Silchar Lok Sabha constituency of Assam: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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Silchar is one of 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in the north-eastern state of Assam. Voting here for the 2019 Lok Sabha election took place on April 18 and the result will be out on May 23.

Silchar registered 79.40 per cent voter turnout in Lok Sabha Election 2019, a gain of 3.71 per cent from 2014. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1191289 while 945834 came out to exercise their franchise. While in 2014, the constituency registered 75.69 per cent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1056273 while 799540 voted.

Rajdeep Roy of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Sushmita Dev of the Indian National Congress, Shyam Deo Kurmi of the Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST), Hitabrata Roy of the All India Trinamool Congress and Badrul Islam Barbhuiya of the All India Forward Bloc are some of the prominent names who contested the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Silchar Lok Sabha constituency in Assam.

Here is the full list of candidates who contested the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Silchar Lok Sabha constituency of Assam:

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	RAJDEEP ROY	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	SUSHMITA DEV	Indian National Congress
3	HITABRATA ROY	All India Trinamool Congress
4	NAZIA YASMIN MAZUMDAR	National People's Party
5	Badrul Islam Barbhuiya	All India Forward Bloc
8	Shyam Deo Kurmi	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
9	Ashitava Dutta	Independent
10	Ashutosh Bhattacharjee	Independent
11	Nazmul Haque Laskar	Independent
12	Puran Lal Goala	Independent
13	Dilip Kumar	Independent
14	Mohendra Chandra Das	Independent
15	Shuvadip Datta	Independent
16	Sabindra Das	Independent

Silchar Lok Sabha constituency covers seven assembly segments - Silchar, Sonai, Dholai (SC), Udharbond, Lakhipur, Barkhola and Katigorah.