The Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies have won an overwhelming majority in the Assam state legislative assembly elections, taking 102 of 126 seats and consolidating the party's grip on the state for a third consecutive term.
The BJP itself secured 82 seats. Coalition partners Asom Gana Parishad and the Bodoland People's Front each won ten, with smaller regional outfits taking the remainder of the alliance haul. The Indian National Congress, the principal opposition, finished a distant second.
Senior party officials said a new chief minister would be selected from among the newly elected MLAs over the coming days. The post had been vacant since outgoing chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma signalled before the campaign that he would not seek another term.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the result as "a clear endorsement" of policies on infrastructure, citizenship verification and the Brahmaputra valley flood-management programme. Opposition leaders attributed the scale of the loss to fragmentation of the anti-BJP vote across multiple regional parties.
Turnout reached just over 78 per cent across the state, slightly higher than in the 2021 election. Election Commission of India officials said no significant law-and-order incidents had been reported during polling, despite tensions in some Bodoland Territorial Region constituencies.
The Assam result strengthens the BJP's position ahead of state contests in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, where the party hopes to break or expand its presence later this year.