Karimganj South (Assam) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Karimganj South Assembly Constituency

Karimganj South is constituency No. 4 of Assam legislative assembly. It is situated in Karimganj district and comes under the Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency. According to the Election Commission of India, this constituency has 1,44,103 registered voters. It comprises 75,329 male and 68,774 female registered voters.

The Congress won this seat in the 2011 Assembly elections. Siddeque Ahmed, the winning Congress candidate, got 45,395 votes. The nearest contender was Ekbal Hussain of Trinamool Congress who got 22,282 votes. The winning margin was 23,113, that is, 22.11% of the total valid votes. The voter turnout was 72.56 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Karimganj South Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Karimganj South assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2011	4	Karimganj South	GEN	Siddeque Ahmed	M	INC	45395	Ekbal Hussain	M	AITC	22282
2006	4	Karimganj South	GEN	Siddeque Ahmed	M	IND	29007	Sipra Goon	F	BJP	21372
2001	4	Karimganj South	GEN	Siddeque Ahmed	M	SAP	31639	Abdul Muqtadir Choudhury	M	INC	28280
1996	4	Karimganj South	GEN	Abdul Muqtadir Choudhury	M	INC	43158	Biswarup Bhattacharjee	M	BJP	30008
1991	4	Karimganj South	GEN	Pranab Kumar Nath	M	BJP	24020	Makbul Ali	M	AGP	23280
1985	4	Karimganj South	GEN	Abdul Muqtadir Choudhury	M	INC	24002	Nikhil Kanti Das	M	IND	20554
1983	4	Karimganj South	GEN	Abdul Muqtadir Choudhury	M	INC	24328	Abdul Khalique Talukdar	M	IND	19922
1978	4	Karimganj South	GEN	Abdul Muqtadir Choudhury	M	INC	19047	Nikhil Kanti Das	M	IND	12988
1972	7	Karimganj South	(SC)	Sudarsan Das	M	INC	19020	Gopesh Namasudra	M	CPI	10626
1967	7	Karimganj South	(SC)	P. Choudhury	M	INC	17559	G. Namasudra	M	IND	13992
1962	6	Karimganj South	GEN	Abdul Munim Chowdhury	M	INC	9881	Jajneswar Das	M	CPI	6914
1960	By Polls	Karimganj South	GEN	Moulvi.M.Ali	M	INC	6344	J. Das	M	COM	6142
1957	5	Karimganj South	GEN	Abdul Hamid Chowdhury	M	INC	13402	Nanigopal Swami	M	IND	11382