Pursurah (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Pursurah
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Pursurah Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Pursurah Pursurah (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 22°51′01″N87°57′46″E / 22.85028°N 87.96278°E / 22.85028; 87.96278 Coordinates: 22°51′01″N87°57′46″E / 22.85028°N 87.96278°E / 22.85028; 87.96278
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly
Constituency No.	199
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	29. Arambagh (SC)
Electorate (year)	213,942 (2011)

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

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 199 Pursurah (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Pursurah community development block, along with Arunda, Balipur, Rammohan I, Rammohan II and Tantisal gram panchayats of Khanakul I community development block, and Harinkhola I and Harinkhola II gram panchayats of Arambagh community development block. ^[1]

Pursurah (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 29 Arambagh (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC). ^[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1967	Pursurah	Santi Mohan Roy	Indian National Congress [2]
1969		Santi Mohan Roy	Indian National Congress [3]
1971		Mahadeb Mukhopadhyay	Indian National Congress [4]
1972		Mahadeb Mukhopadhyay	Indian National Congress [5]
1977		Manoranjan Hazra	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1982		Santi Mohan Roy	Indian National Congress [7]
1987		Bishnupada Bera	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
1991		Bishnupada Bera	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [9]
1996		Nimai Mal	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
2001		Nimai Mal	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
2006		Saumendra Nath Bera	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
2011		Parvez Rahaman	All India Trinamool Congress [13]
2016		Dr. M. Nuruzzaman	All India Trinamool Congress
2021		Biman Ghosh	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Pursurah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Biman Ghosh	119,334	53.50	+44.62
	AITC	Dilip Yadav	91,156	40.86	-10.24
	INC	Monika Malik Ghosh	7,828	3.51	-33.45
	NOTA	None of the above	2,788	1.25	-0.52
	Independent	Chiranjit Barik	1,968	0.88
Turnout			223,074	88.55	+2.22
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Pursurah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dr. M. Nuruzzaman	105,275	51.10
	INC	Pratim Singha Roy	76,148	36.96	-19.67
	BJP	Subhendu Mukherjee	18,296	8.88
	NOTA	None of the above	3,646	1.77
	Independent	Jhantu Saha	2,649	1.29
Turnout			206,014	86.33	-3.23
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Sk. Parvez Rahman of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Soumendranath Bera of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Pursurah ^{[13] [14]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Parvez Rahaman	107,794	56.26	+15.65#
	CPI (M)	Soumendranath Bera	76,104	39.72	-19.67
	BJP	Sukumar Dhara	7,718	4.03
Turnout			191,616	89.56
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing	35.32#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 ^[12] state assembly elections Saumendranath Bera of CPI(M) won the Pursurah assembly seat defeating Sk. Parvez Rahman of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Nimai Mal of CPI(M) defeated Sk. Pervez Rahman of Trinamool Congress in 2001 ^[11] and Gour Mohan Maity of Congress in 1996. ^[10] Bishnupada Bera of CPI(M) defeated Bibhuti Bhusan Roy of Congress in 1991 ^[9] and Santi Mohun Roy of Congress in 1987. ^[8] Santi Mohun Roy of Congress defeated Bishnupada Bera of CPI(M) in 1982. ^[7] Manoranjan Hazra of CPI(M) defeated Durga Charan Chakrabarty of Janata Party in 1977. ^{[6] [15]}

1967-1972

Mahadeb Mukhopadhyay of Congress won in 1972 ^[5] and 1971. ^[4] Santi Mohan Roy of Congress won in 1969 ^[3] and 1967. ^[2] Prior to that the Pursurah seat did not exist.

References

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