About Digboi Assembly Constituency
Digboi is constituency No. 123 of Assam legislative assembly. It is situated in Tinsukia district and comes under Dibrugarh Lok Sabha constituency. It is an unreserved constituency. According to the Election Commission of India, this constituency has 1,12,637 registered voters. It comprises 57,742 male and 54,895 female registered voters.
In the 2011 Assembly elections, the Congress beat BJP by 10,758 votes to win this seat. Rameswar Dhanowar, the winning Congress candidate, got 38,663 votes. The runner-up was BJP candidate Suren Phukan who got 27,905 votes. The voter turnout was 68.66 %.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Digboi Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Digboi assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender |
Party | Votes | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Votes |
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| 2021 | 123 | Digboi | GEN | Suren Phukan | M | BJP | 59217 | Sibanath Chetia | M | INC | 32241 |
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| 2016 | 123 | Digboi | GEN | Suren Phukan | M | BJP | 49167 | Gautam Dhanowar | M | INC | 34874 |
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| 2011 | 123 | Digboi | GEN | Rameswar Dhanowar | M | INC | 38663 | Suren Phukan | M | BJP | 27905 |
| 2006 | 123 | Digboi | GEN | Rameswar Dhanowar | M | INC | 35773 | Suren Phukan | M | AGP | 23038 |
| 2001 | 123 | Digboi | GEN | Rameswar Dhanowar | M | INC | 35418 | Bhaben Sharma | M | BJP | 17764 |
| 1996 | 123 | Digboi | GEN | Rameswar Dhanowar | M | INC | 34234 | Munin Borah | M | CPI | 7265 |
| 1991 | 123 | Digboi | GEN | Rameswar Dhanowar | M | INC | 33799 | Lila Bora | M | AGP | 11054 |
| 1985 | 123 | Digboi | GEN | Rameswar Dhanowar | M | INC | 27438 | Dayanand Dowera | M | IND | 12330 |
| 1983 | 123 | Digboi | GEN | Rameswar Dhanowar | M | INC | 6530 | Tupidhar Gogoi | M | CPM | 1887 |
| 1978 | 123 | Digboi | GEN | Rameswar Dhanowar | M | INC(I) | 10312 | Niranjan Biswas | M | JNP | 10245 |
| 1972 | 124 | Digboi | GEN | Chandra Bahadur Chetri | M | INC | 15620 | Bari Choudhury | M | CPI | 9534 |
| 1967 | 124 | Digboi | GEN | J.N. Bhuyan | M | INC | 8351 | N. Biswas | M | BJS | 6322 |
| 1962 | 103 | Digboi | GEN | Dwijesh Chandra Deb Sarma | M | INC | 12417 | Mohanlal Mukherjee | M | CPI | 5437 |
| 1957 | 92 | Digboi | GEN | Dwijesh Chandra Deb Sarma | M | INC | 10899 | Binoy Chakravarty | M | CPI | 3057 |
| 1951 | 94 | Digboi | GEN | Dalbir Singh Lohar | M | INC | 14397 | Anandi Bhusan Rai | M | IND | 4567 |
| 1951 | 94 | Digboi | GEN | Jadav Chandra Khakhlari | M | INC | 18121 | Daulat Gohain | M | IND | 4151 |
Last Updated on August 05, 2021