With the announcement in the last week of May 2022, a by-election is taking place in 6-Agartala and 8-Town Bardowali assembly constituency under West Tripura district, 46-Surma assembly constituency under Dhalai district and 57-Yubarajnagar assembly constituency under North Tripura district. The byelection is taking place as BJP MLAs Sudip Roy Barman, and Asish Kumar Saha of the 6-Agartala and 8-Town Bardowali assembly constituencies tendered their resignation to Speaker Ratan Chakraborty in the first week of February last. Another BJP MLA, Asis Das of 46-Surma assembly constituency, was disqualified for anti-party activities in January last, while CPIM MLA and former Speaker Ramendra Chandra Debnath of 57-Jubarajnagar passed away. In the fray, six candidates from 6-Agartala seats, seven from 8-Town Bardowali, six from the 46-Surma seat and five from the 57-Jubarajnagar seat. A total of 1,88,854 electorates are eligible to exercise their democratic rights comprising 95,283 female and 93,567 male voters. Among these four assembly constituencies, the highest number of electors is in 6-Agartala, 51,639. In contrast, in 8-Town Bardowali, the electoral numbers are 46,583, in 46-Surma 47,289 voters and 57-Jubarajnagar, the numbers of voters are 43,373. The polling is on June 23 counting is on June 26.
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