Baghmundi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Baghmundi
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Baghmundi Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Baghmundi Baghmundi (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 23°12′0″N86°03′0″E / 23.20000°N 86.05000°E / 23.20000; 86.05000 Coordinates: 23°12′0″N86°03′0″E / 23.20000°N 86.05000°E / 23.20000; 86.05000
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Purulia
Constituency No.	240
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	35. Purulia
Electorate (year)	191,991 (2011)

Baghmundi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. This seat currently represented by Nepal Mahata in the West Bengal legislative assembly, right from its inception in 2011.The incumbent also represented its earlier version Jhalda for 10 years from 2001 to 2011. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 240 Baghmundi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Jhalda municipality; Jhalda I and Baghmundi community development blocks; Hetgugui and Sirkabad gram panchayats of Arsha community development block. ^[6]

Baghmundi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 35 Purulia (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[6]

The West Bengal political scenario has changed dramatically over the years. In the early years after independence it was a scene of fluctuating fortunes between the Congress and the Left wing parties, till the latter captured power in the late seventies. The United News of India in a candid analysis says, “The green surge swept Bengal to demolish the red bastion in 2011 Assembly elections… Moreover, as the Left still remained cornered in state politics, their neutralised voters are increasingly migrating to the BJP for a viable alternative.” ^[7]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Baghmundi	Sirish Chandra Banerjee	Lok Sewak Sangh [8] [9]
1951	Jhalda	Debendranath Mahato	Indian National Congress [10]
1957		Debendra Nath Mahato	Indian National Congress [11]
1962		Debendra Nath Mahato	Indian National Congress [12]
1967		C. Mahato	All India Forward Bloc [13]
1969		Debendra Nath Mahato	Indian National Congress [14]
1971		Kinkar Mahato	Indian National Congress [15]
1972		Kinkar Mahato	Indian National Congress [16]
1977		Satya Ranjan Mahato	All India Forward Block [17]
1982		Subhas Chandra Mahato	Indian National Congress [18]
1987		Satya Ranjan Mahata	All India Forward Bloc [19]
1991		Satya Ranjan Mahata	All India Forward Bloc [20]
1996		Satya Ranjan Mahata	All India Forward Bloc [21]
2001		Nepal Mahata	Independent [22]
2006		Nepal Mahata	Indian National Congress [23]
2011	Baghmundi	Nepal Mahata	Indian National Congress [24]
2016		Nepal Mahata	Indian National Congress [25] [26]
2021		Sushanta Mahato	All India Trinamool Congress [27] [28]

Election results

2021

West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election, 2021: Baghmundi ^{[27] [28]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Susanta Mahato	75,905	36.79	-5.24
	AJSU	Asutosh Mahato	61,936	30.02	+3,224
	INC	Nepal Mahato	51,046	24.74	-42.49
	AIFB	Debranjan Mahato	11,842	5.74
	AMB	Pashupati Mahato	2,000	0.97
	SUCI(C)	Mrityunjoy Singh Babu	1,188	0.58
	NOTA	None of the above	2,386	1.16
Turnout			206,303
	AITC gain from INC		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Baghmundi ^{[25] [26]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Nepal Mahata	88,707	47.16
	AITC	Samir Mahato	80,120	42.59
	BJP	Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato	11,219	5.96
	AMB	Pasupati Mahato	2,047	1.09
	AJSU	Subal Prasad	1,863	0.99
	Independent	Rabindra Nath Sin Mura	1,102	0.59
	SUCI(C)	Mrityunjoy Singh Babu	1,016	0.54
	NOTA	None of the above	2,029	1.08
Majority
Turnout			188,103	84.18
	INC hold		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Baghmundi ^{[29] [30] [31]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Nepal Mahata	77,458	49.48	-2.00
	AIFB	Mangal Mahato	59,814	38.21	+2.33
	AJSU	Rakesh Mahato	10,797	6.90
Turnout			156,549	81.54
	INC hold		Swing	-4.33#

.# Swing calculated on Congress and Forward Bloc vote percentages in 2006 in the now defunct Jhalda constituency.

1951

While in 2011 Baghmundi is a newly created constituency in West Bengal, it was there in independent India's first election in 1951. The areas now part of Purulia district were then part of Bihar. Sirish Chandra Banerjee of Lok Sewak Sangh won the Baghmundi seat. ^[3]

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