Ketugram (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Ketugram
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Ketugram Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Ketugram Ketugram (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 23°42′N88°03′E / 23.700°N 88.050°E / 23.700; 88.050
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Constituency No.	271
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	Bolpur (SC)
Electorate (year)	197,770 (2011)

Ketugram (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The seat was earlier reserved for scheduled castes but is an open seat from 2011.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission No. 271 Ketugram assembly constituency covers Ketugram I and Ketugram II blocks and Koshigram and Srikhanda gram panchayats of Katwa I block. ^[1]

Ketugram (SC) assembly constituency was earlier a part of Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency). As per orders of the Delimitation Commission Ketugram assembly constituency is part of No. 41 Bolpur (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

The West Bengal political scenario has changed dramatically over the years. In the early years after independence it was a scene of fluctuating fortunes between the Congress and the Left wing parties, till the latter captured power in the late seventies. The United News of India in a candid analysis says, “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	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Tarapada Bandopadhyay	Hindu Mahasabha [3]
1957	Sankar Dass and Abdus Sattar	Indian National Congress [4]
1962	Sreemohan Thakur	Communist Party of India [5]
1967	P.Mandal	Indian National Congress [6]
1969	Ramgoti Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1971	Nirmal Chandra Mandal	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
1972	Prabhakar Mandal	Indian National Congress [9]
1977	Raicharan Majhi	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1982	Raicharan Majhi	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
1987	Raicharan Majhi	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
1991	Raicharan Majhi	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
1996	Tamal Majhi	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
2001	Tamal Chandra Majhi	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [15]
2006	Tamal Chandra Majhi	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [16] [17]
2011	Sekh Sahonawez	All India Trinamool Congress [18]
2016		All India Trinamool Congress [19] [20]
2021		All India Trinamool Congress [21] [22]

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Ketugram ^{[21] [22]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sekh Sahonawez	100,226	46.55	+12.05
	BJP	Anadi Ghosh (Mathura)	87,543	40.66	+426.07
	CPI (M)	Mizanul Kabir (Dhiraj)	20,092	9.33	-75.11
	BSP	Dr. Manik Chandra Pradhan	2,293	1.06
	SUCI(C)	Satya Narayan Mondal	1,543	0.72
	NOTA	None of the above	3,620	1.68
Turnout			215,317
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Ketugram ^{[19] [20]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sekh Sahonawez	89,441	46.2
	CPI (M)	Abdul Kadar Syed	80,712	41.69
	BJP	Bankubihari Ghosh	16,641	8.6
	SUCI(C)	M.H.Munsi (Kachi Munsi)	2,391	1.24
	NOTA	None of the above	4,414	2.28
Majority
Turnout			193,599	83.34
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Ketugram ^{[23] [24] [25]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sk. Sahanawez	77,323	45.70	+5.04#
	CPI (M)	Syed Abdul Kader	75,724	44.75	-14.64
	BJP	Debobrato Bose	11,051	6.53
	Independent	Kazi Safikur Rahaman	5,109
Turnout			169.207	85.56
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing	+19.68#

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

1977-2006

Tamal Chandra Majhi of CPI(M) won the Ketugram (SC) assembly seat defeating Amar Ram of Congress in 2006 and 2001, and Narayan Chandra Poddar of Congress in 1996. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Raicharan Majhi of CPI(M) defeated Chand Kumar Saha of BJP in 1991, Prabahakar Mandal of Congress in 1987, Lal Mohan Saha of Congress in 1982 and Prabhakar Mandal of Congress in 1977. ^[26]

1951-1972

Prabakar Mondal of Congress won the Ketugram seat in 1972. Nirmal Chandra Mandal of CPI(M) won in 1971. Ramgati Mandal of CPI(M) won in 1969. P.Mandal of Congress won in 1967. Sree Mohan Thakur of CPI won in 1962. Ketugram had a joint seat in 1957. It was won by Sankar Dass and Abdus Sattar, both of Congress. In independent India's first election in 1951 Tarapada Bandopadhya of Hindu Mahasabha won the Ketugram seat. ^[27]

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