Until 1972, Tripura was a Union Territory. The 1967 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place on 21 February 1967 in a single phase to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 30 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India.

Indian National Congress led by Sachindra Lal Singh, won 27 seats and formed a Government in Tripura union territory.

Highlights Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on February 21, 1967. The election were held in a single phase for all the 30 assembly constituencies.

Participating Political Parties Num Partytype Abbreviation Party National Parties 1 BJS Bharatiya Jan Sangh 2 CPI Communist Party of India 3 CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist) 4 INC Indian National Congress 5 SSP Sanghata Socialist Party Independents 6 IND Independent

No. of Constituencies Type of Constituencies GEN SC ST Total No. of Constituencies 18 3 9 30 Electors Men Women Total No.of Electors 605,934 605,934 No.of Electors who Voted 450,334 450,334 Polling Percentage 74.32% 74.32% Performance of Women Candidates Men Women Total No.of Contestants 86 01 87 Elected 30 00 30

Result

Results by party Party SeatsContested SeatsWon Votes Vote % 1963 Seats Indian National Congress 30 27 251,345 57.95% No data available Communist Party of India (Marxist) 16 2 93,739 21.61% No data available Communist Party of India 7 1 34,562 7.97% No data available Bharatiya Jana Sangh 5 0 1,506 0.35% No data available Sanghata Socialist Party 1 0 83 0.02% No data available Independents 28 0 52,457 12.10% No data available Total 87 30 433,692 Source: ECI

Results by constituency Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituencyAssembly ConstituencyTurnout WinnerRunner UpMargin #k Names% Candidate Party Votes% Candidate Party Votes%1Mohanpur74.%Pram D. Ranjan Dasgupta8,66655.27%N. Chakravorty6,88243.89%1,7842Agartala Sadar I76.68%B. B. Das8,11760.38%M. K. Roy3,46825.8%4,6493Agartala Sadar II73.96%S. Singh11,44564.42%S. R. Chanda5,83732.85%5,6084Agartala Sadar III75.57%T. M. D. Gupta8,87257.18%S. S. Gupta5,28334.05%3,5895Agartala Town73.11%K. Bhattacharjee6,85354.26%A. Islam4,25033.65%2,6036Old Agartala81.04%J. K. Majumder8,67254.6%Sailesh Chandra Some7,21145.4%1,4617Uttar Debendranagar75.32%A. D. Barma10,55972.09%B. P. D. Barma4,08827.91%6,4718Takarjala67.79%M. D. Barma6,94554.84%B. D. Barma5,72045.16%1,2259Bishalgarh74.02%U. L. Singh8,07255.59%B. M. Saha6,13642.26%1,93610Charilam73.27%A. Debbarma7,23050.68%K. C. D. Barma7,03749.32%19311Sonamura North82.1%Debendra Kishore Chowdhury8,80774.%D. C. S. Gupta2,43920.49%6,36812Sonamura South83.28%B. Ali7,88865.58%B. R. Pal4,14034.42%3,74813Salgarh74.8%E. A. Chowdhury8,42471.09%N. C. Ghose2,33519.7%6,08914Radhakishorpur72.54%N. K. Sarkar10,87867.87%Sunil Krishna Das3,11719.45%7,76115Belonia77.29%U. K. Roy10,50260.05%Jitendra Lal Das6,69138.26%3,81116Muhuripur73.%S. C. Chowdhury11,58476.29%Hlura Aung Mog2,87518.93%8,70917Sabroom77.56%A. Mag11,63869.93%A. Mag4,64227.89%6,99618Birganj64.36%B. B. Riyan6,15255.49%R. K. D. Barma4,34839.22%1,80419Dumburnagar61.5%R. C. D. Rankhal5,22156.72%S. D. Barma3,98443.28%1,23720Teliamura73.53%P. K. Das11,55864.6%A. C. Sarker5,43530.38%6,12321Kalyanpur89.71%Bidya Chandra Debbarma14,33062.57%N. K. D. Barma8,57237.43%5,75822Khowai85.14%S. C. Datta10,96461.06%J. Bhattacharjee6,65037.03%4,31423Kamalpur79.11%K. C. Das10,14163.07%N. K. Namadas5,93936.93%4,20224Kulaihower58.9%G. Dewan8,40657.05%D. D. Barma6,32942.95%2,07725Fatikroy69.68%Radhika Ranjan Gupta7,75055.9%Rakhal Raj Kumar5,75741.52%1,99326Kailashahar81.63%M. L. Bhowmik8,19051.09%B. Majumder7,84148.91%34927Dharmanagar South74.81%M. Nath8,35464.12%R. K. Nath4,67435.88%3,68028Kanchanpur57.06%R. P. Chowdhury5,19264.63%Mandida Reang2,48530.93%2,70729Dharmanagar North73.85%B. B. Banerjee6,46752.59%D. Chakraborty3,43727.95%3,03030Kadamtala68.91%A. Wazid5,89047.35%S. D. Nath5,85647.08%34

Government formation Indian National Congress,(INC) won a majority of the 30 seats in the assembly. Sachindra Lal Singh of the INC continued as Chief Minister.

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