Assam’s BJP Thumping Victory Is the Most Expected Result in the 2026 State Elections

The BJP Has Won Assam Convincingly Before and the Exit Polls Project a Third Successive Victory

The Projection

GUWAHATI — Exit polls project a ‘thumping victory’ for the BJP in Assam, with Congress expected to remain a distant second. The BJP has won Assam in two previous cycles and has built the organizational infrastructure and the electoral coalition in the state that produces the specific competitive dominance that BJP wins by large margins. The projection is the most expected of the five state results: the BJP’s Assam coalition — Hindu nationalist appeal, tea plantation worker constituencies, anti-Congress sentiment — has produced convincing results before and the exit polls suggest it is producing a third.

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who was a senior Congress leader before defecting to the BJP in 2015, has been the specific political figure whose organizational capacity and political intelligence built the BJP’s dominant position in Assam. The migration issue — illegal migration from Bangladesh, which shares a long border with Assam and which has been politically contentious in the state for decades — is the issue that Sarma has campaigned on most effectively and that the BJP uses in West Bengal as well.

The Migration Issue

The illegal migration issue in Assam has a specific local history that predates the BJP’s current political use: the Assam Agitation of 1979-1985 was a mass movement against illegal immigration from Bangladesh, producing the Assam Accord of 1985 that committed to identifying and deporting illegal migrants. The accord’s implementation has been contested for four decades. The National Register of Citizens (NRC) process that the BJP government undertook to identify who is and is not a legitimate Assam resident has been legally and politically complicated.

The NE India Pattern

Assam’s BJP dominance reflects a broader Northeast India pattern: the BJP and its regional allies have built governing coalitions across most of the eight northeastern states, making the region a BJP stronghold that the national electoral map now takes for granted. The Congress that once dominated northeastern state politics has lost ground consistently across the region over the past decade. Assam’s thumping BJP victory is both a state-level story and a regional-level confirmation of that pattern.

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