The Bharatiya Janata Party won 82 of the 126 seats in the 2026 Assam Assembly election, a gain of 22 seats from 2021, and Himanta Biswa Sarma continued as chief minister, according to Wikipedia. Polling took place on 9 April and counting on 4 May. The majority mark is 64 seats, so the party won a majority on its own, and the NDA as a whole won a two-thirds majority and a third consecutive term.
The seat table is clear. The BJP won 82 seats, the Congress 19, which is a loss of 10 from 2021, the Asom Gana Parishad 10, the Bodoland People’s Front 10, the Raijor Dal 2, the AIUDF 2 and the Trinamool Congress 1. The NDA, which includes the BJP, the AGP, the BPF and a fourth party, therefore has 102 of the 126 seats on the basis of the BJP and its two named allies, as India TV’s live report also stated.
The vote shares show the strength of the winning alliance. The NDA received 48.02 per cent of the votes, of which the BJP alone had 37.81 per cent, the AGP 6.48 per cent and the BPF 3.73 per cent. The opposition alliance called the Asom Sonmilito Morcha received 35.95 per cent, of which the Congress had 29.84 per cent, the Raijor Dal 2.68 per cent and the Asom Jatiya Parishad 2.52 per cent. Other parties and independents shared the remaining 16.04 per cent.
The opposition alliance was broad. According to the page, the Asom Sonmilito Morcha consisted of the Congress, the Raijor Dal, the Asom Jatiya Parishad, the CPI(M) and the CPI(ML) Liberation, while the NDA had the BJP, AGP, BPF and the Rabha Hasong Joutha Mancha. Parties that contested outside both alliances included the AIUDF, the Trinamool Congress, the UPPL, the JMM, the AAP, the CPI and the NPP.
Turnout rose. It was 85.96 per cent, which is 3.54 percentage points higher than in 2021, among 2.50 crore registered voters, according to the page. The page describes the result as a landslide victory for the NDA and as the lowest tally of seats ever won by the Congress in the state.
Himanta Biswa Sarma was reported to have continued in the post, and a biography of him is available among IndiaX24’s earlier articles, which covers his move from the Congress to the BJP. The sources reviewed for this article do not describe his swearing-in date or his new cabinet.
The sources also do not discuss the issues of the campaign. Assam’s politics has been shaped by questions about citizenship, immigration and land, and the Wikipedia page was too long to review completely, so the explanations for the result that it may contain are not reported here.
In Assam, the BJP-led alliance governs for a third term, and the Congress remains the largest opposition party with 19 seats.
The numbers show a very large majority for the ruling alliance and a fragmented opposition, which means the government will not depend on any single partner for its majority.
Featured image: The Assam Secretariat at Dispur (file photo, 2008). Photo by Mozzworld, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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