Indian general election, 2014 (Tripura)

Indian general election in Tripura, 2014

7 April − 12 April 2014

2 seats

	First party

Leader	Manik Sarkar
Party	CPI(M)
Last election	2
Seats won	2
Seat change
Percentage	64%
Swing	2.31%

Tripura

The Indian general election, 2014 polls in Tripura for 2 Lok Sabha seats will be held in two phases on 7 and 12 April 2014.^[1] As of 7 February 2014, the total voter strength of Tripura is 2,379,541.^[2]

The main political parties in Tripura are Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) and Indian National Congress (INC).

Opinion poll

Conducted in Month(s)	Ref	Polling Organisation/Agency	INC	BJP	CPI(M)
Conducted in Month(s)	Ref	Polling Organisation/Agency
Aug–Oct 2013	^[3]	Times Now-India TV-CVoter	0	0	2
Jan–Feb 2014	^[4]	Times Now-India TV-CVoter	0	0	2

Election schedule

Constituency wise Election schedule are given below^[1]-

Polling Day	Phase	Date	Constituencies	Vote Percentage
1	1	7 April	Tripura West	84^[5]
2	4	12 April	Tripura East	81.8^[6]

Results

The results of the elections were declared on 16 May 2014.^[1]


2
CPI(M)

Name of Party	Vote Share %	Change	Seats won
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	64.00%	+2.31	2
Indian National Congress	15.20%		0
Bharatiya Janata Party	5.70%		0

References

1 2 3 "General Elections – 2014 : Schedule of Elections" (PDF). 5 March 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
↑ "Tripura General (Lok Sabha) Elections 2014". Maps of India. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
↑ "Congress 102, BJP 162; UPA 117, NDA 186: C-Voter Poll". Outlook. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
↑ "India TV-C Voter projection: Big gains for BJP in UP, Bihar; NDA may be 45 short of magic mark". Indiatv. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
↑ "LS elections kick off with polling in Assam, Tripura". Hindustan Times. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
↑ "High Voter Turnout in Phase 4". IBNLive. 12 April 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2014.

Indian general election, 2014

Constituencies MPs elected Opinion polling Parties Results Timeline

(15th Lok Sabha) Incumbent Prime Minister: Narendra Modi (16th Lok Sabha)

Parliamentary Candidates	NDA UPA Left Front CPI(M) AIFB LDF

Prime ministerial candidates	Narendra Modi (BJP)

Leaders	Arun Jaitley Jayalalithaa L. K. Advani Manmohan Singh Narendra Modi Rahul Gandhi Rajnath Singh Sonia Gandhi Sushma Swaraj

Parties	National Parties : BJP BSP CPI CPI(M) INC NCP State Parties : AAP AIADMK AIFB AITC BJD DMK HJC INLD JD(S) JD(U) JKNC JMM JVM Loksatta MNF NPF NPP RJD RLD RSP SP SS TDP TRS YSR Congress

Party Leaders	National Parties : Mayawati Prakash Karat Rajnath Singh S. Sudhakar Reddy Sharad Pawar Sonia Gandhi

Campaign	Campaigning BJP (Prashant Kishor) Congress

States	Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Karnataka Kerala Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Nagaland Odisha Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh

Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from Northeast states

GE 2014

Arunachal Pradesh	Kiren Rijiju Ninong Ering

Assam	Biren Singh Engti Sirajuddin Ajmal Badruddin Ajmal Rameswar Teli Bijoya Chakravarty Kamakhya Prasad Tasa Gaurav Gogoi Radheshyam Biswas Naba Kumar Sarania Sarbananda Sonowal Ramen Deka Rajen Gohain Sushmita Dev Ram Prasad Sarmah

Manipur	Thokchom Meinya Thangso Baite

Meghalaya	Vincent H Pala Conrad Sangma

Mizoram	C L Ruala

Nagaland	Neiphiu Rio

Sikkim	Prem Das Rai

Tripura	Jitendra Choudhury Sankar Prasad Datta

15th LS members

17th LS members

Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from

States: AP; BH; CT; GA; GJ; HR; HP; JK; JH; KL; KA; MP; MH; OR; PB; RJ; TN; TG; UP; UT; WB

Northeast: AR; AS; MN; ML; MZ; NL; SK; TR

Union Territories: AN; CH; DN; DD; LD; DL; PY

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