Manikchak (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

This article is about the Vidhan Sabha constituency in West Bengal, India. For 1 its namesake community development block, see Manikchak. For 2 its namesake village, see Manikchak, Malda.

Manikchak
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Manikchak Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Manikchak Manikchak (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 25°03′45″N87°54′33″E / 25.06250°N 87.90917°E / 25.06250; 87.90917 Coordinates: 25°03′45″N87°54′33″E / 25.06250°N 87.90917°E / 25.06250; 87.90917
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Malda
Constituency No	49
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	8. Maldaha Dakshin
Electorate (year)	174,680 (2011) [1] 219,002 (2016) [2] 253,353 (2021) [3]
Government
• CurrentMLA	Sabitri Mitra (AITC)

Manikchak (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 49 Manikchak (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Manikchak community development block, and Milki, Fulbaria and Sovanagar gram panchayats of English Bazar community development block. ^[4]

Manikchak (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 8 Maldaha Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[4] It was earlier part of Malda (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Manikchak	Pashupati Jha	Indian National Congress [5]
1957		No seat [6]
1962		Sowrindra Mohan Misra	Indian National Congress [7]
1967		R.S.Singhi	Swatantra Party [8]
1969		Arun Chandra Jha	Indian National Congress [9]
1971		Jokhilal Mandal	Indian National Congress [10]
1972		Jokhilal Mandal	Indian National Congress [11]
1977		Subodh Choudhary	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
1982		Jokhilal Mandal	Indian National Congress [13]
1987		Jokhilal Mandal	Indian National Congress [14]
1991		Subodh Choudhary	Communist Party of India Marxist [15]
1996		Ram Probesh Mondal	Indian National Congress [16]
2001		Asima Chowdhuri	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [17]
2006		Asima Chowdhuri	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [18]
2011		Sabitri Mitra	All India Trinamool Congress [19]

Election results

2021

In the 2021 elections, Sabitri Mitra of All India Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Gour Chandra Mandal of BJP by 33,878 votes. ^[3]

Winner : Sabitri Mitra

2011

In the 2011 elections, Sabitri Mitra of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Ratna Bhattacharya of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Manikchak constituency ^{[19] [20]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sabitri Mitra	64,641	46.20	+4.23#
	CPI (M)	Ratna Bhattacharya	58,424	41.75	-2.54
	BJP	Dipankar Panday	8,003	5.72
	IPFB	Lutpha Khatub	5,194	3.71
	BSP	Chanchala Karmakar	3,668
Turnout			139,930	80.14
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing	+6.77#

Ramprabesh Mandal, who had filed his nomination as an Independent candidate was a rebel Congress candidate. He withdrew on the last day for withdrawal of nominations. ^[21]

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

1977–2006

In the 2006 ^[18] and 2001 ^[17] state assembly elections, Asima Chowdhuri of CPI(M) won the Manikchak assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Ram Probesh Mondal of Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Ram Probesh Mondal of Congress defeated Subodh Choudhary of CPI(M) in 1996. ^[16] Subodh Choudhary of CPI(M) defeated Ram Probesh Mondal of Congress in 1991 ^[15] Jokhilal Mandal of Congress in 1987. ^[14] Jokhilal Mandal of Congress defeated Subodh Choudhary of CPI(M) in 1982. ^[13] Subodh Choudhary of CPI(M) defeated Jokhilal Mandal of Congress in 1977. ^{[12] [22]}

1951–1972

Jokhilal Mandal of Congress won in 1972 ^[11] and 1971. ^[10] Arun Chandra Jha of Congress won in 1969. ^[9] R.S.Singhi of Swatantra Party won in 1967. ^[8] Sowrindra Mohan Misra of Congress won in 1962. ^[7] The Manikchak seat was not there in 1957. ^[6] In independent India's first election in 1951, Pashupati Jha of Congress won from the Manikchak seat. ^[5]

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