Jamuria (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Jamuria
Vidhan Sabha constituency
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Coordinates: 23°42′N87°05′E / 23.700°N 87.083°E / 23.700; 87.083 Coordinates: 23°42′N87°05′E / 23.700°N 87.083°E / 23.700; 87.083
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Paschim Bardhaman
Constituency No.	279
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	40. Asansol
Electorate (year)	175,237 (2011)

Jamuria (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 279 Jamuria assembly constituency covers Jamuria municipality, Jamuria community development block, and Ratibati gram panchayat of Raniganj CD Block. ^[1]

Jamuria assembly segment is part of No. 40 Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

The United News of India (UNI) has been candid about the second largest city and urban agglomeration in West Bengal (the area covered by the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency) after Kolkata that is a hub of coal mining and railway activity bordering Jharkhand. Asansol has seen, it writes, “a sustained hold over it by the CPI(M) since 1984. Before that it was a tale of fluctuating fortune for the CPI(M) and the Congress… However, as 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.” ^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1957	Jamuria	Amarendra Mondal	Praja Socialist Party [3]
1962		Amarendra Mondal	Indian National Congress [3]
1967		Tinkori Mondal	Samyukta Socialist Party [3]
1969		Amarendra Mondal	Indian National Congress [3]
1971		Durgadas Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [3]
1972		Amarendra Mondal	Indian National Congress [3]
1977		Bikash Chowdhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [4]
1982		Bikash Chowdhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [5]
1987		Bikash Chowdhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1991		Bikash Chowdhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1996		Pelab Kabi	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
2001		Pelab Kabi	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [9]
2006		Dhirajlal Hazra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2011		Jahanara Khan	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
2016		Jahanara Khan	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
2021		Hareram Singh	All India Trinamool Congress [12]

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Jamuria ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Hareram Singh	71,002	42.59	+4.30
	BJP	Tapas Kumar Roy	62,951	37.76	+13.57
	CPI (M)	Aishe Ghosh	24,818	14.89	-28.39
	BSP	Bhanu Pratap Sharma	2,409	1.45
	NOTA	None of the above	2,353	1.41
Majority			8,051	4.89
Turnout			1,66,933	75.39
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Jamuria ^{[13] [14] [15]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	Jahanara Khan	67,214	43.28	-9.54
	AITC	V. Sivadasan (Dasu)	59,457	38.29	-4.41
	BJP	Santosh Singh	22,040	14.19	+9.71
	NOTA	None of the above	3,018	1.94	+1.94
Majority			7,757	5.00
Turnout			1,55,401	78.05
	CPI (M) hold		Swing

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Jamuria ^{[13] [16] [17]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	Jahanara Khan	72,411	52.82	-15.98
	AITC	Prabhat Kumar Chatterjee	58,538	42.70	+14.91#
	BJP	Pramod Pathak	6,146	4.48
Majority			13,873	10.12
Turnout			1,37,161	78.24
	CPI (M) hold		Swing	-30.89#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly election, Dhirajlal Hazra of CPI (M) won the Jamuria assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Tapan Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001 and 1996, Pelab Kabi of CPI (M) defeated Shiudashan Nayar of Trinamool Congress and Santosh Adhikari of Congress respectively. In 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977, Bikash Chowdhury of CPI (M) defeated Tapas Banerjee of Congress, Biswanath Chakraborty of Congress, Pradip Bhattacharya of ICS and Chandra Sekhar of Congress in the respective years. ^[18]

1957-1972

The Jamuria seat was won by Amarendra Mondal of Congress in 1972, Durgadas Mondal of CPI (M) in 1971, Amarendra Mondal of Congress in 1969, Tinkori Mondal of Samyukta Socialist Party in 1967, and Amarendra Mondal of Congress in 1962. Amarendra Mondal representing Praja Socialist Party had won the Jamuria seat in 1957. That was the first year of the constituency and was much larger than what it was later, and included most of Barabani (Vidhan Sabha constituency). ^[3]

References

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