Sonai Assembly constituency

Vidhan Sabha constituency

Sonai Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 119 for the Assam Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Northeast India
State	Assam
District	Cachar
LS constituency	Silchar
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Assam Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Karim Uddin Barbhuiya (saju)
Party	All India United Democratic Front
Alliance	None
Elected year	2021

Sonai Assembly constituency is one of the 126 state legislative assembly constituencies in Assam state in North Eastern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Silchar Lok Sabha constituency. Sonai

Overview^[1]

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No.10 Sonai Assembly constituency is composed of the following:Sonai thana [excluding circle Nos. 32 (Part), 65, 66, Boaligrant in circle No. 54 (Part) and Hill Punjee and forest villages] and circle Nos. 28 to 31 and 35 in Silchar thana and circle No. 58 (Part) in Dholai thana in Silchar sub-division.

Members of the Legislative Assembley

1951: Nanda Kishore Sinha, Indian National Congress
1957: Nanda Kishore Sinha, Indian National Congress
1962: Pulakeshi Singh, Indian National Congress
1967: M. M. Choudhury, Indian National Congress
1972: Nurul Haque Choudhury, Indian National Congress
1978: Altaf Hossain Mazumdar, Janata Party
1980: Nurul Haque Choudhury, Indian National Congress
1985: Abdul Rob Laskar, Indian National Congress
1991: Badrinarayan Singh, Bharatiya Janata Party
1996: Anwar Hussain Laskar, Asom Gana Parishad
2001: Anwar Hussain Laskar, Samajwadi Party
2006: Kutub Ahmed Mazumder, Indian National Congress
2011: Anamul Haque Laskar, Indian National Congress
2016: Aminul Haque Laskar, Bharatiya Janata Party
2021: Karim Uddin Barbhuiya, All India United Democratic Front

Election results

2021

2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election: Sonai
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIUDF	Karim Uddin Barbhuiya	71,937	48.83	+22.78
	BJP	Aminul Haque Laskar	52,283	35.49	-0.34
	Independent	Asish Halder	14,500	9.84
	AITC	M.Shanti Kumar Singha	2,796	1.9	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	1231	0.84
	SP	Anwar Hussain Laskar	469	0.32
	SUCI(C)	Anjan Kumar Chanda	244	0.17
Majority			19,654
Turnout			1,47,344	79.88
	AIUDF gain from BJP		Swing

2016^[2]

Assam Legislative Assembly Election, 2016: Sonai
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Aminul Haque Laskar	44,236	35.89
	INC	Anamul Haque	36,683	29.76
	AIUDF	Karim Uddin Barbhuiya	32,109	26.05
	Independent	Ibungobi Singha	2,987	2.42
	Independent	Anwar Hussain Laskar	2,408	1.95
	Independent	Sanjib Kumar Das	943	0.77
	Independent	Santosh Das	598	0.49
	Independent	Rejaul Islam Barbhuiya	579	0.47
	LJP	Pranesh Nath	522	0.42
	SP	Manindra Chandra Das	401	0.33
	Independent	Jawaharlal Goala	401	0.33
	Independent	Maksus Ahmed Laskar	306	0.25
	NOTA	None of the Above	1292	1.05
Majority			7,553	6.13
Turnout			1,23,261	77.98
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

References

^ "DELIMITATION OF PARLIAMENTARY AND ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES ORDER, 2008" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
^ "Sonai (Assam) Election Results 2016". elections.in. Retrieved 1 July 2016.