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Know your Lok Sabha constituency: Nowgong

Know your Lok Sabha constituency: Nowgong

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Know your Lok Sabha constituency: Nowgong

97 parliamentary constituencies spread over 13 States and Union Territories will go to polls in the phase-II of polling of Lok Sabha elections on April 18. The campaigning for this phase ended today.

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In Assam, five parliamentary constituencies will go to polls in this phase. Out of these constituencies, here are some details about the Nowgong constituency:

There are 7 candidates in the fray for the Nowgong Lok Sabha seat. The candidates are:

  1. Pradyut Bordoloi (INC)
  2. Rupak Sharma (BJP)
  3. Sahadeb Das (All India Trinamool Congress)
  4. Azgor Ali (Purvanchal Janata Party-Secular)
  5. Saiful Islam Choudhury (Asom Jana Morcha)
  6. Sukanta Mazumdar (Bharatiya Gana Parishad)
  7. Zakir Hussain (Independent)

Out of these 7 candidates, the major fight will be in between Congress' Pradyut Bordoloi and BJP's Rupak Sharma.

  • Total voters: 17,90,684
  • Male voters: 9,18,386
  • Female voters: 8,72,249
  • Transgender voters: 49
  • Total polling stations: 2,283

Assembly Constituencies:

  1. Jagiroad (SC)
  2. Marigaon
  3. Laharighat
  4. Raha (SC)
  5. Nowgong
  6. Barhampur
  7. Jamunamukh
  8. Hojai
  9. Lumding

Results in last five Lok Sabha elections:

  • 1998: Nripen Goswami, INC
  • 1999: Rajen Gohain, BJP
  • 2004: Rajen Gohain, BJP
  • 2009: Rajen Gohain, BJP
  • 2014: Rajen Gohain, BJP
Pradyut Bordoloi Nowgong Rupak Sharma INC BJP Rajen Gohain