Katigorah Assembly constituency

Katigorah Assembly constituency is one of the 126 assembly constituencies in Cachar district in the North-East Indian state of Assam. Kalain is main town of Katigorah.^[1]
Katigorah Assembly constituency is part of Silchar Lok Sabha constituency and also the Subdivision of Cachar District.^[2]

Katigorah
Constituency No. 116 for the Assam Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Northeast India
State	Assam
District	Cachar
Lok Sabha constituency	Silchar
Established	1951
Reservation	None

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 116 Katigorah Assembly constituency is composed of Badarpur Municpal Board, Borkhola Dev. Block(Part), Kalain Dev. Block(Part), Katigorah Dev. Block(Part), Salchapra Dev. Block(Part), Algapur Dev. Block(Part).

Members of Legislative Assembly

Key

  BJP   INC   AIUDF   IC(S)   Independent

Election		Member	Party
	1951	Namwar Ali Barbhuiya	Indian National Congress
	1957	Hem Chandra Chakravarty	Indian National Congress
	1962	Tarapada Bhattacharjee	Independent (politician)
	1967	A.K.N. Hoque	Indian National Congress
	1972	Abdul Hamid Mazumder	Indian National Congress
	1978	Abdul Kiyum Choudhury	Indian National Congress
	1983	Nepal Chandra Das	Indian National Congress
	1985	Abdul Hamid Mazumder	Indian Congress (Socialist)
	1991	Kali Ranjan Deb	Bharatiya Janata Party
	1996	Kali Ranjan Deb	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2001	Kali Ranjan Deb	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2006	Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya	All India United Democratic Front
	2011	Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya	All India United Democratic Front
	2016	Amar Chand Jain	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2021	Khalil Uddin Mazumder	Indian National Congress

Election results

2016

2016 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Katigorah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Amar Chand Jain	59,764	44.03	+25.37
	AIUDF	Khalil Uddin Mazumder	50,956	37.54	+5.11
	INC	Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya	16,418	12.09	−14.33
	Independent	Trayabashi Das	1,949	1.43	N/A
	CPI	Moinul Hoque	1,372	1.01	N/A
	Independent	Samujjal Das	906	0.66	N/A
	Independent	Hanif Alom Mazarbhuiya	826	0.60	N/A
	SP	Alauddin Choudhury	552	0.40	−0.44
	Independent	Saleh Ahmad Talukdar	541	0.39	N/A
	Independent	Arun Karmakar	425	0.31	N/A
	Independent	Rafique Uzzaman Laskar	356	0.26	N/A
	Independent	Mahendra Sinha	284	0.20	N/A
	JCP	Sujata Sinha	273	0.20	N/A
	Independent	Dipak Lal Das	184	0.13	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	906	0.66	N/A
Majority			8,808	6.49	+0.50
Turnout			1,35,712	84.50	+9.46
Registered electors			1,60,603
	BJP gain from AIUDF		Swing

2011

2011 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Katigorah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIUDF	Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya	33,226	32.41
	INC	Anwarul Haque	27,084	26.42
	BJP	Anil Chandra Dey	19,133	18.66
	Independent	Amar Chand Jain	12,808	12.49
	AGP	Anup Kumar Dutta	3,892	3.80
	AITC	Kumarjit Deb	2,148	2.10
	Independent	Sahab Uddin	1,880	1.83
	Independent	Ashit Chandra Dey	1,501	1.46
	SP	Alak Sen	857	0.84
Majority			6,142	5.99
Turnout			1,02,529	75.04
	AIUDF hold		Swing

See also

• Katigorah
• List of constituencies of Assam Legislative Assembly