Egra Assembly constituency

Egra
Constituency No. 218 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Egra Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Medinipur
LS constituency	Medinipur
Established	1957
Total electors	219,092
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Tarun Maity
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Egra Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission No. 218, Egra Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Egra municipality, Egra I community development blocks, and Basudevpur, Deshbandhu, Dubda, Manjusree, Paniparul, Sarbaday and Bibekananda gram panchayats of Egra II community development block. ^[1]

Egra Assembly constituency is part of No. 34 Medinipur (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1] It was earlier part of Contai (Lok Sabha constituency).

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Egra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Tarun Maity	125,763	52.00
	BJP	Arup Das	107,272	45.00
	INC	Manas Kumar Kar Mahapatra	5,086	2.00
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,393	1.00
	SUCI	Jagadish Sau	1,303	1.00
Majority			18,491
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Egra ^{[2] [3]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Samares Das	113,334	52.00
	DSP(PC)	Shaikh Mahmud Hossain	87,378	40.10
	BJP	Minati Sur	13,002	6.00
	Socialist Unity Centre Of India (Communist)	Jagadis Sau	2,340	1.10
	Samajwadi Party	Gourishankar Raymahapatra	1,829	0.80
Turnout			2,17,883	(84.7%)
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Egra ^{[4] [5]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Samares Das	99,178	51.57	+1.46#
	DSP(PC)	Hrisikesh Paria	83,225	43.27	-3.61
	BJP	Minati Sur	6,358	3.31
	Independent	Durga Pada Mishra	3,565
Turnout			192,326	87.78
	AITC hold		Swing	5.07#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. 2009 by election not taken into consideration because of lack of sufficient data.

2009 by election

The bypoll to the Serampore occurred due to resignation of the sitting MLA of AITC, Sisir Adhikari, who was elected to the Indian Parliament from Kanthi on 16 May 2009.

West Bengal state assembly by election, 2009: Egra constituency ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Samares Das	72,403
	DSP(PC)	Prabodh Chandra Sinha	66,453
Turnout			138,856	86.46
	AITC hold		Swing

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the DSP vote percentage, in 2006. Data for comparison not available for the 2009 by-election.

2006

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Egra ^{[7] [8]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sisir Kumar Adhikari	67,786	48.00
	DSP(PC)	Prabodh Chandra Sinha	66,196	46.90
	INC	Samsul Alam Khan	2,964
	Independent	Jagadish Sau	2,921
	SPI	Ratan Sheet	1,334
Majority			1,590	(1.1%)
Turnout			1,41,278	(89.8%)
	AITC gain from DSP(PC)		Swing

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

1977-2009

In the 2009 byelection, necessitated by the election of the sitting MLA Sisir Adhikari to Parliament from Kanthi (Lok Sabha constituency), Samaresh Das of Trinamool Congress defeated Prabodh Chandra Sinha. ^{[9] [10]}

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Sisir Adhikari of Trinamool Congress won the 213 Egra assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Prabodh Chandra Sinha of DSP (PC). Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Prabodh Chandra Sinha, contesting as Independent or on CPI(M) symbol, won the Egra seat between 1982 and 2001, defeating Tapan Kanti Kar of Trinamool Congress in 2001, Sohan Jyoti Maiti of Congress in 1996, Tapan Kanti Kar of Congress in 1991, Kshitindra Mohan Sahoo of Congress in 1987 and Khan Samsul Alam of Congress in 1982. Prabodh Chandra Sinha representing Janata Party defeated Anandi Nandan Das of CPI(M) in 1977. ^[11]

1957-1972

Khan Samsul Alam of Congress won in 1972. Prabodh Chandra Sinha of PSP won in 1971. Bibhuti Pahari of PSP won in 1969 and 1967. Hrishikesh Chakraborty of Congress won in 1962. Bhuban Chandra Kar Mahapatra won in 1957. ^[12]

References

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8. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). Egra. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
9. "Results of bye – elections to the 31 (thirty one) Assembly Constituencies and 1(one) Lok Sabha Constituency" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
10. "Trinamool Blooms with Green". Contai Royals. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
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12. "Statistical Reports of Elections". General Election Results and Statistics. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2010.