Maynaguri Assembly constituency

Maynaguri
Constituency No. 16 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Maynaguri Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Jalpaiguri
LS constituency	Jalpaiguri
Established	1951
Total electors	264,265
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kaushik Roy
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2021

Maynaguri is an assembly constituency in Jalpaiguri district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 16 Maynaguri Assembly constituency (SC) covers Mainaguri municipality and Maynaguri community development block, ^[1]

Maynaguri Assembly constituency is part of No. 3 Jalpaiguri (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Name of M.L.A.		Party Affiliation
1951	Surendranath Roy		Indian National Congress
1957	Jajneswar Roy
1962	Kamini Mohan Roy
1967	Jajneswar Roy
1969
1971	Bijoy Krishna Mohanta
1972
1977	Tarak Bandhu Roy		Revolutionary Socialist Party
1982
1987
1991	Nityananda Adhikari
1996	Bachchamohan Roy
2001
2006
2011	Ananta Deb Adhikari
2014 by-election			All India Trinamool Congress
2016
2021	Kaushik Roy		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election Results

2021 Election

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Maynaguri (SC) constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kaushik Roy	115,306	48.84	+34.25
	AITC	Manoj Roy	103,395	43.79	-4.06
	RSP	Naresh Chandra Roy	5,760	2.44	-28.85
	NOTA	None of the above	3,095	1.31	-0.76
	KPPU	Biswanath Roy	2,868	1.21	-0.62
	CPI(ML)L	Uday Shankar Adhikari	1,555	0.66	-0.15
	BSP	Ganesh Mandal	1,550	0.66	-0.20
	Independent	Bilash Sarkar	1,079	0.46
	SUCI(C)	Shyamal Roy	745	0.32
	AMB	Binay Sarkar	740	0.31	-0.39
Turnout			236,093	93.92	+4.88
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2016 Election

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Maynaguri (SC) constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ananta Deb Adhikari	100,837	47.85	-3.88
	RSP	Chaya Dey (Roy)	65,930	31.29	-3.86
	BJP	Biswajit Roy	30,742	14.59
	NOTA	None of the above	4,368	2.07	+0.46
	KPPU	Kausik Roy	3,856	1.83
	BSP	Amit Kumar Sarkar	1,818	0.86
	CPI(ML)L	Rupeswar Ray	1,701	0.81	-0.28
	AMB	Binay Sarkar	1,476	0.70
Turnout			210,728	89.04	-9.06
	AITC hold		Swing

2014 bye election

In the 2014 by election, Ananta Deb Adhikari of All India Trinamool Congress defeated Dinabandhu Roy (Palu) of Revolutionary Socialist Party by 31,790 votes. ^[2] The former RSP MLA switched over to Trinamool Congress and had to face election again. ^[3]

2014 West Bengal Legislative Assembly bye-election: Maynaguri (SC) constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ananta Deb Adhikari	99,185	51.73	+12.36
	RSP	Dinabandhu Roy (Paltu)	67,395	35.15	-13.56
	Independent	Animes Roy	10,938	5.90
	INC	Puranjan Sarker	8,488	4.43
	NOTA	None of the above	3,141	1.61
	Rashtriya Janadhikar Suraksha Party	Mohit Kumar Roy	2,242	1.17
	CPI(ML)L	Rupeswar Ray	2,082	1.09
	SUCI(C)	Suresh Chandra Roy	1,406	0.73
Turnout			194,877	98.10	+10.16
	AITC gain from RSP		Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Ananta Deb Adhikari of RSP defeated his nearest rival Juthika Roy Basunia of Trinamool Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Maynaguri (SC) constituency ^{[4] [5]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RSP	Ananta Deb Adhikari	84,887	48.71
	AITC	Juthika Roy Basunia	68,611	39.37	#
	BJP	Bibhas Chandra Paul	6,309	3.62
	Independent	Bharani Roy	5,100	2.93
	Independent	Dinesh Sinha	4,892	2.81
	CPI(ML)L	Haripada Ray Lashkar	2,259
	BSP	Santi Kumar Sarkar	2,218
Turnout			174,276	87.84
	RSP hold		Swing

# Trinamool Congress did not contest this seat in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006, ^[6] 2001 ^[7] and 1996 state assembly elections, ^[8] Bachchamohan Roy of RSP won the Maynaguri assembly seat (SC) defeating his nearest rivals Gokul Kumar Roy of BJP, Purnaprabha Barman of Trinamool Congress and Manmatha Ray Basunia of Congress respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Nityananda Adhikary of RSP defeated Manamatha Ray Basunia of Congress in 1991. ^[9] Tarak Bandhu Roy of RSP defeated Manmatha Ray Basunia of Congress in 1987, ^[10] Mridulendra Deb Rakshit of ICS in 1982 ^[11] and Bhabendra Nath Roy Hakim of Janata Party in 1977. ^{[12] [13]}

1957–1972

Bijoy Krishna Mohanta of Congress won in 1972 ^[14] and 1971. ^[15] Jajneswar Roy of Congress won in 1969 ^[16] and 1967. ^[17] Kamini Mohan Roy of Congress won in 1962. ^[18] Janjneswar Roy of Congress won in 1957. ^[19] In independent India's first election in 1951, ^[20] Surendra Nath Roy of Congress won from Mainaguri. Jajneswar Roy and Mangaldas Bhagat, both of Congress, won from the Central Duars joint seat.

References

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