Assam| Barpeta Lok Sabha constituency: Key facts, past winners, and 2019 election results

Guwahati: The Barpeta Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam. The date of voting for the Barpeta Lok Sabha Constituency Election 2024 is 7 May (Phase 3) announced by the Election Commission of India in March.

Barpeta Lok Sabha constituency literacy rate is 56.3 per cent.

According to the Election Commission of India (ECI), the total electorate counts in the Silchar Lok Sabha Constituency stood at 19,49,873, with 9,88.570 male voters, and 9,61,303 female voters.

The Barpeta parliamentary constituency comprises ten Assembly segments, namely Abhayapuri, Bongaigaon, Bhowanipur–Sorbhog, Barpeta, Pakabetbari, Bajali, Hajo–Sualkuchi, Barkhetri, Nalbari and Tihu.

This is a seat from where BJP has not been able to win even once. In the last 15 to 20 years the competition has been mostly between the Congress party and the AIUDF.

Until 2019, Congress won here 11 times.

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, the fifth President of India, contested and won from Barpeta on a Congress ticket consecutively between 1967 and 1971.

He served as the President of India from 1974 to 1977.

Winners of Barpeta Lok Sabha Constituency in 2019

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Congress Abdul Khaleq won this seat with 645,173 votes. AGPs Kumar Deepak Das was second with 504,866 votes and AIUDF candidate Rafiqul Islam was third with 248,667 votes.

For the first time, AIUDF opened its account on this Congress stronghold. In the 16th Lok Sabha election, AIUDF candidate Sirajuddin Ajmal defeated BJP candidate Chandramohan Patowary by 42,341 votes.

Sirajuddin received 394,702 votes. BJP candidate Chandramohan, who came second, got a total of 352,361 votes.

Congress candidate Ismail Hussain, who came third, received a total of 277,802 votes.

Past Winners of Barpeta Lok Sabha Constituency

Abdul Khaleque (Congress): 2019

Sirajuddin Ajmal (AIUDF): 2014

Ismail Hussain (AIUDF): 2009

A.F. Golam Osmani (Congress): 2004

A.F. Golam Osmani (Congress): 1999

A.F. Golam Osmani (Congress): 1998

Uddhab Barman (CPIM): 1996

Uddhab Barman (CPIM): 1991

Ismail Hossain Khan (Congress): 1980

Ismail Hossain Khan (Congress): 1977

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (Congress): 1971

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (Congress): 1967

Renuka Devi Barkataki (Congress): 1962

Beli Ram Das (Congress): 1952