2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election

2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election

27 March, 1 & 6 April 2021

All 126 seats in the Assam Legislative Assembly
64 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered23,436,864
Turnout82.42% ( 2.30 pp)
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Sarbananda Sonowal Debabrata Saikia
Party BJP INC
Alliance NDA INDIA
Leader since 2016 2016
Leader's seat Majuli Nazira
Last election 29.5%, 60 seats (BJP)
41.9%, 86 seats (NDA)
30.9%, 26 seats (INC)
Seats won 60 29
Seats after 64 22
Seat change 4
Popular vote 6,384,538 5,703,341
Percentage 33.21% 29.67%
Swing 3.70 pp 1.29 pp
Alliance seats 75 50
Seats after 84 22
Seat change 11 New
Alliance vote 8,556,059 8,396,486
Alliance percentage 44.51% 43.68%
Alliance swing 2.61 pp New



Chief Minister before election

Sarbananda Sonowal
BJP

Elected Chief Minister

Himanta Biswa Sarma
BJP

The 2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election was the 15th quinquennial legislative assembly election held in the Indian state of Assam from March 27 to April 6 in three phases, to elect 126 MLAs to the 15th Assam Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the result declared on Sunday, 2 May. The term of the previous Fourteenth Legislative Assembly of Assam ended on 31 May 2021.

The election saw the incumbent BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) retaining power with 75 seats, which marks the first time a non-INC alliance winning consecutive terms in the state. The Mahajot led by INC won 50 seats, increasing its tally from 26 in 2016. Jailed activist and Raijor Dal founder and President Akhil Gogoi contested the election as an independent candidate and won the Sibsagar seat by a margin of 11,875 votes.