Assam Election 2022: Sootea Assembly Seat
Assam Election: Sootea Assembly Constituency 2022
Sootea is one of the 126 Assam Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Sonitpur district. Assam Assembly Election 2021 for Sootea was held on March 27 and the result was declared on May 2.
In Assam Assembly Election 2016, there were 1,58,765 registered voters for Sootea assembly seat, out of which 82,668 were male and 76,097 were female voters. 1.2% of voters opted for for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In 2016, 6 candidates were contesting for Sootea assembly constituency seat. Sootea was one of 60 seats won by the Indian National Congress. It was a close contest with Bharatiya Janta Party's Padma Hazarika winning the election upstaging Indian National Congress's Praneswar Basumatary by a margin of just 1,818 votes.
91.8% of votes were split between top 2 candidates. Bharatiya Janta Party's Padma Hazarika secured a total of 60,440 votes, while Indian National Congress's Praneswar Basumatary got 58,622 votes. Independent candidate Khemraj Chetry grabbed 4,914 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 46.6%, 45.2% and 3.8% respectively.
In Assam Assembly election 2011, Asom Gana Parisad's Padma Hazarika defeated Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)'s Khemraj Chetri by 12,793 votes.
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