Nowgong parliamentary constituency, presently referred to as Nagaon, is one of the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies that are representative of the north-eastern state of Assam in the Parliament.The Nawgong Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 10) consists of 1,411,331 number of electorates in totality, of these 726,396 are males and 684,935 are females as the Election commission of India 2009 data suggests. Situated in the Nagaon district in the central regions of Assam, this parliamentary constituency is part of the Municipal Board in the Nagaon city.The Nowgong or Nagaon parliamentary constituency houses the famous Kalang River, a tributary of the Brahmaputra in north-eastern India. In its importance as an administrative and urban set-up, the Nowgong city as part of the Nowgong parliamentary constituency, ranks fifth not only in size, but also in commercial significance in the state, after the cities of Guwahati, Silchar, Dibrugarh and Jorhat. This constituency has been a stronghold of the Bharatiya Janata Party since 1999. Nine assembly segments make up the Lok Sabha seat of Nowgong, out of which the segments of Raha and Jagiroad are reserved for candidates belonging to the scheduled caste community. The Nagaon city in Assam is well known across the country, for its exceptionally advanced literacy rates, which are unparalleled. Being one of Assam's most populated cities with a population of 1,47,231 people, the average literacy rate in Nagaon is 93.43% wherein male and female literacy rates are as high as 98.58% and 88.08% , respectively. The Nagaon district has a population of 28,26,006 as per 2011 Census data.
Nawgong 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.
LakhimpurLok Sabha Election Results 2019
| Candidate | Party | EVM Votes | Migrant Votes | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % of Votes | Status |
Pradyut Bordoloi | Indian National Congress | 738881 | 0 | 843 | 739724 | 49.53 | Winner |
Sri Rupak Sharma | Bharatiya Janata Party | 720727 | 0 | 2245 | 722972 | 48.41 | 1st Runner-up |
NOTA | None Of The Above | 10737 | 0 | 20 | 10757 | 0.72 | 2nd Runner-up |
Sahadeb Das | All India Trinamool Congress | 5860 | 0 | 15 | 5875 | 0.39 | 3rd Runner-up |
Zakir Hussain | Independent | 4311 | 0 | 4 | 4315 | 0.29 | 4th Runner-up |
Azgor Ali | Purvanchal Janta Party (Secular) | 3650 | 0 | 5 | 3655 | 0.24 | 5th Runner-up |
Saiful Islam Choudhury | Asom Jana Morcha | 3418 | 0 | 3 | 3421 | 0.23 | 6th Runner-up |
Sukanta Mazumdar | Bharatiya Gana Parishad | 2745 | 0 | 11 | 2756 | 0.18 | 7th Runner-up |
List of winner/current and runner up MPs Nawgong Parliamentary Constituency.
The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Nawgong 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 Nawgong constituency is Shri Rajen Gohain of BJP.
Year | PC No. | PC Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Vote | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Vote |
2014 | 10 | Nowgong | GEN | Rajen Gohain | M | BJP | 494146 | Jonjonali Baruah | M | INC | 350587 |
2009 | 10 | Nowgong | GEN | Gohain,Shri Rajen | M | BJP | 380921 | Anil Raja | M | INC | 335541 |
2004 | 10 | Nowgong | GEN | Rajen Gohain | M | BJP | 342704 | Bisnu Prasad | M | INC | 311292 |
1999 | 10 | Nowgong | GEN | Rajen Gohain | M | BJP | 328861 | Nripen Goswami | M | INC | 293433 |
1998 | 10 | Nowgong | GEN | Nripen Goswami | M | INC | 267448 | Rajen Gohain | M | BJP | 229664 |
1996 | 10 | Nowgong | GEN | Muhi Ram Saikia | M | AGP | 263649 | Nazneen Faruque | M | INC | 209521 |
1991 | 10 | Nowgong | GEN | Muhiram Saikia | M | AGP | 151481 | Bishnu Prasad | M | INC | 138564 |
1985 | 10 | Nowgong | GEN | Muhiram Saikia | M | IND | 229377 | Haji Abdur Rouf | M | IND | 193747 |
1977 | 10 | Nowgong | GEN | Dev Kanta Borooah | M | INC | 176605 | Indreswar Goswami | M | BLD | 122386 |
1971 | 10 | Nowgong | GEN | Liladhar Kotoki | M | INC | 132209 | Phani Bora | M | CPI | 49392 |
1967 | 10 | Nowgong | GEN | L. Keteki | M | INC | 103752 | K. Bora | M | CPI | 57086 |
1962 | 9 | Nowgong | GEN | Liladhar Kotoki | M | INC | 97942 | Sukdev Goswami | M | IND | 72967 |
1957 | 7 | Nowgong | GEN | Kataki Liladhar | M | INC | 119002
| Goswami Sukadev | M | IND | 53947 |
1951 | 7 | Nowgong | GEN | Barooah, Dev Kanta | M | INC | 79673 | Goswami Lakshmi Prasad | M | SP | 46829 |
List of Assembly Constituenciesin Nawgong Parliamentary Constituency
The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Nawgong parliamentary constituency.
Names of Assembly Constituencies |
Jagiroad (SC) | Morigaon | Laharighat |
Raha (SC) | Nagaon | Barhampur |
Jamunamukh | Hojai | Lumding |
Last Updated on June 26, 2020