Guwahati Central Assembly constituency is one of the 126 constituencies in the Assam Legislative Assembly, created as a new seat in the 2023 delimitation exercise. It is located in Kamrup Metro district, covering the commercial and administrative core of Guwahati city, and falls under the Gauhati Lok Sabha constituency. The seat draws from urban and semi-urban neighbourhoods previously split across the Gauhati East, Gauhati West, and Dispur segments.
The main political parties in Assam include the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress, Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), Bodoland People's Front (BPF), United People's Party Liberal (UPPL), and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
As a newly created urban constituency, Guwahati Central does not carry a direct 2021 result. Its predecessor segments were solidly BJP in 2021: Gauhati East was won by BJP's Siddhartha Bhattacharya by 84,100 votes, and Dispur was held by BJP's Atul Bora. Gauhati West (now abolished) was held by AGP. In 2026, BJP fields Vijay Kumar Gupta while Congress fields Kunki Chowdhury (AJP) for this new city-centre seat.
The 2026 Assam Assembly elections will test Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's BJP-led government, which swept to power with a comfortable majority in 2021. With the opposition Congress-AIUDF combine seeking to consolidate anti-incumbency sentiment, every constituency will be a crucial battleground in deciding whether the state returns a second consecutive BJP government. Urban infrastructure, traffic management, flooding from the Brahmaputra, and the aspirations of Guwahati's growing urban middle class are expected to dominate the political agenda in 2026.