Gauhati Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update

A Parliamentary seat alternating between the Congress party and the BJP, the Gauhati Lok Sabha constituency belongs to the north-eastern state of Assam and is one of the 14 seats that represent this exotic state in the country. 1,723,860 is the total electorate count in the Gauhati Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 7). Out of these 890,882 number of electorates are males and the remaining 832,978 are belong to the female category as the Election commission of India 2009 reports suggest. Comprising the Gauhati Municipal area, this parliamentary constituency houses the state's capital Dispur.

The Gauhati parliamentary constituency covers the entire district called the Kamrup Metropolitan district, whose administrative headquarters is the city of Guwahati. Lying between the foothills of the Shillong Plateau and the banks of the river Brahmaputra, the city of Guwahati or Gauhati is an ancient urban area in the state, renowned for its rich cultural heritage.

With a population of 9,63,429 of the Guwahati city, as per provisional reports of Census India 2011 is 963,429; this parliamentary constituency is the primary educational, cultural, commercial and political entry point not only to Assam, but to the whole north-eastern region. While the population of the Kamrup district is 15,84,342.10 assembly constituencies constitute the parliamentary seat of Gauhati, out of which Dudhnoi and Boko are reserved for candidates belonging to the marginalized sections of the society.

Gauhati Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

In 2009 Election Results the UPA won around 261 out of 543 seats, and in the second position was NDA with 158 seats, while 23 seats were won by Left parties.

In 2014 Election Results the BJP won 282 seats out of 543 seats. This took the NDA tally to 336 seats out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. INC could only manage to win 44 seats and stayed in the second position while AIADMK party from Tamil Nadu came third with 37 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.

In 2019, the BJP is set to return to power at the Centre after a sweeping win in the 2019 Lok Sabha election , armed with a bigger mandate than in the 2014 General Election. The party - led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah duo has secured 303 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the Congress, the main Opposition party, managed to increase its vote share from 2014 only by a handful of votes, with a final tally of 52 seats. There will be no Leader of Opposition in the upcoming Lower House for a second consecutive term.

List of winner/current and runner up MPs Gauhati Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Gauhati parliamentary constituency of all the years from the starting until now . It also shows the number of votes secured by each MP and the name of the political party they belong to. The current sitting member of parliament of the Gauhati constituency is Smt. Bijoya Chakravarty of BJP.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	7	Gauhati	GEN	Smt. Bijoya Chakraborty	F	BJP	764985	Manash Borah	M	INC	449201
2009	7	Gauhati	GEN	Chakravarty,Smt. Bijoya	F	BJP	496047	Capt. Robin Bordoloi	M	INC	484192
2004	7	Gauhati	GEN	Kirip Chaliha	M	INC	353250	Bhupen Hazarika	M	BJP	292099
1999	7	Gauhati	GEN	Bijoya Chakravarty	F	BJP	384771	Bhubaneswar Kalita	M	INC	309533
1998	7	Gauhati	GEN	Bhubaneswar Kalita	M	INC	285482	Manoranjan Goswami	M	BJP	157309
1996	7	Gauhati	GEN	Prabin Chandra Sarmah	M	AGP	372833	Bhubaneswar Kalita	M	INC	258436
1991	7	Gauhati	GEN	Kirip Chaliha	M	INC	169628	Asfaf Ali	M	NAGP	124823
1985	7	Gauhati	GEN	Dinesh Goswami	M	IND	428013	Bhagaban Lahkar	M	INC	124507
1977	7	Gauhati	GEN	Renuka Devi Barktaki	F	BLD	149255	Dinesh Chandra Goswami	M	INC	112815
1971	7	Gauhati	GEN	Dinesh Chandra Goswami	M	INC	140483	Dhireswar Kalita	M	CPI	44482
1967	7	Gauhati	GEN	D. Kalita	M	CPI	90208	R. D. Barkataki	M	INC	88658
1962	6	Gauhati	GEN	Hem Borua	M	PSP	133812	Tirtha Nath Sarmah	M	INC	101750
1957	5	Gauhati	GEN	Barua Hem	M	PSP	143497	Devendra Nath Sarma	M	INC	96624
1956	By Polls	Gauhati	GEN	D.N. Sarma	M	INC	45057	Hem Barua	M	PSP	29112
1951	5	Gauhati	GEN	Rohini Kumar Chaudhury	M	INC	96122	Lakshya Dhar Chaudhury	M	SP	72553

List of Assembly Constituenciesin Gauhati Parliamentary Constituency

The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Gauhati parliamentary constituency.

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Dudhnoi (ST)	Boko (SC)	Chhaygaon
Palasbari	Jalukbari	Dispur
Guwahati East	Guwahati West	Hajo
Barkhetri