Total seats in Tripura Assembly: 60
Bharatiya Janata Party - 35 (0)
Indigenous People's Front of Tripura - 8 (0)
Communist Party of India-Marxist - 16 (49)
Communist Party of India - 0 (1)
Congress - 0 (10)
Category: tripura-assembly-election-2018
Sweeping aside Left's 25-year rule, BJP pulls off resounding win in Tripura
The BJP on its own comfortably managed an absolute majority with its candidates won 35 seats in the 60-member Assembly while its ally, the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT), a tribal based party, has wrested eight seats.
Left Sarkar ousted in Tripura as BJP surges in northeast
In a saffron surge in the northeast, the BJP put up a spectacular show in Tripura on Saturday, ending 25 years of the Left rule, and was looking to formation of coalition governments in Nagaland and Meghalaya in the face of hung verdicts.
Left Sarkar out as BJP set to form government in Tripura
According to the trends of the results, BJP-IPFT alliance were headed to secure 40 seats, nine seats more than the simple majority figure of 31. The Left Front was leading in only 19 seats.
Will go for non-Congress government in Meghalaya: Ram Madhav
Behind this verdict, he said, there was hard work by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who not merely addressed four election meetings but was continuously monitoring the BJP strategy in Tripura along with party President Amit Shah.
BJP inches closer to landslide victory, CPIM confident of forming 8th Left front govt.
According to the latest updates, the BJP is heading in 38 seats leaving the CPIM which is ahead in 20 seats, red-faced .
BJP, ally leading in Tripura
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) spearheaded LF, which has been ruling the Northeastern state uninterruptedly for the past 25 years, is leading in 16 of the 40 seats for which trend is available.
CPI-M, BJP neck-and-neck after counting of postal ballots in Tripura
"After the completion of counting of postal ballots, counting of votes stored in the EVMs (Electronic Voting Machines) would be taken up with a 30-minute break," the poll official said.
Counting of votes begins in Tripura
A total of 290 candidates, including 23 women of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist, Communist Party of India, Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress and many independents, are in the fray.
Both CPI-M, BJP confident of forming government in Tripura
Both the ruling CPI-M-led Left Front and the opposition BJP sounded optimistic about forming the next government in Tripura as officials prepared for Saturday's counting of votes cast in the February 18 assembly elections.
Tripura records 91.54 per cent turnout this election with re-polling in 6 centers
Adding to this the CEO further informed, “With this re-polling turnout the state has recorded a total of 91.54 per cent turnout in these general assembly constituencies to 59 of 60 seats.”
Tripura goes for re-polling in 6 centers
As per the direction of the Election Commission of India (ECI) the Tripura which went for polling on February 18, on Monday goes for re-polling in six centers comprising of Chief Minister Manik Sarkar's Dhanpur assembly constituency.
CPI-M lashes out at state election dept. after re-poll declaration in 6 centers
Dhar questioned the impartiality of the election official here and viewed, “The re-poll has been declared in those centers where the left front have clear winning prospects.”
Tension mounts high after live bombs recovered in poll-bound Tripura
Tension triggered amongst the locals of the Majlishpur assembly constituencies at Ranira Bazar area on Friday morning after a live bomb was recovered.
Tripura scripts another record, over 92% electorate votes in Assembly polls
Balloting was held in 59 of the 60 Assembly constituencies. Polling was deferred to March 12 in Charilam (Reserved-Tribal) seat due to the death of sitting MLA and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) candidate Ramendra Narayan Debbarma.
Strong rooms kept under strict surveillance
A strict eye vigil is being kept across the strong rooms at Umakanta School to maintain transparency for free and fair election. It is to be mentioned here that the EVMs are kept in the strong rooms of Umakanta School.
78.56% voter turnout till 9 PM, says CEO
He further informed, "191 VVPAT and 148 EVM machines were found technically glitched from different corner of the state today and later those were replaced and pit in place."
Both CPI-M, BJP confident of Tripura election victory
As Sunday's voting to elect 59 of the 60 members of the Tripura Assembly passed off peacefully, the ruling CPI-M and the BJP exuded confidence of an electoral victory in the northeastern state.
Over 75 pc turnout in peaceful Tripura Assembly polls
"Over 75 per cent electorate had cast their votes till 4 p.m. Though the pre-scheduled voting hours ended at 4 p.m, a huge numbers of voters were still in queues at a large number of polling stations across the state," an Election Department official told
Moderate polling in Tripura Assembly elections
An election department official said that snags in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) attached with VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) in over 150 polling stations, resulted in slow balloting across the state.
23.25 per cent voter turnout till 11:00 AM
"There were technical glitches in EVMs and we have had difficulty in about 3% of the total voting machines across the State which were later put in place getting those replaced with fresh EVMs," CEO
BJP candidate accuses CPI-M of 'threatening' voters, files FIR
Meantime the state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sriram Taranikanti informed, "there were no incidents of violence reported anywhere in the state and the polling is in underway in peaceful manner."
11 per cent voter turnout recorded in 2 hours in Tripura
Meantime the Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, also MLA from Dhanpur assembly constituency today morning and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president Biplab Deb has cast their vote today morning.
Tripura goes for poll amidst tight security
Tripura is the first of three states in the Northeastern region of the country which goes for poll today using first of its kind VVPAT machines apart from EVMs.
Voting for Tripura Assembly elections begins
"Men and women in large numbers queued up in front of many polling stations well before polling opened at 7 a.m. in the entire state. Polling ends at 4 p.m.," said Sriram Taranikanti, the Chief Electoral Officer.