The Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election Result for 2014 has the Indian National Congress retaining power winning 42 out of 60 seats.
The party wise break-up of constituencies is as follows:
Total constituencies: 60
- Indian National Congress: 42
- BJP: 11
- People's Party of Arunachal: 5
- Independent: 2
- Indian National Congress: 49.5% ; Total votes: 251575
- Bharatiya Janata Party: 31.0% ; Total votes: 157412
- People's Party of Arunachal: 9.0% ; Total votes: 45532
- Independent: 4.9% ; Total votes: 24985
Chief Minister, Nabam Tuki has successfully led his party the Indian National Congress to victory. He retained his seat from Sagalee Constituency and won unopposed. There were 11 candidates that won unopposed and all were from the Congress party, underlining the strength of the party within the state. The people of Arunachal Pradesh have voted strongly for the Congress which is against the general anti-incumbency trends seen across the country. However, Congress lost seats in Along West, Bomdila, Bordumsa-Diyum, Changlang North, Koloriang, Mariyam-Geku, Mechukha, Nampong, Nari-Koyu, Pasighat East, Raga, Tezu, Ziro-Hapoli. Kanubari constituency will have to go in for a re-poll as the winning candidate from Congress, Newlai Tingkhatra died of cardiac arrest.
In 2009 Assembly Elections, the BJP won 3 seats, whereas in 2014 it won 11 seats. The PPA in 2009 won 4 seats, whereas in 2014 it won 5 seats. The AITC in 2009 won 7 seats, whereas in 2014 it won 0 seats. The NCP won 5 seats in 2009, whereas in 2014 it won 0 seats.
The interesting fact about this state is the fact that it has always encouraged new comers to enter the political fray and the number of young politicians are higher than found in other states.
This election was no different with 19 new faces fighting the elections. We have 9 from the BJP, 5 from the Congress, 3 from PPA and 2 are independent candidates. The feature of these elections have been the fact that several newcomers fought and won against established candidates, unusual in other states.
Debutant, Tumke Bagra, BJP (Along West) has defeated the Parliamentary Secretary (Home), Gadam Ete. Tamar Murtem, BJP (Raga) has defeated Health Parliamentary Secretary, Nido Pavitra. In Roing constituency, the PPA Chief Minister hopeful, Laeta Umbrey lost to debutant from Congress Mutchu Mithi. Another newcomer Tatung Jamoh defeated the sitting MLA from BJP, Dr Tangor Tapak.