Thongju is an Assembly constituency of the Imphal East district in Manipur. There were a total of 30,135 voters in the Thongju constituency during the 2017 Assembly elections. This year, the voting is scheduled in the first phase i.e. on February 28, 2022. In 2017, Bharatiya Janata Party's Thongam Biswajit Singh had won the seat. The BJP has again fielded him from the seat. The Thongju Assembly constituency is a general seat, i.e. it is not reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs) or Scheduled Tribes (STs). Also, this Assembly seat falls under the Inner Manipur Lok Sabha constituency, which is represented by Minister of State for External Affairs and Education Rajkumar Ranjan Singh.