Constituency
75. Sootea
Community mirrorAssam · Assam Assembly Election, 2011
AS-SOOTEA
AGP 41.3%won by 11.7%CPM 29.6%
What changed here
DerivedAsom Gana Parishad held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.8% to 11.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 29.6% — it did not contest here in 2006.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.0% between them, down from 93.3% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
1,50,354
Turnout
72.6%
Valid votes
1,09,202
Margin
12,793
11.71%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AGP- 1PADMA HAZARIKAAsom Gana Parishad · AGP45,15541.3%
- 2KHEMRAJ CHETRICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM32,36229.6%
- 3HIRANYA BORAIndian National Congress · INC16,48515.1%
- 4PREM NEWARBOPF · BOPF10,6449.7%
- 5DHANESWAR BASUMATARYIndependent · IND2,1121.9%
- 6RAJESH SARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,4031.3%
- 7ARUN CHANDRA ROYIndependent · IND1,0411.0%
Since 2006
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- AGP
- Winner now
- AGP
- AGP–CPM swing
- −41.8%
- AGP share
- 53.5% → 41.3%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 29.6%
- Turnout
- — → 72.6%