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2022 Manipur Legislative Assembly election

Legislative Assembly elections were held in Manipur from 28 February to 5 March 2022 in two phases, to elect 60 members of the Manipur Legislative Assembly. The results declared on 10 March 2022. The newly constituted assembly was named 12th Manipur Legislative Assembly. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 32 out of 60 seats and secured a comfortable majority. N. Biren Singh was re-elected as the chief minister and continued in his office, forming a new ministry. In September 2022, 5 legislators of JD(U) "merged" with BJP taking its total strength to 37 in the Assembly.

After the eruption of the Kuki–Meitei ethnic conflict on 3 May 2023, causing the displacement of over 60,000 people, chief minister Biren Singh was unable to control the violence and resigned on 9 February 2025. President's rule was declared on 13 February, and the legislature was put in suspended animation. Later on 4 February 2026, BJP leader Yumnam Khemchand Singh was sworn in as the new chief minister.

In the 2017 assembly elections the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 21 seats in a house of 60, and formed a government in alliance with National People's Party (NPP), Naga People's Front (NPF) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP). N. Biren Singh won the contest for the chief minister, outdoing his rival Thongam Biswajit Singh, the first BJP legislator in the Assembly.

The support of NPP, a partner in the National Democratic Alliance as well as North East Democratic Alliance, was considered key. Its four MLAs were given ministerial posts, with BJP limiting itself to two ministerial posts. By 2020, the relationship between BJP and NPP soured, and the NPP legislators withdrew support. Nevertheless, CM Biren Singh managed to weather the storm by acquiring a few Congress legislators and getting a few others disqualified. BJP's candidate for Rajya Sabha, titular king Leishemba Sanajaoba, won the election, beating his Congress rival T. Mangibabu. Subsequently, NPP returned to the fold of the ruling coalition with reduced influence.

CM Biren Singh also held his ground against his internal rival Biswajit Singh, and acquired three Congress legislators including Govindas Konthoujam, its state unit president. Biren Singh was in a strong position ahead of the polls. He was seen as being friendly towards the hill tribals, and also won the favour of the majority Meitei community by achieving the Inner Line Permit system for Manipur.

The tenure of Manipur Legislative Assembly was scheduled to end on 19 March 2022.

The election schedule was announced |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/elections/assembly-election-2022-date-check-complete-polling-schedule-for-uttar-pradesh-uttarakhand-goa-manipur-punjab-101641639532618.html |access-date=8 January 2022 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en |archive-date=8 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108120002/https://www.hindustantimes.com/elections/assembly-election-2022-date-check-complete-polling-schedule-for-uttar-pradesh-uttarakhand-goa-manipur-punjab-101641639532618.html |url-status=live }} However, the election dates were postponed from 27 to 28 February for Phase I, and 3 to 5 March for Phase II.

S.No.	Poll event	Phase
Date for Nominations	1 February 2022	4 February 2022
Last date for filing nomination	8 February 2022	11 February 2022
Date for Scrutiny of nomination	9 February 2022	14 February 2022
Last date for withdrawal of nomination	11 February 2022	16 February 2022
Date of poll	28 February 2022	5 March 2022

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
1.	Bharatiya Janata Party			Nongthombam Biren Singh		60	57	3

United Progressive Alliance

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
1.	Indian National Congress			Okram Ibobi Singh		53	50	3
2.	Communist Party of India			L. Sotin Kumar		2	1	1

Naga People's Front

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
1.	Naga People's Front			Losii Dikho		10	10	0

National People's Party (India)

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
1.	National People's Party			Yumnam Joykumar Singh		38	36	2

No.	Party	Leader	Seats contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
1.	Nationalist Congress Party	Sharad Pawar	8	6	2
2.	Janata Dal (United)	Hangkhanpau Taithul	38	37	1
3.	Shiv Sena	Uddhav Thackeray	9	9	0
4.	Republican Party of India (Athawale)	Ramdas Athawale	9	9	0
5.	Kuki People's Alliance	WL Hangshing	2	1	1

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Phase	Date	Seats	Districts	District Turnout (%)	Phase Turnout (%)
I	28 February 2022	38	Bishnupur	91.11	88.69
Pherzawl–Churachandpur	79.65
Imphal East	90.55
Imphal West	90.80
Kangpokpi	90.14
II	5 March 2022	22	Chandel–Tengnoupal	93.94	89.06
Jiribam	90.26
Senapati	88.16
Tamenglong–Noney	86.50
Thoubal–Kakching	91.09
Ukhrul	83.46

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Alliance	Party	Popular vote	Seats
	Bharatiya Janata Party	720,702	37.83	2.73	60	32	11
	National People's Party	321,303	17.3	12.19	38	7	3
		Indian National Congress	312,705	16.83	18.57	53	5	23
	Communist Party of India	1,032	0.06	0.68	2	0
	Total	322,691	16.89	19.25	54	5	23
	Janata Dal (United)	200,103	10.77	New	38	6	New
	Naga People's Front	150,209	8.09	0.89	9	5	1
	Republican Party of India	255,111	1.37		9	-
	Kuki People's Alliance	18,808	1.01		2	2	2
	Independents	94,333	5.08			3	2
	NOTA		0.56
Valid votes
Invalid votes
Votes cast/ turnout
Abstentions
Registered voters

Districts	Seats
7	1	2	1	0	0
10	1	1	0	0	1
4	2	0	0	0	0
4	1	1	4	0	0
2	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	3	0
1	1	0	0	1	3
1	1	0	0	1	0
3	0	2	0	0	1

Incumbent MLA's are highlighted with background color.

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