Katigorah Assembly constituency

Katigorah
Katigorah
Constituency No. 116 for the Assam Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Northeast India
State	Assam
District	Cachar
Lok Sabha constituency	Silchar
Established	1951
Reservation	None

Katigorah Assembly constituency is one of the 126 assembly constituencies in Cachar district in the North-East Indian state of Assam. Kalain is main town of Katigorah.^[1]
Katigorah Assembly constituency is part of Silchar Lok Sabha constituency and also the Subdivision of Cachar District.^[2]

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 116 Katigorah Assembly constituency is composed of Badarpur Municpal Board, Borkhola Dev. Block(Part), Kalain Dev. Block(Part), Katigorah Dev. Block(Part), Salchapra Dev. Block(Part), Algapur Dev. Block(Part).

Members of Legislative Assembly

Key

BJP INC AIUDF IC(S) Independent

	Member	Party
1951	Namwar Ali Barbhuiya	Indian National Congress
1957	Hem Chandra Chakravarty	Indian National Congress
1962	Tarapada Bhattacharjee	Independent (politician)
1967	A.K.N. Hoque	Indian National Congress
1972	Abdul Hamid Mazumder	Indian National Congress
1978	Abdul Kiyum Choudhury	Indian National Congress
1983	Nepal Chandra Das	Indian National Congress
1985	Abdul Hamid Mazumder	Indian Congress (Socialist)
1991	Kali Ranjan Deb	Bharatiya Janata Party
1996	Kali Ranjan Deb	Bharatiya Janata Party
2001	Kali Ranjan Deb	Bharatiya Janata Party
2006	Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya	All India United Democratic Front
2011	Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya	All India United Democratic Front
2016	Amar Chand Jain	Bharatiya Janata Party
2021	Khalil Uddin Mazumder	Indian National Congress

Election results

2016

2016 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Katigorah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Amar Chand Jain	59,764	44.03	+25.37
	AIUDF	Khalil Uddin Mazumder	50,956	37.54	+5.11
	INC	Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya	16,418	12.09	−14.33
	Independent	Trayabashi Das	1,949	1.43	N/A
	CPI	Moinul Hoque	1,372	1.01	N/A
	Independent	Samujjal Das	906	0.66	N/A
	Independent	Hanif Alom Mazarbhuiya	826	0.60	N/A
	SP	Alauddin Choudhury	552	0.40	−0.44
	Independent	Saleh Ahmad Talukdar	541	0.39	N/A
	Independent	Arun Karmakar	425	0.31	N/A
	Independent	Rafique Uzzaman Laskar	356	0.26	N/A
	Independent	Mahendra Sinha	284	0.20	N/A
	JCP	Sujata Sinha	273	0.20	N/A
	Independent	Dipak Lal Das	184	0.13	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	906	0.66	N/A
Majority			8,808	6.49	+0.50
Turnout			1,35,712	84.50	+9.46
Registered electors			1,60,603
	BJP gain from AIUDF		Swing

2011

2011 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Katigorah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AIUDF	Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya	33,226	32.41
	INC	Anwarul Haque	27,084	26.42
	BJP	Anil Chandra Dey	19,133	18.66
	Independent	Amar Chand Jain	12,808	12.49
	AGP	Anup Kumar Dutta	3,892	3.80
	AITC	Kumarjit Deb	2,148	2.10
	Independent	Sahab Uddin	1,880	1.83
	Independent	Ashit Chandra Dey	1,501	1.46
	SP	Alak Sen	857	0.84
Majority			6,142	5.99
Turnout			1,02,529	75.04
	AIUDF hold		Swing

References

^ "Assam General Legislative Election 2016". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
^ "Delimitation of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies of State of Assam" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 28 November 2025.

External links

"Results of all Assam Assembly elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

[election2016-1] "Assam General Legislative Election 2016". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 November 2021.

[2] "Delimitation of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies of State of Assam" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 28 November 2025.

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