STATISTICAL REPORT ON THE GENERAL ELECTION TO THE 15TH LOK SABHA, 2009 OF ASSAM CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER, ASSAM GUWAHATI FOREWORD On the dissolution of the fourteenth Lok Sabha and pursuant to the Presidential Notification dated 23rd March, 2009 (Monday) and 28th March, 2009 (Wednesday), General Elections were held in 2 (two) Phases in 14 Parliamentary Constituencies of Assam along with the other States of India with a view to constitute a new House of the People. In Phase 1, 3 PCs, viz. 1-Karimganj(SC), 2-Silchar and 3- Autonomous District(ST) comprising 5 districts of Assam went to the Polls. In Phase 2B, elections were held in the remaining 11 PCs in 22 districts of Assam as per schedules fixed by the Election Commission of India for the polls in Assam are given below : a) Last date for filing nominations: The 30th March, 2009 (Monday) for PCs going to polls in Phase 1 and 4th April, 2009 (Saturday)for PCs going to polls in Phase 2B. b) Scrutiny of nominations: The 31st March, 2009 (Tuesday) for PCs going to polls in Phase 1 and 6th April, 2009 (Monday) for PCs going to polls in Phase 2B. c) Withdrawal of candidature: The 2nd April, 2009 (Thursday) for PCs going to polls in Phase 1 and 8th April, 2009 Wednesday) for PCs going to polls in Phase 2B. d) Date of poll: The 16th April, 2009 (Thursday) for PCs going to polls in Phase 1 and 23rd April, 2009 (Thursday) for PCs going to polls in Phase 2B. e) Date of counting: The 16th May, 2009 (Saturday) for all PCs. The electoral rolls of all the 126 Assembly segments of the 14 Parliamentary Constituencies of the State that were used for General Elections, 2009 were the same that were revised with 1st January, 2009 as the qualifying date and updated till the last date for making nominations. After updation of electoral rolls, up to the last date of making nominations, i.e. 30-03-2009, as per provision of section 23(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, the total number of General electors in the State stood at 17443617 and Service electors at 26712. For the conduct of the General Elections to Lok Sabha, 2009, a total of 18828 polling stations were set up and poll taken on the 16th April and 23rd April, 2009 as scheduled. Altogether, 174 candidates filed their nomination papers for 14 Parliamentary Constituencies, of which 19 (Nineteen) nomination papers were rejected by the Returning Officers during scrutiny while 9 (Nine) candidates withdrew their nominations, leaving 158 contesting candidates in the fray including 11(Eleven) female candidates. Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were used in the State in all 18828 Polling Stations. General Elections, 2009 in Assam was marked by use of micro-observers and videographers, based on vulnerability mapping exercise of polling areas undertaken by the Returning Officers, District Election Officers and District Superintendents of Police. A Communication Plan up to the level of the Polling Station, which included a comprehensive database of the Telephone/ Mobile numbers of all officials involved in the conduct of elections, was prepared and used for effective monitoring of polls. A highlight of the General Elections, 2009 in Assam was the extensive use of IT covering all aspects of polls. Based on the requirement projected by the Election Department, the Assam Unit of the National Informatics Center developed a software application for candidate affidavit scanning and uploading which was effective and easy to use. Besides, two separate software applications were designed by the NIC under the direct supervision of the Election Department and used in the entire state, the first one for randomization of EVMs and the other, for randomization of polling, counting personnel and micro-observers. These applications were robust, user friendly and catered to all mandatory requirements of the Election Commission of India. A decision was taken by the Election Department, based on experiences of the past years, where tabulation took longer than actual counting, to cause development of a software application for actual counting and not for generating trends alone. Accordingly, the Assam Unit of the NIC, under guidance of the Election Department, developed a web-based on-line application software for counting where results of counting from each counting table was entered in the PC installed in each counting hall. Each such PC in the counting hall, was, in turn connected to a server in the counting center through LAN. To ensure connectivity from the counting centers to the Election Department server, a Virtual Private Network over Broadband (VoB) was created for all the 48 counting center locations through the BSNL. Data was stored in the server procured by the Election Department for this purpose. The effort was hugely successful with tabulation of results taking far less time than it did in earlier elections and reports like P07, P08, P09, Form 20 Part I, Form 20 Part II, Annexure for tabulating Trends and Results and Form 21E being auto