Assam assembly election, May 2026

The 16th Assam legislative assembly. Polled.

Seats declared

126

64 needed for a majority

Largest party

BJP

82 seats · majority

Candidates

722

59 women, 7 elected

Turnout

86.25%

2.17 cr of 2.51 cr

The house

126 seats, each dot one assembly constituency

BJP82
INC19
AGP10
BOPF10
AIUDF2
RJRD2
AITC1

Biggest movements

Seat change against the previous Assam assembly election (2021)

BJP

+22

AIUDF

-14

INC

-10

BOPF

UPPL

-6

Parties

Ordered by seats won

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Strike rate	Votes	Share	Share +/−	Deposits lost
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party	82	+22	90	54.8%	81,92,498	37.81%	+4.60	4
INC Indian National Congress	19	-10	99	37.5%	64,64,016	29.84%	+0.17	10
AGP Asom Gana Parishad	10	+1	26	26.4%	14,02,832	6.47%	-1.43	10
BOPF BOPF	10	+6	11	50.8%	8,07,546	3.73%	+0.34	0
AIUDF All India United Democratic Front	2	-14	30	17.6%	11,82,913	5.46%	-3.83	16
RJRD RJRD	2	—	13	24.4%	5,81,574	2.68%	—	3
AITC All India Trinamool Congress	1	+1	22	5.0%	1,93,365	0.89%	+0.71	20
IND Independent	0	-1	258	2.0%	9,47,803	4.38%	-1.55	248
ASMJTYP ASMJTYP	0	—	10	32.3%	5,45,601	2.52%	—	0
UPPL United People's Party Liberal	0	-6	18	18.2%	4,96,304	2.29%	-1.10	7
JMM Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	0	—	16	11.1%	2,51,350	1.16%	—	13
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	0	-1	2	28.0%	1,02,190	0.47%	-0.36	1
NPEP National People's Party	0	—	2	11.8%	35,460	0.16%	—	1
SUCI SUCI	0	0	41	0.4%	31,950	0.15%	+0.05	41
AAAP Aam Aadmi Party	0	—	18	1.0%	29,473	0.14%	—	18
CPI(ML)(L)CPI(ML)(L)	0	0	3	7.3%	29,162	0.14%	0.00	2
VPI VPI	0	—	17	1.1%	27,975	0.13%	—	17
GNASURKP GNASURKP	0	—	10	1.3%	20,187	0.09%	—	10
VINPA VINPA	0	—	5	1.4%	14,276	0.07%	—	5
GGP GGP	0	—	3	2.4%	10,362	0.05%	—	3
CPI Communist Party of India	0	0	3	1.3%	7,618	0.04%	-0.11	3
RUC RUC	0	—	10	0.3%	6,308	0.03%	—	10
RPPRINAT RPPRINAT	0	—	3	0.8%	5,803	0.03%	—	3
BGANP BGANP	0	—	4	0.5%	3,611	0.02%	—	4
RCPIR RCPIR	0	—	1	1.4%	3,088	0.01%	—	1
TNRMPI TNRMPI	0	—	2	0.5%	2,219	0.01%	—	2
RPIA RPIA	0	0	1	0.9%	1,191	0.01%	-0.02	1
APNJNTP APNJNTP	0	—	2	0.1%	635	0.00%	—	2
AIFB AIFB	0	0	2	0.2%	626	0.00%	-0.01	2

Vote share is the share of valid votes cast in Assam at this election. A party’s national share is a different number and is never mixed with this one.

Largest victories of May 2026

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Assembly seat	State	Winner	Runner-up	Margin
LAKHIPUR	Assam	BJPKaushik Rai	INCM. Santi Kumar Singha	99,40164.64%
RONGKHANG	Assam	BJPTuliram Ronghang	INCAugustine Enghee	60,24354.80%
JALUKBARI	Assam	BJPHimanta Biswa Sarma	INCBidisha Neog	89,43452.34%
SAMAGURI	Assam	INCTanzil Hussain	BJPAnil Saikia	1,08,31050.78%
HOWRAGHAT	Assam	BJPLunsing Teron	INCSanjeeb Teron	78,10650.17%
NAHARKATIA	Assam	BJPTaranga Gogoi	INCPranatee Phukan	62,28249.98%
JALESHWAR	Assam	INCAftab Uddin Mollah	AIUDFSheikh Shah Alam	1,09,68846.80%
ALGAPUR-KATLICHERRA	Assam	INCZubair Anam Mazumder	AGPZakir Hussain Laskar	1,05,44846.44%
BEHALI	Assam	BJPMunindra Das (bapti)	CPI(ML)(L)Gyanendra Sarkar	60,70345.84%
DIBRUGARH	Assam	BJPPrasanta Phukan	ASMJTYPMainak Patra	72,04345.73%

Closest results of May 2026

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Assembly seat	State	Winner	Runner-up	Margin
HAJO-SUALKUCHI	Assam	AGPPrakash Chandra Das	INCNandita Das	7240.42%
BILASIPARA	Assam	AGPJibesh Roy	INCAmrit Badsha	2,6941.51%
PARBATJHORA	Assam	INCMd Ashraful Islam Sheikh	BOPFRezaul Karim	9,0225.49%
BIHPURIA	Assam	BJPBhupen Kumar Borah	INCNarayan Bhuyan	8,2365.86%
DULIAJAN	Assam	BJPRameswar Teli	INCDhruba Gogoi	10,4597.29%
KHOWANG	Assam	BJPChakradhar Gogoi	ASMJTYPLurinjyoti Gogoi	9,9847.55%
SRIJANGRAM	Assam	INCMd. Nurul Islam	AIUDFRejaul Karim Sarkar	18,3058.14%
DALGAON	Assam	AIUDFMazibur Rahman	INDMd Aynul Hoque	28,8809.49%
SIBSAGAR	Assam	RJRDAkhil Gogoi	BJPKushal Dowari	17,2729.86%
RAHA	Assam	BJPSashi Kanta Das	INCUtpal Bania	20,5949.88%