Burwan (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Burwan
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Burwan Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Burwan Burwan (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 23°56′27″N87°56′06″E / 23.94083°N 87.93500°E / 23.94083; 87.93500 Coordinates: 23°56′27″N87°56′06″E / 23.94083°N 87.93500°E / 23.94083; 87.93500
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Murshidabad
Constituency No	67
Type	Reserved for SC
Lok Sabha constituency	10. Baharampur
Electorate (year)	169,158 (2011) [1] 194,415 (2016) [2] 217,500 (2021) [3]

Burwan (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (also spelt Barwan) is an assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes. It was an open seat earlier.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 67 Burwan (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) covers Biprasekhar, Burwan I, Burwan II, Kharjuna, Kuli, Kurunnorun, Panchthupi, Sabaldaha, Sabalpur, Sahora and Sundarpur gram panchayats of Burwan community development block and Gadda, Jajan and Gundiria gram panchayats of Bharatpur I community development block. ^[4]

Burwan (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 10 Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[4]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Burwan Khargram	Satyendra Chandra Ghosh Moulik	Indian National Congress [5]
	Burwan Khargram	Sudhir Mondal	Indian National Congress [5]
1957		No seat	[6]
1962		No seat	[7]
1967	Burwan	Amalendralal Roy	Revolutionary Socialist Party [8]
1969		Amalendralal Roy	Revolutionary Socialist Party [9]
1971		Sunil Mohan Ghosh Moulik	Indian National Congress [10]
1972		Sunil Mohan Ghosh Moulik	Indian National Congress [11]
1977		Amalendralal Roy	Revolutionary Socialist Party [12]
1982		Amalendralal Roy	Revolutionary Socialist Party [13]
1987		Amalendralal Roy	Revolutionary Socialist Party [14]
1991		Debabrata Banerjee	Revolutionary Socialist Party [15]
1996		Debabrata Banerjee	Revolutionary Socialist Party [16]
2001		Amalendralal Roy	Revolutionary Socialist Party [17]
2006		Biswanath Banerjee	Revolutionary Socialist Party [18]
2011		Protima Rajak	Indian National Congress [19]
2016		Protima Rajak	Indian National Congress
2021		Jiban Krishna Saha	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2011

In the 2011 election, Protima Rajak of Congress defeated her nearest rival Binoy Sarkar of RSP.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Burwan (SC) constituency ^{[19] [20]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Protima Rajak	66,304	47.09	-1.60#
	RSP	Binoy Sarkar	65,688	46.65	-1.36
	BJP	Sukhnen Kumar Bagdi	8,809	6.26
Turnout			140,801	83.31
	INC gain from RSP		Swing	-0.24#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. Considering the Congress vote percentage alone in 2006, the swing was +5.37%.

1977–2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections ^[18] Biswanath Banerjee of RSP won the Barwan assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Arit Majumdar of Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Amalendralal Roy of RSP defeated Tapas Dasgupta of Congress in 2001. ^[17] Debabrata Banerjee of RSP defeated Ali Hossain Mondal of Congress in 1996, ^[16] and Sudip Mohan Ghosh Moulik of Congress in 1991. ^[15] Amalendra Roy of RSP defeated Gadadar Ghosh of Congress in 1987, ^[14] Ali Hossain Mondal of Congress in 1982, ^[13] and Sunil Mohan Ghosh Moulik of Congress in 1977. ^{[12] [21]}

1951–1972

Sunil Mohan Ghosh Moulik of Congress won in 1972 ^[11] and 1971. ^[10] Amalendra Lal Roy of RSP won in 1969 ^[9] and 1967. ^[8] The Burwan seat was not there in 1962 ^[7] and 1957. ^[6] In independent India's first election in 1951 Burwan Khargram was a joint seat Satyendra Chandra Ghosh Moulik and Sudhir Mondal, both of Congress, jointly won the Burwan Khargram seat. ^[5]

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