Silchar Lok Sabha constituency

Silchar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam state in north-eastern India. From 1951 to 1971, the area under it was referred as Cachar constituency. The constituency covers the entirety of Cachar district in the Barak Valley.

Silchar AS-8
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Silchar Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Northeast India
State	Assam
Assembly constituencies	8
Established	1952
Total electors	1,060,175
Reservation	SC
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Parimal Suklabaidya
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2024

Assembly segments

Silchar Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:^[1]

Current assembly segments

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Party	MLA	2024 Lead
114	Lakhipur	None	Cachar				BJP
115	Udharbond						BJP
116	Katigorah						BJP
117	Barkhola						BJP
118	Silchar						BJP
119	Sonai						INC
120	Dholai	SC					BJP

Previous assembly segments

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Party	MLA
9	Silchar	None	Cachar	BJP	Dipayan Chakraborty
10	Sonai	None	Cachar	AIUDF	Karim Uddin Barbhuiya
11	Dholai	SC	Cachar	BJP	Nihar Ranjan Das
12	Udharbond	None	Cachar	BJP	Mihir Kanti Shome
13	Lakhipur	None	Cachar	BJP	Kaushik Rai
14	Barkhola	None	Cachar	INC	Misbahul Islam Laskar
15	Katigorah	None	Cachar	INC	Khalil Uddin Mazumder

Members of Parliament

Year	Winner[2]	Party
1952	Nibaran Chandra Laskar		Indian National Congress
1952	Suresh Chandra Deb
1957	Nibaran Chandra Laskar
1962	Jyotsna Chanda
1967
1971
1974	Nurul Huda		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1977	Rashida Haque Choudhury		Indian National Congress
1980	Santosh Mohan Dev
1984
1989	Elections not held in Assam
1991	Kabindra Purkayastha		Bharatiya Janata Party
1996	Santosh Mohan Dev		Indian National Congress
1998	Kabindra Purkayastha		Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Santosh Mohan Dev		Indian National Congress
2004
2009	Kabindra Purkayastha		Bharatiya Janata Party
2014	Sushmita Dev		Indian National Congress
2019	Dr. Rajdeep Roy		Bharatiya Janata Party
2024	Parimal Suklabaidya

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Silchar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Parimal Suklabaidya	652,405	59.88	7.29
	INC	Suryakanta Sarkar	3,88,094	35.62	8.37
	AITC	Radheshyam Biswas	20,493	1.88	1.51
	NOTA	None of the Above	12,700	1.16	0.26
Majority			2,64,311	24.26	20.07
Turnout			10,90,948	79.37
	BJP hold		Swing

Lok Sabha elections 2019

2019 Indian general elections:^[3] Silchar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dr. Rajdeep Roy	499,414	52.59	+14.93
	INC	Sushmita Dev	417,818	43.99	+1.92
	NOTA	None of the Above	8,547	0.90	+0.36
	AITC	Hitabrata Roy	3,514	0.37
Majority			81,596	8.60	+4.19
Turnout			950,690	79.51	+4.06
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	+6.50

General elections 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Silchar^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sushmita Dev	336,451	42.07	+13.42
	BJP	Kabindra Purkayastha	3,01,210	37.66	+2.29
	AIUDF	Kutub Ahmed Mazumder	85,530	10.69	−18.66
	NOTA	None of the above	4,310	0.54	−−−
Majority			35,241	4.41	1.61
Turnout			8,00,058	75.46
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

Lok Sabha elections 1971

• Jyotsna Chanda (INC) : 100,798 votes^[5]
• A. F. Golam Osmani (IND) : 37,794

Lok Sabha elections 1952

• Two candidates elected from this constituency, then called 'Cachar Lushal Hill'.
• Member One : Laskar, Nibaran Chandra (INC) : 192847 votes, defeated Ghose, Satyendra Kishore (KMPP) : 84160 votes
• Member Two : Deb, Suresh Chandra (INC) : 182,692 votes, defeated Patni, Nitai Chand (KMPP) : 71,704 votes

See also

• 2019 Indian general election in Assam
• Cachar district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha