Rupahihat 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 Nagaon district in central Assam and falls under the Nowgong Lok Sabha segment. The constituency covers rural, agricultural communities in the heart of the Nagaon belt, known for paddy cultivation and a diverse mixed 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, Rupahihat does not carry a direct 2021 result. Adjacent Samaguri in 2021 was won by Congress's Rakibul Hussain with 81,123 votes by 26,098 votes over BJP — a constituency Hussain subsequently vacated for Parliament. In 2026, BJP's Jakir Hussain Faraji (on AGP ticket) contests against Congress's Nurul Huda for the new Rupahihat 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.