Tracker

Nawgong Lok Sabha Elections

Nowgong is one of 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in the north-eastern state of Assam and will cast its vote in the 2019 election on April 18.

Nowgong Lok Sabha constituency covers nine assembly segments - Jagiroad (SC), Marigaon, Laharighat, Raha (SC), Nowgong, Barhampur, Jamunamukh, Hojai and Lumding. In the 2014 Lok Sabha election here, BJP's Rajen Gohain defeated Congress' Jonjonali Baruah by more than 1.4 lakh votes. AIUDF's Aditya Langthasa was third.

The voter turnout was 80.75 per cent that year. Even in the 2009 Lok Sabha election, Gohain had helped himself to a rather comfortable win when he defeated Conrgess'Anil Raja by over 45,000 votes.

The voter turnout that year was 70.85 per cent. The Nowgong Lok Sabha constituency has over 15 lakh electors.

Read full profile

Candidates	Party	Status	Votes
Pradyut Bordoloi	INC	Won	739724
Rupak Sharma	BJP	Lost	722972
Nota	NOTA	Lost	10757
Sahadeb Das	AITC	Lost	5875
Zakir Hussain	IND	Lost	4315
Azgor Ali	PJP(S)	Lost	3655
Saiful Islam Choudhury	AJM	Lost	3421
Sukanta Mazumdar	BGP	Lost	2756