2025, Vol. 7, Issue 8, Part D

The Assam Panchayat Election 2025 marked a significant event in the state’s democratic process. This election was conducted to elect representatives at three levels of the Panchayati Raj system- Gaon Panchayat (GP), Anchalik Panchayat (AP), and Zilla Parishad (ZP). In this paper analyses the 2025 Assam’s Panchayat polls which were held in two phases across 27 districts of Assam on 2^nd and 7^th May 2025. The elections witnessed active participation from over 1.8 crore rural voters. According to state election data cited during vote counting, a total of 78,571 candidates contested for 26,808 Panchayat seats, distributed across four levels (All Phases). Phase 2 alone featured 29,608 candidates, with 1289 declared winners uncontested. The total numbers of voters were 18,014,913 including 9,060,640 males, 8,953,865 females and 408 others.