Ausgram Assembly constituency

Ausgram
Constituency No. 273 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Ausgram Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Lok Sabha constituency	Bolpur
Established	1951
Total electors	195,953
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Abhedananda Thander
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Ausgram is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes (SC).

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 273 Ausgram (SC) assembly seat covers Ausgram I and Ausgram II CD Blocks, and Guskara municipality. ^[1]

Ausgram assembly segment is part of No. 41 Bolpur (Lok Sabha constituency) ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1951	Kanai Lal Das		Indian National Congress
	Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay
1957	Kanai Lal Das
1962	Manoranjan Bakshi		Independent politician
1967	Krishna Chandra Halder		Communist Party of India
1969
1971	Sridhar Malik
1972
1977
1982
1987	Sreedhar Malik
1991
1996	Kartick Chandra Bag
2001
2006
2011	Basudeb Mete
2016	Abhedananda Thander		All India Trinamool Congress
2021

Election results

2026

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Ausgram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC
	BJP
	LF
	INC
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

2021

In the 2021 election, Abhedananda Thander of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kalita Maji of BJP.

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Ausgram (SC) constituency ^{[2] [3]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Abhedananda Thander	100,392	46.25	0.31
	BJP	Kalita Maji	88,577	40.80	33.34
	CPI(M)	Chanchal Kumar Majhi	20,399	9.40
	NOTA	None of the above	4,039	1.86
	SUCI(C)	Manasa Mete	1,972	0.91
	BSP	Sridam Goldar	1,701	0.78
Turnout			217,080
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Abhedananda Thander of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Basudeb Mete of CPI (M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Ausgram (SC) constituency ^{[4] [5]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Abhedananda Thander	90,450	45.94	new
	CPI(M)	Basudeb Mete	84,198	42.76	9.45
	BJP	Sanatan Maji	14,686	7.46
	NOTA	None of the above	3,817	1.94
	Independent	Kalpana Ankure	2,263	1.15
	SUCI(C)	Manasa Mete	1,485	0.75
Turnout			196,899	87.52
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Basudeb Mete of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Chanchal Kumar Mondol of Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Ausgram ^{[6] [7] [8]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Basudeb Mete	90,863	52.21	14.07
	INC	Chanchal Kumar Mondal	67,767	38.94	10.42
	BJP	Shanti Karmakar	7,663	4.40
	Independent	Nihar Kumar Hazra	3,989
	SUCI(C)	Manasa Mate	2,321
	JDP	Bireswar Maji	1,445
Turnout			174,048	88.82
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	-24.49#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages in 2006 taken together.

1951-1972

Sridhar Malik of CPI(M) won the seat in 1972 and 1971. Krishna Chandra Halder of CPI(M) won it in 1969 and 1967. In 1962, it was won by Kanai Lal Das of Congress. In 1952, the first year when this constituency was formed, and 1957, it had two seats, one general and the other reserved for SC. From 1962, it became a constituency reserved for SC. In 1951, the winners were Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay and Kanai Lal Das both of Congress. ^[9]

1977-2006

Kartick Chandra Bag of CPI(M) won the Ausgram (SC) assembly seat in 2006, 2001 and 1996, defeating his nearest rivals Chhaya Chowdhuri of Trinamool Congress, Sukumar Mondal of Trinamool Congress and Sukumar Saha of Congress, in the respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sreedhar Malik of CPI(M) won the seat in 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977, defeating his nearest rivals, Chhaya Rani Chowdhury of Congress, Biswambhar Mondal of Congress, Chanchal Kumar Modal of Congress and Madan Lohar of Janata Party, in the respective years. ^[10]

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
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3. "Assembly Election Result 2021 – West Bengal, Ausgram". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
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6. "Ausgram". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
7. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Ausgram. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
8. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). Ausgram. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
9. "Statistical Reports of Assembly Elections". General Election Results and Statistics. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
10. "267 - Ausgram Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 August 2010.