Nowboicha Assembly constituency is one of the 126 constituencies in the Assam Legislative Assembly, created as a new Scheduled Castes (SC) reserved seat in the 2023 delimitation exercise. It is located in Lakhimpur district in north Assam and falls under the Lakhimpur Lok Sabha segment. The constituency covers rural, flood-prone terrain along the Brahmaputra basin with a significant SC electorate.
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 constituency, Nowboicha (SC) does not carry a direct 2021 result. Adjacent Lakhimpur in 2021 was won by BJP's Manab Deka with 70,387 votes by a narrow margin of 3,036 votes over INC's Joy Prakash — signalling the competitive nature of this Lakhimpur belt. In 2026, BJP fields Basanta Das (on AGP ticket) while Congress fields Joy Prakash Das — the same Congress candidate who narrowly lost in Lakhimpur in 2021 — for this new SC reserved 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.