Assam Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya in a group photograph with Assembly Speaker Ranjeet Kumar Dass, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Cabinet Ministers and MLAs during the second day of the first session of 16th state Legislative Assembly, in Guwahati. File
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Around 87% (110 candidates) of the winners in the recently held Assam Assembly elections won with 50% and above of the total votes polled in their constituency, while 13% (16 candidates) of those who won got less than 50% of the votes polled, according to an analysis by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).
The analysis shows that all the victorious candidates won with an average of 58.11% of total votes polled as compared to 2021, when the winners got an average of 54.08% of the votes cast.
Also 16 (76%) out of 21 winners with declared criminal cases have won with a vote share of 50% and above and 94 (90%) out of 105 winners with clean backgrounds have won with a similar vote share.
Only two winners have won with a margin of victory of less than 3,000 votes while four winners had a margin of victory more than 50%. Fourteen out of 21 winners with declared criminal cases have won against a runner-up with a clean background.
Among the women candidates, Niso Terangpi (BJP) from Diphu constituency won with the highest vote share of 62.95%. She won with 49.62% representativeness and a 34.46% margin of victory.
Out of total 63 re-elected winners, none has won with less than 40% of vote share in their respective constituencies and 54 of them (86%) have won with more than 50% of vote share.
Only two re-elected winners have won with less than 10% margin of victory whereas two have won with more than 50% margin of victory.
Of the 2,16,64,898 votes polled in 2026 Assam Assembly Elections, 2,66,962 (1.23%) were polled for NOTA.
Published – May 25, 2026 08:48 pm IST
