Borkhola Assembly constituency is one of the 126 constituencies in the Assam Legislative Assembly, formerly listed as Barkhola before the 2023 delimitation exercise standardised the spelling. It is a general (unreserved) seat in Cachar district in the Barak Valley and falls under the Silchar Lok Sabha segment.
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).
In the 2021 Assam Assembly elections, INC's Misbahul Islam Laskar won the constituency (then named Barkhola) with 64,433 votes, defeating BJP's Amalendu Das (57,402 votes) by a margin of 7,031 votes — a narrow but decisive Congress hold in a closely contested Barak Valley seat. In 2026, the constituency sees BJP's Kishore Nath challenge Congress's Amit Kumar Kalwar for the renamed 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.