Know your Lok Sabha constituency: Mangaldoi

Five Assam parliamentary constituencies will go to polls in the phase-II on April 18. Out of these constituencies, here are some details about the Mangaldoi constituency:

In Mangaldoi, there are 11 candidates in the fray for the seat.

The candidates are:

1. Dilip Saikia (BJP)
2. Bhubaneswar Kalita (INC)
3. Sudhendu Mohan Talukdar (All India Trinamool Congress)
4. Ainul Haque (Asom Jana Morcha)
5. Gandheshwar Mochahari (Voters Party International)
6. Biren Basak (Bharatiya Gana Parishad)
7. Mani Ram Basumatary (Hindusthan Nirman Dal)
8. Swarnalata Chaliha (Socialist Unity Centre of India-Communist)
9. Kazi Nekib Ahmed (Independent)
10. Jayanta Kumar Kalita (Independent)
11. Prodeep Kumar Daimary (Independent)

Out of these candidates, the major fight will be in between Congress' Bhubaneswar Kalita and BJP's Dilip Saikia.

• Total voters: 17,95,529
• Male voters: 9,20,977
• Female voters: 8,74,520
• Transgender voters: 32
• Total polling stations: 2,353

Assembly Constituencies:

1. Kamalpur
2. Rangiya
3. Nalbari
4. Paneri (ST)
5. Kalaigaon
6. Sipajhar
7. Mangaldoi (SC)
8. Dalgaon
9. Udalguri (ST)
10. Majbat

Results in last five Lok Sabha elections:

• 1998: Madhab Rajbangshi, INC
• 1999: Madhab Rajbangshi, INC
• 2004: Narayan Chandra Borkataky, BJP
• 2009: Ramen Deka, BJP
• 2014: Ramen Deka, BJP

(Data collected from http://ceoassam.nic.in/)