Salmara South (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Salmara South (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is one of the 126 assembly constituencies of Assam a north east state of India. Salmara is also part of Dhubri Lok Sabha constituency.^[1]^[2]

Member of Legislative Assembly

1978: Dewan Joynal Abedin, Independent
1983: Mohammad Bazlul Basit, Indian National Congress
1985: Dewan Joynal Abedin, Independent
1991: Dewan Joynal Abedin, Independent
1996: Wazed Ali Choudhury, Indian National Congress
2001: Wazed Ali Choudhury, Indian National Congress
2006: Badruddin Ajmal, All India United Democratic Front
2009 (by elections): Wazed Ali Choudhury, Indian National Congress
2011: Abdur Rahman Ajmal, All India United Democratic Front
2016: Wazed Ali Choudhury, Indian National Congress

Election results

2016 results

Assam Legislative Assembly election, 2016: Salmara South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	Wazed Ali Choudhary	80,066	54.43	+6.93
	AIUDF	Badruddin Ajmal	63,343	43.06	-7.49
	BJP	Shiraj Hussain	1,954	1.32	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Dewan Joynal Abedin	1,153	0.78	-0.52
	NOTA	None of the above	581	0.39	N/A
Majority			16,723	11.37	+8.32
Turnout			1,47,097	93.67	+6.11
Registered electors			1,57,525
	INC gain from AIUDF		Swing	-0.28

2011 results

Assam Legislative Assembly election, 2011: Salmara South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AIUDF	Abdur Rahman Ajmal	62,254	50.55
	INC	Wazed Ali Choudhury	58,498	47.50
	SUCI(C)	Dewan Joynal Abedin	1,600	1.30
	Trinamool Congress	Masidul Haque	794	0.64
Majority			3,756	3.05
Turnout			1,23,146	87.56
Registered electors			1,40,642
	AIUDF gain from INC		Swing

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/25/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.