Dotma Assembly constituency is one of the 126 constituencies in the Assam Legislative Assembly, created as a new Scheduled Tribes (ST) reserved seat in the 2023 delimitation exercise. It is located in the Kokrajhar district within the Bodoland Territorial Region and falls under the Kokrajhar Lok Sabha constituency. The constituency draws from the Bodo-majority tribal belt of western Assam.
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, Dotma (ST) does not carry a direct 2021 result. The broader Kokrajhar belt in 2021 was split between UPPL and BPF — the two main Bodo political formations. Notably, former Kokrajhar West 2021 MLA Rabiram Narzary (who won for BPF in 2021) now contests Dotma on the BJP ticket in 2026, while Congress fields Gaurav Gogoi — making this a significant test of post-UPPL-BPF alliance realignment in the Bodoland area.
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.