26 seats 23 seats 11 15 | 37 8 Start date 2013 | |
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Winner Neiphiu Rio | ||
The Nagaland Legislative Assembly election of 2013 took place on 23 February 2013 to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in the state of Nagaland in India.
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Background
The mandate of the 11th Nagaland Legislative Assembly, formed after the Nagaland Legislative Assembly election, 2008, expired on 10 March 2013. Hence, the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly election was announced by the Election Commission of India.
After the scrutiny of the nomination papers put up by the candidates, 188 candidates in total were able to contest for a total of 60 seats.
Results
On 18 Jun 2014, 3 of the NCP MLAs defected to the BJP, leaving only one NCP MLA remaining in the assembly.
References
Nagaland Legislative Assembly election, 2013 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA