Barpeta Assembly Constituency - Population, Polling Percentage, Facilities, Parties Vote Share, Last Election Results

Barpeta is a township in the Barpeta district/region and a headquarter. The official languages of Barpeta are Bodo, Assamese, Bengali. There are many schools and colleges in Barpeta and it forms a part/structure of Barpeta Lok Sabha Constituency. The nearby towns/cities to Barpeta are Bongaigaon, Pathsala, Nalbari etc and the nearby villages are Majgaon, Sarupeta, Geruapara, Datirbori etc. Barpeta is also the gateway/doorway to one of the National Parks of Assam called as, Manas National Park.

Assembly Constituency Name & No :

The Assembly of Assam comprises 126 Members of Legislative Assembly which are directly elected from single-seat constituencies and its term is 5 years unless later dissolved. Its headquarter is stationed in Dispur.

Barpeta Assembly is the 126 assembly constituencies of Assam. Its constituency no. is 43 and it forms a part/structure of Barpeta 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. Barpeta Assembly Constituency is a part/structure of the Barpeta Lok Sabha/Parliamentary Constituency and it is the 10 assembly segments of Barpeta Parliament Seat. The current MP of the constituency is Abdul Khaleque of INC. [Also Check - List of Barpeta Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Polling Booths]

District:

Barpeta is a township in Barpeta region, Assam, India. Barpeta district is an authoritative district. Its headquarter is at Barpeta. The district has many important towns and villages namely, Barpeta, Howly, Barpeta Road, Bhabanipur, Sorbhog, Bahari, Sarupeta, Mandia etc, among them Barpeta Road is the largest town in the region. It is a commercial town. The district has 1,693,622 inhabitants which includes, 867,004 males and 826,618 females. The district's neighbouring country is Bhutan towards the north.

No. Of Towns :

There are 5 Town Committees under Barpeta Constituency, namely :

• Sorbhog

• Pathsala

• Howly

• Sarthebari Patacharkuchi

 No. Of Inhabited Villages :

In the Barpeta region, the number of inhabited villages are 1030.

Assembly Status :

The Assembly Election of Barpeta Constituency had 181385 electors. Amongst them, the overall valid votes were 163152. In the 2016 Assembly Election, AGP candidate Gunindra Nath Das won the MLA seat, with 63563 votes and became MLA, whereas a candidate from INC A Rahim Ahmed was the runner-up with 57753 votes. Therefore he lost the MLA seat by 5810 votes.

 Water Connection :

Barpeta, a township under the Barpeta region has 337,929 houses. In Barpeta, about half of the population and 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 tap, wells, 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 town/village overview, it is noted that throughout the years there are improvements in the access to electricity to every household in the Barpeta region.

Age Group Distribution

In Barpeta Assembly Constituency about 16.99% is under six years of age.