The Left Front retained its bastion Tripura and ruling Naga Peoples Front (NPF) won absolute majority in the 60-member Nagaland Assembly securing 31 seats.
Meanwhile, the Congress retained power in Meghalaya after emerging as the single largest party, bagging 29 seats, 2 short of an absolute majority, in the Assembly election results that were declared today.
Tripura
The Left Front in Tripura today secured absolute majority with CPI(M) bagging 30 seats and CPI
one in the 60-member Assembly. It secured absolute majority by winning 31 seats in the 60-member
Assembly (CPI-M 30 and CPI-1) and leading in 16 other seats while it is headed
for a two thirds majority.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar won the Dhanpur Assembly seat defeating his nearest Congress rival Shah Alam by 6,017 votes.
Prominent winners of the Left Front are Jail Minister Manindra Reang, Finance
Minister Badal Chowdhury, Agriculture Minister Aghore Debbarma and Industries
Minister Jitendra Chowdhury.
The Congress has won five seats, but its allies INPT and NCT have failed to open
their accounts.
Among Congress candidates, former speaker who switched over to the Congress from
the CPI(M) Jitendra Sarkar won from Barjala, Leader of the Opposition Ratan Lal
Nath from Mohanpur and Dilip Sarkar from Badarghat.
Tripura election results:
| PARTY |
LEADS |
WINS |
L+W |
| CPI(M) |
0
|
49
|
49
|
| CPI |
0
|
1
|
1
|
| INC |
0
|
10
|
10
|
| Others |
0
|
0
|
0
|
Nagaland
Naga Peoples Front returned to power in Nagaland today to form the
government for the third consecutive time winning absolute majority by
securing 37 of the total 60 seats.
The state party bettered its tally in the 12th Nagaland assembly by two
seats against 35 it won last time. It had contested in all the seats.
Chief Minister Neiphu Rio won from Northern Angami-II by 12,671 votes over his
nearest Congress rival Kevise Sogotsu.
Speaker Kiyanilie Peseyie won from Western Angami defeating Congress rival Asu
Keyho by 1000 votes.NPCC president, S I Jamir won from the Dimapur-II defeating
Independent Savi Liegise by 1615 votes.
Nagaland election results:
| PARTY |
LEADS |
WINS |
L+W |
| NCP |
0
|
4
|
4
|
| NPF |
0
|
37
|
37
|
| INC |
0
|
8
|
8
|
| Others |
0
|
10
|
10
|
Meghalaya
The Congress retained power in Meghalaya after emerging as the single
largest party, bagging 29 seats, 2 short of an absolute majority, in the
Assembly election results that were declared today.
In the 2008 Assembly election, the Congress had bagged 25 seats.
But NPP managed to bag only two seats, saving itself from the ignominy
of getting wiped off the scene in the Garo Hills region, once considered
the bastion of the former Lok Sabha Speaker.
The NCP on the other hand won two seats with its incumbent deputy
speaker Sanbor Shullai retaining his urban South Shillong constituency.
The United Democratic Party, which was the key ally of the Congress for
the past three years in the Meghalaya United Alliance coalition
government, could retain eight out of 11 seats it won in 2008.
Among Congress winners are cabinet minister H D R Lyngdoh and Prestone Tynsong.
Both retained their seats.
Former alliance partners UDP won eight seats and the HSPDP three
Meghalaya election results:
| PARTY |
LEADS |
WINS |
L+W |
| INC |
0
|
29
|
29
|
| UDP |
0
|
8
|
8
|
| NCP |
0
|
2
|
2
|
| Others |
0
|
21
|
21
|
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