2010 Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council election

2010 Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council election
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28 out of 30 seats in the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party CPI(M) INC INPT
Alliance Left Front (Tripura) N/A N/A
Seats won 25 0 0
Seat change Increase4 - -
Popular vote 302,540 105,925 60,321
Chief Executive Member before election

Ranjit Debbarma
CPI(M)

Chief Executive Member

Ranjit Debbarma
CPI(M)

Elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) were held on 3 May 2010. On that day elections were held for 27 of the 28 elected seats in the Autonomous District Council. In one seat (Maharani-Chellagong) the election was countermanded, following the death of Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Ranjit Jamatia.[1][2] 25 of the 28 elected seats in the Autonomous District Council are reserved for Scheduled Tribes.[3]

Security arrangements ahead of the election were tight. The Tripura Home Department had identified 91 polling stations as "hyper-sensitive" and 347 as "sensitive". Authorities in Tripura had asked the Indian government to provide an additional thirty paramilitary companies to ensure the electoral process.[4]

There were 636,169 eligible voters.[4] The electoral turnout stood at 83.69%. The votes were counted on 7–8 May 2010. The election result was a landslide victory for the Left Front. The Left Front, with 63.81% of the votes cast, won all 27 seats that were up for election.[1] 25 seats went to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), one seat to the Communist Party of India and one seat to the All India Forward Bloc.[1]

The Indian National Congress emerged as a second-largest party in the election. The party finished second in 18 seats. Amongst its candidates was Debabrata Koloi, former TTAADC Chief Executive Member. Other parties in the fray were the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura, the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (an INPT splinter-group, that campaigned for a separate TTAADC state), the National Socialist Party of Tripura, National Conference of Tripura, All India Trinamool Congress and BJP. NCT and Trinamool Congress contested in an alliance.[1][5] 44 candidates were independents. In total 122 candidates had filed their nominations.[4] The Left Front, Congress and INPT each contested all 28 seats.[3][6][7]

  1. ^ a b c d TRIPURA LF CLEAN SWEEPS ADC POLLS Archived 15 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ BJP candidate dies of dog bite
  3. ^ a b Left Fronte List Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b c PTI (14 April 2010). "122 nominations filed for TTAADC elections". The Hindu. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  5. ^ "No alliance of Trinamool, Congress in Tripura polls : Nagaland Post News". Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2010.
  6. ^ Congress List Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ INPT List Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine