Gauhati East (Assam) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Gauhati East Assembly Constituency

Gauhati East is constituency No. 53 of Assam legislative assembly. It is situated in Kamrup Metropolitan district and comes under Gauhati Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency. According to the Election Commission of India, this constituency has 2,25,828 registered voters. It comprises 1,19,086 male and 1,06,742 female registered voters.

In the 2011 Assembly elections, the Congress defeated BJP by a margin of 3,997 votes to clinch this seat. Robin Bordoloi, the winning candidate, got 47,727 votes. BJP candidate Siddhartha Bhattacharya emerged the runner-up with 43,730 votes. The voter turnout was 56.45 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Gauhati East Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2011	53	Gauhati East	GEN	Capt. Robin Bordoloi.	M	INC	47727	Siddhartha Bhattacharya.	M	BJP	43730
2006	53	Gauhati East	GEN	Captain Robin Bordoloi	M	INC	33837	Ramen Deka	M	BJP	31686
2001	53	Gauhati East	GEN	Pankaj Bora	M	INC	47713	Biraj Kumar Sarma	M	AGP	31766
1996	53	Gauhati East	GEN	Biraj Kumar Sarma	M	AGP	39694	Naren Sarma	M	INC	23093
1991	53	Gauhati East	GEN	Chitta Ranjan Patowari	M	INC	18123	Pankaj Bora	M	ICS(SCS)	9668
1985	53	Gauhati East	GEN	Biraj Kumar Sarma	M	IND	45941	Phani Sarma	M	INC	27040
1983	53	Gauhati East	GEN	Munin Sarmah	M	INC	687	Dhruba Narayan Barua	M	ICS	363
1978	53	Gauhati East	GEN	Ajoy Kumar Dutta	M	JNP	14702	Nandeswar Talukdar	M	CPM	12203
1972	58	Gauhati East	GEN	Atul Chandrasaikia	M	INC	13840	Dhireswar Kalika	M	CPI	6596
1967	58	Gauhati East	GEN	M.M. Choudhury	M	INC	15056	N. Talukdar	M	CPM	7335