generated. The website of the Chief Electoral Officer Assam (http://ceoassam.nic.in) was constantly updated right through the poll process and important facts and figures and few important instructions of the Election Department/ Election Commission of India were put up on it. For facilitating video- conferencing with the ECI at short notice, it was decided to install a video-conferencing unit in the office of the CEO Assam. Installation of the VC unit proved extremely useful as the Department could participate in numerous Video Conferences with the ECI and hold video-conferences with the districts during the poll process. Re-polling was held in 5 Polling Stations in the first phase and 14 Polling Stations in the second phase due to various reasons, including malfunction of EVMs. Counting of votes commenced at 8 am on 16-05-2009 for 14 HPCs and results were declared the same day. Forty- eight counting centres were setup for the purpose with the approval of the Commission. Detailed data and information on Parliamentary Elections, 2009 have been compiled and provided in this booklet. It is hoped that such presentation of data will help interested public in general and scholars and administrators in particular. Dated Dispur the (Hemanta Narzary, IAS) 28th May, 2009 Chief Electoral Officer, Assam. STATISTICAL REPORT CONTENTS A MAP of Assam showing the Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies SUBJECT PAGE NO. GENERAL INFORMATION 1 Parliamentary Constituency – their Area (Sq. km) 1 2 List of Assembly Constituencies showing their Election District 2 - 4 wise Breakup 3 List of Assembly Constituencies showing their Parliamentary 5 - 7 Constituencies wise Breakup 4 Schedule for Phase-wise Parliamentary Constituencies 8 5 Highlights 9 - 10 6 Election Statistics at a Glance 11 - 12 7 Political Party-wise details of Contestants 13 8 Polling Station Details 14 - 17 9 Re-poll Details – Phase-wise 18 - 19 10 List of Counting Centres 20 - 23 11 Name of Returning Officers of Parliamentary Constituency-wise 24 12 List of winning candidates 25 13 Elector Details - Male Female break-up of General and Service 26 - 32 voters in each PC – AC wise 14 Voter Turnout Report with Male Female voter turnout percentage 33 - 37 15 Candidates data summary 38 16 Electors Data Summary 39 17 Performance of Political Parties 40 18 Performance of Women Candidates 41 19 Parliamentary Constituency wise – Data Summary 42 - 55 RESULT DETAILS 20 Result – Assembly Constituency-wise 56 - 69 21 Results Detailed – Contesting Candidates, their Sex, Age, 70 - 76 Category, Party, Votes Secured and Percentage AFFIDAVITS DETAIL 22 Gender of Candidates – Distribution of Male and Female 77 candidate - Party wise 23 Age of Candidates : An Analysis –Party wise 78 24 Oldest and Youngest Candidates 79 25 Highlight : Oldest and Youngest winning candidate 79 SUBJECT PAGE NO. 26 Candidates Information : Sex, Party, Age and educational 80 – 85 qualification 27 Education Levels of Candidates - Party wise 86 28 Details of educational qualification of candidates - Party wise 87 - 88 29 Assets and Liabilities of Candidates 89 -100 30 Sum of Assets of Candidates - Party wise 101 31 Candidates with Highest Assets 102 32 Candidates with Lowest Assets 102 33 Assets of winning candidates 103 GENERAL ELECTION TO LOK SABHA – 2009 IN ASSAM PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY - their Area (sq. km) PC No. PC Name Type Area (sq. km) 1 Karimganj SC 3198.40 2 Silchar GEN 3822.72 3 Autonomous District ST 15214.12 4 Dhubri GEN 4137.83 5 Kokrajhar ST 7061.81 6 Barpeta GEN 3593.39 7 Gauhati GEN 4601.26 8 Mangaldoi GEN 4329.65 9 Tezpur GEN 6235.83 10 Nowgong GEN 4064.12 11 Kaliabor GEN 5012.53 12 Jorhat GEN 4003.16 13 Dibrugarh GEN 5295.89 14 Lakhimpur GEN 8346.93 1 GENERAL ELECTION TO LOK SABHA – 2009 IN ASSAM LIST OF ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES SHOWING THEIR ELECTION DISTRICT WISE BREAK-UP Name of Revenue Name of Election No. & Name of the L.A. District District Constituency Karimganj Karimganj 1-Ratabari (SC) 2-Patherkandi 3-Karimganj North 4-Karimganj South 5-Badarpur Hailakandi Hailakandi 6-Hailakandi 7-Katlicherra 8-Algapur Cachar Silchar 9-Silchar 10-Sonai 11-Dholai (SC) 12-Udharbond 13-Lakhipur 14-Barkhola 15-Katigorah N.C-Hills Haflong 16-Haflong (ST) Karbi Anglong Bokajan 17-Bokajan (ST) Diphu 18-Howraghat (ST) 19-Diphu (ST) Hamren 20-Baithalangso (ST) Dhubri South Salmara 21-Mankachar 22-Salmara South Dhubri 23-Dhubri 24-Gauripur 25-Golakganj Bilasipara 26-Bilasipara West 27-Bilasipara East Kokrajhar Gossaigaon 28-Gossaigaon 29-Kokrajhar West (ST) Kokrajhar 30-Kokrajhar East (ST) Chirang 31-Sidli (ST) Bongaigaon Bongaigaon 32-Bongaigaon Bijni 33-Bijni North 34-Abhayapuri North Salmara 35-Abhayapuri South (SC) Goalpara Goalpara 36-Dudhnoi (ST) 37-Goalpara East 38-Goalpara West 39-Jaleswar Barpeta Barpeta 40-Sorbhog 43-Barpeta 44-Jania 45-Baghbar 46-Sorukhetri 47-Chenga Bajali 41-Bhabanipur 42-Patacharkuchi 2 GENERAL ELECTION TO LOK SABHA – 2009 IN ASSAM Name of Revenue Name of Election No.