Overview
- The Election Commission declared Vijay Kumar Gupta the winner in Guwahati Central with 101,297 votes against AJP candidate Kunki Chowdhury’s 39,376, a margin of 61,921.
- Aam Aadmi Party’s Anurupa Dekaraja finished third with 1,939 votes, far behind the top two contenders.
- Guwahati Central is a newly created urban seat formed after Assam’s 2023 boundary redraw, bringing together city neighborhoods focused on traffic, drainage, waste, and school quality.
- Chowdhury, 27, ran as a first-time candidate from the Assam Jatiya Parishad within the Congress-led alliance, pitching a Gen-Z voice against the 70-year-old BJP veteran.
- The race drew wider attention after Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma targeted Chowdhury’s family over alleged beef consumption and related claims, which she denied, as early counts already showed her trailing by over 27,000 votes.