Daspur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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Daspur
Vidhan Sabha constituency
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Daspur
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Daspur
Daspur (India)
Coordinates: 22°36′N87°43′E / 22.600°N 87.717°E / 22.600; 87.717 Coordinates: 22°36′N87°43′E / 22.600°N 87.717°E / 22.600; 87.717
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
State West Bengal
District Paschim Medinipur
Constituency No. 230
TypeOpen
Lok Sabha constituency 32. Ghatal
Electorate (year)242,252 (2011)

Daspur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in the Paschim Medinipur district, in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 230 Daspur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Daspur II community development block, and Basudevpur, Daspur I, Daspur II, Nandanpur I, Nandanpur II and Panchberia gram panchayats of Daspur I community development block. [1]

Daspur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 32 Ghatal (Lok Sabha constituency). [1] It was earlier part of Panskura (Lok Sabha constituency).

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Daspur
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Mamata Bhunia 114,75851.58-1.24
BJP Prasanta Bera87,91139.52+33.65
CPI (M) Dhruba Sekhar Mandal17,0457.66-31.79
SUCI(C) Jagadish Mondal Adhikary1,3870.62-0.26
NOTA None of the above 1,3680.61-0.37
Turnout 222,46476.91-1.49
AITC hold Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Daspur
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Mamata Bhunia 113,60352.82
CPI (M) Swapan Santra84,86439.45
BJP Dipak Kumar Pramanik12,6265.87
NOTA None of the above 2,1040.98
SUCI(C) Madhusudan Manna1,8990.88
Turnout 215,08678.40
AITC hold Swing

By-election 2012

In 2012, a by-election was necessitated by the death of sitting Trinamool Congress MLA Ajit Bhunia. Mamata Bhunia of AITC defeated her nearest rival Samar Mukherjee of CPI(M) by 18,928 votes. [2]

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Daspur [3] [4] [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Ajit Bhunia109,04854.76+4.08#
CPI (M) Sunil Adhikari84,12142.24-7.08
BJP Sujit Pain5,9663.00
Turnout 199,13582.2
AITC gain from CPI (M) Swing 11.16#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Sunil Adhikari of CPI(M) won the Daspur assembly seat, defeating his nearest rival, Ajit Bhunia of Trinamool Congress. Ajit Bhunia of Trinamool Congress defeated Chaittaranajan Mukhopadhyay of CPI(M). in 2001. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Chittaranjan Mukhopadhyay of CPI(M) defeated Jagannanth Goswami of Congress in 1996. Prabhas Phadikar of CPI(M) defeated Asit Bandopadhyay of Congress in 1991, Paresh Mondal of Congress in 1987, Sudhir Bera of Congress in 1982, and Bankim Chandra Sasmal of Janata Party in 1977. [6]

1951-1972

Sudhir Chandra Bera of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Mrigendra Bhattacharya of CPI(M) won in 1969. B.C.Sasmal of Congress won in 1967. Mrigendra Bhattacharya of CPI won in 1962. Bhabani Ranjan Panja of Congress won in 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951 the Daspur seat was won by Mrigendra Bhattacharya of CPI. [7]

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References

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