Dhemaji by Election 2017 Date

Poll Events	Schedule
Date of Notification	14.03.2017 (TUE)
last Date of Making Nomination	21.03.2017 (TUE)
Scrutiny of Nominations	22.03.2017 (WED)
Withdrawal of Candidature	24.03.2017 (FRI)
Date of Poll	09.04.2017 (SUN)
Date of Counting	13.04.2017 (THU)
Date of Completion	15.04.2017 (SAT)

About Dhemaji Assembly Constituency

Dhemaji is constituency No. 113 of Assam legislative assembly. It is situated in Dhemaji district and comes under Lakhimpur Lok Sabha constituency. This assembly seat is reserved for scheduled tribes (ST).

According to the Election Commission of India, Dhemaji has 1,86,281 registered voters. It comprises 94,881 male and 91,400 female registered voters.

In the 2011 assembly elections, the Congress won this seat by a margin of 7,285 votes. Sumitra Doley Patir, the winning Congress candidate, got 59,633 votes. The runner-up was Paramananda Sonowal of AGP. Sonowal got 52,348 votes. The voter turnout was 75.08 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Dhemaji Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2016	113	Dhemaji	(ST)	Pradan Baruah	M	BJP	69592	Sumitra Doley Patir	F	INC	50471
2011	113	Dhemaji	(ST)	Sumitra Doley Patir	F	INC	59633	Paramananda Sonowal	M	AGP	52348
2006	113	Dhemaji	(ST)	Sumitra Patir	F	INC	44960	Paramananda Sonowal	M	AGP	35841
2001	113	Dhemaji	(ST)	Dilip Kumar Saikia	M	AGP	31166	Sumitra Patir	F	INC	30685
1996	113	Dhemaji	(ST)	Dilip Kumar Saikia	M	AGP	36315	Porna Kanta Pegu	M	INC	25076
1991	113	Dhemaji	(ST)	Dilip Kumar Saikia	M	AGP	23730	Durgeswar Patir	M	INC	15719
1985	113	Dhemaji	(ST)	Dilip Kumar Saikia	M	IND	38862	Purna Kanta Pegu	M	INC	9579
1983	113	Dhemaji	(ST)	Durgeswar Patir	M	INC	237	Basanta Doley	M	PTC	70
1978	113	Dhemaji	(ST)	Purna Chandra Bora	M	IND	12608	Upendra Nath Panging	M	CPM	11804
1972	115	Dhemaji	(ST)	Romesh Mohon Kuli	M	SWA	21663	Lali Kumar Doley	M	INC	18789
1967	115	Dhemaji	(ST)	R.M. Kuli	M	SWA	7291	L.K. Doley	M	INC	7017