About Ratabari Assembly Constituency
Ratabari is constituency No. 1 of Assam legislative assembly. It is situated in Karimganj district. It comes under the Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency. The Ratabari assembly seat is reserved for scheduled castes (SC). According to the Election Commission of India, Ratabari has 1,38,020 registered voters. It comprises 72,442 male and 65,578 female registered voters.
The Congress won this seat in the 2011 assembly elections. Kripanath Mallah, the winning Congress candidate, bagged 33,043 votes. The nearest contender was Nikhil Suklabaidya of BJP who got 20,614 votes. The wining margin was 12,429, that is, 14.98% of the total valid votes. The voter turnout was 60.13 %.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Ratabari Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Ratabari 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 | 1 | Ratabari | (SC) | Bijoy Malakar | M | BJP | 84711 | Sambhu Singh mallah | M | INC | 48490 |
| 2016 | 1 | Ratabari | (SC) | Kripanath Mallah | M | BJP | 53975 | Akhil Rajan Talukdar | M | INC | 29449 |
| 2011 | 1 | Ratabari | (SC) | Kripanath Mallah | M | INC | 33043 | Nikhil Suklabaidya | M | BJP | 20614 |
| 2006 | 1 | Ratabari | (SC) | Sambhu Sing Mallah | M | BJP | 33555 | Matilal Ray | M | AUDF | 22263 |
| 2003 | By Polls | Ratabari | (SC) | Kripanath Mallah | M | INC | 49104 | Sambhusing Mallah | M | BJP | 17934 |
| 2001 | 1 | Ratabari | (SC) | Rathish Ranjan Choudhury | M | IND | 22322 | Sambhu Sing Mallah | M | BJP | 20809 |
| 1996 | 1 | Ratabari | (SC) | Sambhusing Mallah | M | BJP | 23463 | Rathish Ranjan Choudhury | M | CPM | 22563 |
| 1991 | 1 | Ratabari | (SC) | Ram Payare Rabidas | M | BJP | 27478 | Rathish Ranjan Choudhury | M | CPM | 18178 |
| 1985 | 1 | Ratabari | (SC) | Kumari Rabidas | F | INC | 28802 | Kamdeb Das | M | CPM | 20763 |
| 1983 | 1 | Ratabari | (SC) | Subal Chandra Das | M | INC | 16654 | Kamdeb Das | M | CPM | 13731 |
| 1978 | 1 | Ratabari | (SC) | Lilamoy Das | M | JNP | 14403 | Ram Deb Malah | M | IND | 11512 |
| 1972 | 4 | Ratabari | GEN | Suranjan Nandy | M | INC | 13930 | Ramdes Malah | M | IND | 12659 |
| 1967 | 4 | Ratabari | GEN | B. Upadhya | M | INC | 21817 | M.M. Modkherjee | M | IND | 9858 |
| 1962 | 4 | Ratabari | GEN | Baidyanath Mookerjee | M | INC | 13403 | Biswanath Upadhyaya | M | PSP | 12081 |
Last Updated on August 07, 2021