	-		IND	45	1		4,84,560	4.3	5.32

Seat Share

1. NDA (64%)
2. UPA (22%)
3. AIUDF (7%)
4. IND (7%)

Vote Share

1. NDA (46.76%)
2. UPA (35.44%)
3. AIUDF (7.8%)
4. AITC (0.41%)
5. CPM (0.23%)
6. CPI (0.17%)
7. Others (9.19%)

Constituenties wise result

#	Constituency	Turnout	Candidate	Party		Votes	Runner Up	Party		Votes	Margin
1	Karimganj	79.18	Kripanath Mallah		Bharatiya Janata Party	4,73,046	Radheshyam Biswas		All India United Democratic Front	4,34,357	38,389
2	Silchar	79.51	Rajdeep Roy			4,99,414	Sushmita Dev		Indian National Congress	4,17,818	81,596
3	Autonomous District	77.63	Horen Singh Bey			3,81,316	Biren Singh Engti			1,41,690	2,39,626
4	Dhubri	90.66	Badruddin Ajmal		All India United Democratic Front	7,18,764	Abu Taher Bepari			4,92,506	2,26,258
5	Kokrajhar	83.30	Naba Kumar Sarania		Independent politician	4,84,560	Pramila Rani Brahma		Bodoland People's Front	4,46,744	37,786
6	Barpeta	86.57	Abdul Khaleque		Indian National Congress	6,45,173	Kumar Deepak Das		Asom Gana Parishad	5,04,866	1,40,307
7	Gauhati	80.87	Queen Oja		Bharatiya Janata Party	10,08,936	Bobbeeta Sarma		Indian National Congress	6,63,330	3,45,606
8	Mangaldoi	83.68	Dilip Saikia			7,35,469	Bhubaneshwar Kalita			5,96,924	1,38,545
9	Tezpur	79.48	Pallab Lochan Das			6,84,166	M.G.V.K Bhanu			4,41,325	2,42,841
10	Nowgong	83.23	Pradyut Bordoloi		Indian National Congress	7,39,724	Rupak Sharma		Bharatiya Janata Party	7,22,972	16,752
11	Kaliabor	82.09	Gourav Gogoi			7,86,092	Moni Madhab Mahanta		Asom Gana Parishad	5,76,098	2,09,994
12	Jorhat	77.57	Topon Kumar Gogoi		Bharatiya Janata Party	5,43,288	Sushanta Borgohain		Indian National Congress	4,60,635	82,653
13	Dibrugarh	77.30	Rameswar Teli			6,59,583	Paban Singh Ghatowar			2,95,017	3,64,566
14	Lakhimpur	75.17	Pradan Baruah			7,76,406	Anil Borgohain			4,25,855	3,50,551

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2021 election)
	Bharatiya Janata Party	67	64
	Asom Gana Parishad	11	9
	Bodoland People's Front	4	4
	Indian National Congress	26	25
	All India United Democratic Front	12	16
	Independents	6	8
Total		126

See also

• 2018 Assam Panchayat Election
• 2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election