Tihu 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 Nalbari district in lower Assam and falls under the Mangaldoi Lok Sabha segment. Tihu is a small town and railway station, serving as a local centre for the surrounding agricultural communities of the Nalbari belt.
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, Tihu does not carry a direct 2021 result. Adjacent Dharmapur in 2021 saw BJP's Chandra Mohan Patowary win — who now contests the new Tihu seat for BJP in 2026, indicating this constituency draws partly from that geography. Congress fields Ratul Patowary for Tihu in 2026.
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.