Lumding, a municipal town and Assembly Constituency falls under the Nowgong Lok Sabha constituency. According to the 2011 census, Lumding has a total of 31347 population. The official language of the place is Bengali and festivals like Durga Puja, Janmashtmi, Van Mahotsav, Sitala puja and many more festivals are celebrated there.
Lumding town has numerous educational institutions. There are schools and colleges, and a few of them are: BMB high school, National Higher Secondary School, East Lumding school, Lumding College and Gyandeep Jr. college and there are also coaching centres for competitive exams of UPSC, medical, banks etc. Haflong, which is Assam's only hill station is near to Lumding.
Lumding Assembly constituency is one out of 126 Assembly Constituencies and bears number 92. It falls under Nowgong Lok Sabha Constituency.
The parliamentary constituency in India is 542 and from this, 441 seats are for the general category and the seats for Schedule Cast and Schedule Tribes is 84 and 47 respectively. Lumding Assembly Constituency falls under the Nowgong Lok Sabha constituency and there is no reservation for SC and ST.
Hojai is the newly formed districts, which was formed in 15 August 2016 from three tehsils of the Nagaon district. The district headquarter is situated at Sankardev Nagar with a distance of about 8 km from Hojai town. The district covers a 1686 km square area. A large number of people in Hojai are dependent upon agriculture. The district also has small-scale industries, such as Agar Wood Distillation units, Saw Mills and Bamboo and Cane furniture's Manufacturing units. The official language of the district is Assamese. There are three Assembly constituencies under the district i.e., Jamunamukh Assembly constituency, Hojai Assembly constituency and Lumding Assembly Constituency.
The only town, under Lumding Assembly, is Lumding town. The town is divided into 13 wards.
In the Assembly election 2016, the Lumding Constituency had a total of 182205 voters and out of them, the total number of valid voters was 156401. In the election, a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party named Sibu Misra won the election with 72072 votes and the runner up was Netra Ranjan Mahanta of the Indian National Congress Party who secured 41672 votes.
According to the latest census report released in 2011, the total population in Lumding is 31347 from which the males are 15909 and the females are 15438. Out of total people, 5.4% of people are of Schedule Cast and 0.5% is that of Schedule Tribe. Religion-wise, the Hindu religion has 97.23% of people and the Muslim religion has 1.45% of people.
There are about 6779 households in Lumding Assembly Constituency
WATER CONNECTION
Lumding Assembly Constituency has the facility of tap water from a treated source. The people of Lumding also use tube well and borehole.
STREET LIGHT
There are industrial and commercial electrification and road lighting at few points in Lumding.
MUNICIPALITY REACH IN THE AREA
While Lumding town itself functions as a municipality, the basic civic infrastructure is Maintained by Lumding Municipal corporation.
There are people of several religious groups who are living together in Lumding. The religious groups in Lumding are Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain. Hindu is the religion with the highest population and Jain has the Lowest population.
|
RELIGION |
TOTAL NUMBER |
MALE |
FEMALE |
|
Hindu |
30479 |
15462 |
15017 |
|
Muslim |
455 |
245 |
210 |
|
Christian |
127 |
65 |
62 |
|
Sikh |
81 |
42 |
39 |
|
Buddhist |
123 |
56 |
67 |
|
Jain |
62 |
31 |
31 |
|
Religion not specified |
20 |
8 |
12 |
In Lumding Constituency, the people that belonged to Schedule Cast is 1706 from which 899 are male and 807 are females and people of Schedule Tribe is 147 from which 80 are male and 67 are females.
TOP THREE CITIES IN LUMDING
The only major city in Lumding Assembly Constitution in Lumding. The city is divided into 13 wards for which elections are conducted every five years.
The overall count of electorates of Lumding Assembly Constituency is 156408 of which 81241 is the count of male electorates and 75167 is the count of female electorates.
Lumding has a sex ratio of 970 females per thousand males.
In Lumding, Children younger than the age of six are 2547 from which 1281 are boys and 1266 are girls. It makes up 8% of the overall population.
Lumding Assembly Constitution witnessed a polling percentage of 58.06% during the Lok Sabha election of 2019. In 2016 legislative Assembly election it showed a polling percentage of 46.05% and in Lok Sabha election 2014, it witnessed a polling percent of 31.33%.
The result of the last five elections in Lumding constituency are:
|
Assam assembly election year wise |
Name of the party |
Name of the candidate |
Number of votes |
|
1996 |
Hazi Abdour Rouf |
38502 |
|
|
Indian National Congress |
Debesh Chandra Chakraborty |
26250 |
|
|
200 |
Bharatiya Janata Party |
Sushil Dutta |
28631 |
|
Indian National Congress |
Maya Chakraborty |
27273 |
|
|
2006 |
Bharatiya Janata Party |
Sushil Dutta |
36693 |
|
Indian National congress |
Maya Chakraborty |
28894 |
|
|
2011 |
All India United Democratic Front |
Swapan Kar |
39443 |
|
Bharatiya Janata Party |
Sushil Dutta |
37612 |
|
|
2016 |
Bharatiya Janata Party |
Sibu Misra |
72072 |
|
Indian National Congress |
Netra Ranjan Mahanta |
41672 |
In the Assembly Election of 2016, Sibu Misra of the BJP won the election with 46.05% of the overall votes. Netra Ranjan Mahanta of the INC party was the runner up, with 26.62% out of total votes. Swapan Kar of All India United Democratic Front secured 24.96%, Kamrul Islam Barbhuyan of JNCP secured 0.48%. The IND candidates, Ujjal Deb and Kamal Patar secured 0.71% and 0.39% respectively. 0.79% of the vote went to the option 'none of the above'.
|
Name of candidate |
Name of the party |
Percentage |
|
Sibu Misra |
Bharatiya Janata Party |
46.05% |
|
Netra Ranjan |
Indian National Congress |
26.62% |
|
Swapan Kar |
All India United Democratic Front |
24.96% |
|
Ujjal Deb |
Independent |
0.71% |
|
Kamrul Islam |
JNCP |
0.48% |
|
Kamal Patar |
Independent |
0.39% |
|
None of the above |
|
0.79% |
The candidates that contested in the 2016 Assembly Elections are:
Among all the candidates that contested, the candidate who emerged as the winner of 2016 Lumding election was Sibu Misra who belonged to the Bharatiya Janata Party with 46.05% votes and defeated Netra Ranjan of the Indian National Congress party, who secured 26.62%.
In the last five years, the MLA of Lumding, Sibu Misra has inaugurated many roads in Lumding under the scheme called 'Assam Darshan Scheme'.
In 2021 upcoming Assam assembly election, different parties have laid out their manifestos to the people so that they can win the election.
The BJP has made decisions about involving public opinions so they announced that hundreds of vehicles with audio-visual presentation will tour Assam in order to know about the needs of the public. And the people can also make a miss call in order to state their needs. The party, already providing almost 8000 old namgarhs with 250000 rupees each, also promised to increase the benefits of other namgarhs as well. They have also provided land pattas to landless people.
Congress party's manifesto mentions the waiver of microfinance loans of all types for women to ease the problems of women of villages who are involved in taking loans from microfinance organisation. The party also promised free electricity up to 120 units so that it will be a relief for the poor and middle-class people and they will not have to pay a large amount of bill every month
The party also ensured that a member of each family will have a job to prevent unemployment and poverty by adopting the policy of 'one family, one job'.
The AGP party who has allied with BJP has promised to find solutions regarding the problems of flood and improve the welfare of children, women and economically weaker sections of society.
The AIUDF party promised to protect the security of the minorities and deal with the issues of illegal immigrants.