Tripura Legislative Assembly election, 2008

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60 seats in the Assembly

	First party	Second party

Leader	Manik Sarkar	Samir Ranjan Barman
Party	CPI(M)	INC
Leader's seat	Dhanpur	Bishalgarh
Seats won	46	10
Seat change	8	3
Popular vote	903,009	684,207
Percentage	48.01%	36.38%

Tripura District Map

Chief Minister before election

Manik Sarkar
CPI(M)

Elected Chief Minister

Manik Sarkar
CPI(M)

The Tripura Legislative Assembly election of 2008 took place in a single phase on 23 February 2008 to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India. Counting of votes happened on 7 March 2008 and because of the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in this election, the results were ready within the day.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) retained control of the Assembly by winning 49 seats giving them more than a two-thirds majority. This provided the CPI(M) with a fourth consecutive term as the Government of Tripura. The CPI(M) and its allies, the Left Front, have been in power in Tripura since 1978 barring a single term between 1988 and 1993 when the state was ruled by the Indian National Congress (INC).

CPI(M) leader Manik Sarkar was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Tripura for the fourth time on 10 March 2008 along with 11 other cabinet Ministers.

The previous elections to the 9th Tripura Legislative Assembly was held in 2003 and the term for this Assembly was set to expire on 19 March 2008. Hence, the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced fresh elections to the 10th Tripura Legislative Assembly on 14 January 2008. Of the 60 ACs in Tripura, 20 are reserved for Scheduled Tribes and 7 are reserved for Scheduled Castes. Elections in all polling stations were held using EVMs.

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