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The 1977 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place in a single phase on 31 December 1977 to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India.
Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on December 31, 1977. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.
Participating Political Parties
Partytype Abbreviation
Party
National Parties
1
CPI
Communist Party of India
2
CPM
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
3
INC
Indian National Congress
4
JNP
Janata Party
State Parties
5
FBL
All India Forward BlocK
6
RSP
Revolutionary Socialist Party
Registered(Unrecognised ) Parties
7
PBI
Proutist Bloc of India
8
TCD
Tripura State Congress for Democracy
9
TUS
Tripura Upajati Zuba Samiti
Independents
10
IND
IndependentS
No. of Constituencies
Type of Constituencies
GEN
SC
ST
Total
No. of Constituencies
34
7
19
60
Electors
Men
Women
Total
No.of Electors
495,342
466,656
961,998
No.of Electors who Voted
406,052
358,878
764,930
Polling Percentage
81.97%
76.90%
79.51%
Performance of Women Candidates
Men
Women
Total
No.of Contestants
322
06
328
Elected
59
01
60
Government Formation
The Left Front won a majority of the 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The LF was an alliance of left-wing political parties, including the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M). Nripen Chakraborty of the CPI-M formed a government as Chief Minister on January 5, 1978.