Gazole Assembly constituency

Gazole
Constituency No. 44 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Gazole Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Malda
Lok Sabha constituency	Maldaha Uttar
Established	1951
Total electors	267,096
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Chinmoy Deb Barman
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2021

Gazole Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 44 Gazole Assembly constituency (SC) covers Gazole community development block. ^[1]

Gazole Assembly constituency is part of No. 7 Maldaha Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1951	Dharanidhar Sarkar		Communist Party of India
1957	No seat
1962	No seat
1967	D. Murmu		Indian National Congress
1969	Lakshman Saren
1971	Suphal Murmu		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1972	Benjamin Hembrom		Indian National Congress
1977	Suphal Murmu		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982
1987
1991	Debnath Murmu
1996
2001	Sadhu Tudu
2006
2011	Sushil Chandra Roy		Indian National Congress
2016	Dipali Biswas		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021	Chinmoy Deb Barman		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Gazole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Chinmoy Deb Barman	100,655	45.5	30.99
	AITC	Basanti Barman	98,857	44.69	11.74
	CPI(M)	Arun Kumar Biswas	13,950	6.31	37.03
	BSP	Sanatan Rishi	1,943	0.88	0.29
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,736	0.78	0.98
Majority			1,798	0.81	9.58
Turnout			2,21,214	82.82	2
	BJP gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Dipali Biswas of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Sushil Chandra Roy of Trinamool Congress.

2016 West Bengal state assembly election: Gazole ^{[2] [3]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Dipali Biswas	85,949	43.34	0.69
	AITC	Sushil Chandra Roy	65,347	32.95	New
	BJP	Sudhangsu Sarkar	28,768	14.51	9.25
	SP	Kamal Chandra Sarkar	4,313	2.17
	NOTA	None of the above	3,490	1.76	N/A
Majority			20,602	10.39	6.94
Turnout			1,98,327	84.82	1.84
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

Note- In 2016 election, the Indian National Congress supported CPIM in this seat.

2011

In the 2011 election, Sushil Chandra Roy of Congress defeated his nearest rival Gobinda Mondal of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Gazole (SC) constituency ^{[2] [4]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sushil Chandra Roy	74,654	46.10	7.44
	CPI(M)	Gobinda Mondal	69,070	42.65	4.78
	BJP	Prafulla Chandra Sarkar	8,514	5.26
	Independent	Pradip Kumar Sarkar	2,592
	SUCI(C)	Gautam Sarkar	2,186
	BSP	Kamal Chandra Sarkar	1,921
	CPI(ML)L	Manabendra Roy	1,695
	Independent	Partha Biswas	1,309
Majority			5,584	3.45
Turnout			161,941	86.66
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	12.22

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 ^[5] and 2001 ^[6] state assembly elections Sadhu Tudu of CPI(M) won the Gazole (ST) assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Jatin Hansda of Congress and Nabakumar Hembrom of Trinamool Congress respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Debnath Murmu of CPI(M) defeated Benjamin Hembrom of Congress in 1996 ^[7] and Nabakumar Hembram of Congress in 1991. ^[8] Suphal Murmu of CPI(M) defeated Nabakumar Hembram of Congress in 1987, ^[9] Benjamin Hembram of Congress in 1982, ^[10] and Shyan Murmu of Janata Party in 1977. ^{[11] [12]}

1951–1972

Benjamin Hembram of Congress won in 1972. ^[13] Suphal Murmu of CPI(M) won in 1971. ^[14] Lakshan Saren of Congress won in 1969. ^[15] D. Murmu of Congress won in 1967. ^[16] The Gazole seat did not exist in 1962 ^[17] and 1957. ^[18] In independent India's first election in 1951 Dharanidhar Sarkar of CPI won the Gazole seat. ^[19]

References

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