Sarukhetri is an Assembly Constituency and it is located in Barpeta District. The current MLA of Sarukhetri Assembly Constitution is Jakir Hussain Sikdar.
Sarukhetri Assembly Constituency is one of the 126 Assembly Constituencies and it bears number 46. It falls under Barpeta Lok Sabha Constituency.
India has 542 Parliamentary Constituency and from these seats, 441 seats are for the general category and the seats for SC and ST is 84 and 47 respectively. Sarukhetri Assembly Constituency falls under Barpeta Lok Sabha Constituency and there is no reservation for SC and ST.
The district, Barpeta is an administrative district in Lower Assam, India. The district headquarter is located in Barpeta. The area covered by the district is 3245 km square. According to the 2011 census, most of the people in Barpera district is of Islam religion and Bengali is the language spoken by the majority of the people in the district with 61.74%, while Assamese speakers are 36.14%.
Some of the villages in Sarukhetri tehsils are:
● Dakhin Paschim Sarukhetri
● Dakhin Pub Sarukhetri
● Madhya Paschim Sarukhetri
● Madhya Sarukhetri
● Paschim Sarukhetri
● Pub Sarukhetri
● Uttar Pub Sarukhetri
In Sarukhetri Assembly Election 2016, the Sarukhetri Constituency had a total of 175014 voters and out of them the total number of valid voters was 154551. In the election, a candidate, named Jakir Hussain Sikdar of the Indian National Congress party won the election with 70062 votes and defeated Chittaranjan Barman of the Asom Gana Parishad party who got 45815 votes.
The overall count of electorates of Sarukhetri Assembly Constituency is 154551 from which 81182 are male electorates and 73369 are female electorates.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha Election, Sarukhetri Assembly Constituency witnessed a polling percentage of 53.38%. In 2016 Legislative Assembly Election it showed a polling percentage of 45.06% and on Lok Sabha Election 2014, it witnessed a polling percent of 38.23%.
Assam Assembly Election year wise |
Name of the candidate |
Name of the party |
Total votes |
2016 |
Jakir Hussain Sikdar |
Indian National Congress |
70062 |
Chittaranjan Barman |
Asom Gana Parishad |
45815 |
|
2011 |
Ali Hossain |
All India United Democratic Front |
51537 |
Tara Prasad Das |
Indian National Congress |
23915 |
|
2006 |
Tara Prasad Das |
Independent |
35179 |
Kamaleswar Medhi |
Asom Gana Parishad |
23593 |
|
2001 |
Dr Tara Prasad Das |
Independent |
34782 |
Nizam Uddin Khan |
Communist Party of India |
19895 |
|
1996 |
Nizamuddin Khan |
Communist Party of India |
21375 |
Kandarpa Kumar Das |
All India Indira Congress |
12106 |
NAME OF CANDIDATE |
NAME OF THE PARTY |
PERCENTAGE |
Jakir Hussain |
Indian National Congress |
45.06% |
Chittaranjan Barman |
Asom Gana Parishad |
29.46% |
Ali Hossain |
All India United Democratic Front |
13.8% |
Tara Prasad Das |
Independent |
6.19% |
Pearul Islam Ahmed |
Communist Party of India |
2.33% |
Hareswar Deka |
Independent |
0.84% |
Matiar Rahman |
The National Road Map Party of India |
0.54% |
Hemanta Kalita |
BGANP |
0.34% |
Anowar Islam Akand |
RAJPA |
0.33% |
Jabidur Rahman Khan |
Republican Party of India |
0.32% |
Arun Das |
Nationalist Congress Party |
0.28% |
None of the Above |
|
0.5% |
The candidates that participated in the Assembly Election of 2016 are:
In the end, the winner was Jakir Hussain Sikdar of the Indian National Congress Party who secured 70062 total votes.
WORK DONE IN LAST 5 YEARS BY THE CANDIDATE
The current MLA of Sarukhetri Assembly Constitution, Jakir Hussain Sikdar had constructed roads and toilets. He had also constructed walls around the schools and build a kitchen house near the Brahmashram Ashram of 38 no. North East Betbari Gaon Panchayat Fulorguri.