Rupohihat Constituency- Population, Polling Percentage, Facilities, Parties Manifesto, Last Election Results

Rupahi is a township and a mini urban area under the Nagaon district/region, Assam. The official languages of Rupahi are Bodo, Assamese, Bengali. Its postal code is 782125.

Rupahihat Assembly Constituency: Name & Number

The name of Rupahi Constituency is Rupohihat Assembly Constituency and its constituency No. is 85. It forms a part of Kaliabor Lok Sabha Parliamentary Constituency.

Parliamentary Constituency :

The Parliamentary Constituencies in India is 542 and among them, the seats for the general category are 441 and for SC and ST the seats are 84 and 47 respectively. Nagaon Assembly Constituency is a part of the Nowgong Lok Sabha Parliamentary Constitution. Nagaon is the 9 assembly segments of Nowgong Parliament Seat. It is reserved for General category.

District :

Rupahi is a township under Nagaon region, Assam, India. Nagaon district is an authoritative district. Its headquarter is at Nagaon. To the Northern region of Nagaon, the mighty Brahmaputra and Sonitpur district is located while towards South there is Karbi Anglong region and the beautiful hills of North Cachar and towards the East there are Golaghat and East Karbi Anglong. 

No. of Towns:

The nearest town to Rupahi is Dimaruguri, and the distance between these places is about 7.6KM. Besides this, other towns which are nearest to Rupahi are Nagaon, Tezpur and Dhing with a distance/length of 9.3KM, 25.2KM and 25.3KM respectively.

No. of. Inhabited Villages:

Rupahi, a mini urban area in Assam in the Nagaon district has over 64 number of the villages. 

Assembly Status :

In the Assembly Election of 2016 Rupohihat constituency had 167685 electors. Amongst them, the overall valid voters was 152895. In the 2016 Assembly Election, INC candidate Nurul Huda won the MLA seat, with 72627 votes and became MLA, whereas AIUDF candidate Nurul Amin Chowdhury was the runner-up with 50783 votes. Therefore he lost the MLA seat by 21844 votes.

Total Population :

According to the Census Record of 2011, Rupahi region has around 228,206 people. 

No. of Households :

Rupahi region comprises 43,717 houses/families in the district/region.

Water Connection :

Rupahi, a mini urban area under Nagaon region has 1,716 houses to which it provides primary necessities like proper sewerage and good water facilities. In Nagaon district, about 80.44% of the houses have access to safe drinking water regardless of the distance/length to the sources. While the major sources of water used by the maximum number of the houses are tube wells, hand pumps, etc.

Street Light :

The access to the street light and the no. of households using electricity in the rural/urban areas shows the welfare development of the region. In accordance with the village overview, it is noted that throughout the years there are improvements in the access to electricity to every household in Nagaon region.

Municipality Reach:

Rupahi Block comes under the Nagaon Municipality Board. The Board is taking care of the basic civic infrastructure and necessities.

Demography in the constituency :

More than half of the communities residing in the constituency are Hindus, Muslims and Christians, where the percentage share is about 8%, 91.79% and 0.12%, respectively. While less than half of the residents residing in the constituency are Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and people from other religions. Here's the table given below:

Castes & Tribes in the Constituency:

Rupahi Block has inhabitants of around 228,206 peoples, among them about 4.3% of the residents are Scheduled Caste. While, Scheduled Tribes constitute about 0.8% and the remaining amount of percentage share are the General Category.

Top 3 cities under the Constituency:

There are no cities in the Rupohihat constituency. The top 3 towns are Dimaruguri, Nagaon and Tezpur. And the distance/length of the top 3 towns from Rupahi is about 7.6 km, 9.3 km and 25.2 km respectively.

Male/Female Electoral Distribution :

Rupahi Constituency has around 135934 registered votes. It comprises 69589 males and 66345 females.

Sex Ratio :

In accordance to Census Record 2011, the sex ratio of Rupahi Block/Circle is 9651females per 1000 males.

Age Group Distribution:

In Rupohihat Assembly Constituency about 20% population is under six years of age.

Polling Percentage of Last Three Years :

The Rupohihat Assembly Constituency witnessed a polling percentage of 84.48% during Lok Sabha/ Parliamentary elections 2019. During the Assembly election of Assam 2016, it saw about 47.5% of polling percentage.

Result of last five elections :

• In the 1996 Assembly Election of Assam, Rashidul Haque of INC had won the Assembly seat with 33430 votes.
• In the 2001 Assembly Election of Assam, Sarifa Begum of INC won the MLA election with 37745 votes and became the MLA.
• In the 2006 Assembly Election of Assam, Abdul Aziz of AGP won the assembly seat with 32988 votes.
• In the year 2011 election, Mazibur Rahman of AIUDF won the MLA seat with 44441 votes.
• In the 2016 Assembly Election, INC candidate, Nurul Huda won the MLA election against Mazibur Rahman with 72627. Now Nurul Huda is the current MLA of Rupohihat Constituency.

Here's the table below for detailed information :

Political Parties Percentage Vote Share Previous Election:

In the Assembly Election of Assam 2016, Nurul Huda of INC emerged as a winner of the MLA seat by securing 47.5% of votes. Nurul Amin Chowdhury of AIUDF was the runner up with 33.21% of votes. The third position was secured by Jakaria Haque Choudhury of BJP with 10.44% of votes. While the fourth position was secured by Abdul Aziz an Independent candidate with only 6.33% of votes. And the last position was secured by Abu Hanifa of JNCP with only 0.67% of votes. The table provided below clearly shows the percentage share of votes by the political parties in the last 2016 Assam Assembly Election :

Participant Candidate in Last Election & Result (Winner & Loser):

The candidate who contested in the Assembly Election of Assam 2016 is Nurul Huda of INC, Nurul Amin Chowdhury of AIUDF, Jakarta Haque Choudhury of BJP, Abdul Aziz of IND, Abu Hanifa of JNCP. The winner of the Assembly Election of Assam 2016 was Nurul Huda of INC with 72627 votes whereas in last position, a candidate from JNCP, Abu Hanifa secured only 1019 votes.

Here's the below table: