Guwahati: Congress retained its supremacy in Assam winning three of the five seats declared so far and leading in seven others while the AGP and BJP have won one seat each.

Lottery baron Mani Kumar Subba of Congress retained the Tezpur constituency for the third consecutive term defeating Padma Hazarika of AGP by 70,445 votes.

Congress, however, suffered a major set back in Dibrugarh, a seat which it had never lost since the first elections in 1952, with its State unit president and prominent tea tribe leader Paban Singh Ghatowar relegated to the third position behind AGP's Sarbananda Sonowal and BJP's Kamakhya Prasad Tassa.

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Sonowal, a former All Assam Students' Union president and a sitting AGP MLA, defeated Tassa, a former general secretary Assam Tea Tribes Students' Association (ATTSA) by 17,208 votes.

Congress wrested the reserved Autonomous District (ST) constituency from four time and sitting MP Dr Jayanta Rongpi who was pushed to the third position by Elwin Teron of Autonomous State Demand Committee.

BJP retained the Nagaon seat where sitting MP Rajen Gohai defeated Congress vice-president Bishnu Prasad by 31,350 votes.

Congress retained Karimganj constituency in Barak Valley where Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya defeated Parimal Suklabaidya (BJP) by 92,404 votes.