Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency

Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency
Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency
Lok Sabha constituency
	Karimganj within the state of Assam
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Northeast India
State	Assam
Assembly constituencies	8
Established	1952
Total electors	11,65,997
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
	17th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Kripanath Mallah
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2019

Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam state in north-eastern India, covering Karimganj and Hailakandi districts in the Barak Valley. This constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the scheduled castes.[1]

Assembly segments

Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:[2]

No	Name	District	Member
1	Ratabari (SC)	Karimganj	Bijoy Malakar	BJP
2	Patharkandi		Krishnendu Paul	BJP
3	Karimganj North		Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha	INC
4	Karimganj South		Siddeque Ahmed	INC
5	Badarpur		Abdul Aziz	All India United Democratic Front
6	Hailakandi	Hailakandi	Zakir Hussain Laskar	All India United Democratic Front
7	Katlicherra		Suzam Uddin Laskar	All India United Democratic Front
8	Algapur		Nizam Uddin Choudhury	All India United Democratic Front

Year	Winner
1962	Nihar Ranjan Laskar	Indian National Congress
1967
1971
1977
1980		Indian National Congress (I)
1984	Sudarsan Das	Indian Congress
1991	Dwarka Nath Das	Bharatiya Janata Party
1996	Dwarka Nath Das	Bharatiya Janata Party
1998	Nepal Chandra Das	Indian National Congress
1999	Nepal Chandra Das
2004	Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya
2009	Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya
2014	Radheshyam Biswas	All India United Democratic Front
2019	Kripanath Mallah	Bharatiya Janata Party

2019 Indian general elections: Karimganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kripanath Mallah	473,046	44.62	+15.22
	AIUDF	Radheshyam Biswas	4,34,657	41.00	+0.09
	INC	Swarup Das	1,20,452	11.36	-14.18
	TMC	Chandan Das	4,870	0.46	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Probash Ch. Sarkar	1,166	0.11	-0.24
	NOTA	None of the above	6,555	0.62	+0.14
Majority			38,389	3.62	-7.89
Turnout			10,61,160	79.18	+3.11
	BJP gain from AIUDF		Swing	+3.71

2014 Indian general elections: Karimganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIUDF	Radheshyam Biswas	3,62,866	40.91	+4.17
	BJP	Krishna Das	2,60,772	29.40	+7.67
	INC	Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya	2,26,562	25.54	-12.35
	AGP	Rabindranath Choudhury	5,556	0.63	+0.63
	AAP	Tarun Kumar Das	3,658	0.41	N/A
	Independent	Sujit Mallick	3,437	0.39	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Probash Ch. Sarkar	3,114	0.35	+0.17
	Independent	Sajalendu Malakar	2,465	0.28	N/A
	Independent	Goutam Malakar	2,447	0.28	N/A
	Independent	Pradip Suklabaidya	2,392	0.27	N/A
	SP	Rinku Malakar	2,275	0.26	N/A
	Independent	Sabuj Das	1,974	0.22	N/A
	Independent	Sanjit Kumar Das	1,880	0.21	N/A
	Independent	Pintu Malakar	1,664	0.19	N/A
	Independent	Mahananda Das	1,592	0.18	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	4,266	0.48	---
Majority			102,094	11.51	+10.36
Turnout			8,87,782	76.14
	AIUDF gain from INC		Swing

2009 Indian general elections: Karimganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya	2,59,717	37.89
	AIUDF	Rajesh Mallah	2,51,797	36.73
	BJP	Sudhangshu Das	1,48,945	21.73
Majority			7,920	1.16
Turnout			6,85,420	64.13
	INC hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Karimganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya	321,059	47.81
	BJP	Parimal Suklabaidya	229,111	34.12
	AGP	Nepal Chandra Das	106,546	15.87
	Independent	Babul Ram Das	3,925	0.58
	Independent	Sushil Kumar Das	3,641	0.54
	Independent	Radha Kanta Tanty	2,862	0.43
	Independent	Lukendra Roy	2,386	0.36
	Independent	Babul Roy	1,960	0.29
Majority			91,948
Turnout			671,491	68.91
	INC hold		Swing

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