Raina Assembly constituency

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Raina
Constituency No. 261 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Raina Assembly constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Raina Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State West Bengal
District Purba Bardhaman
LS constituency Bardhaman Purba
Established1951
Total electors209,643
Reservation SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year 2021

Raina Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

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Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 261 Raina (SC) assembly constituency covers Raina II community development block and Hijalna, Natu, Palsona, Sehara, Narugram, Shyamsundar, and Rayna gram panchayats of Raina I community development block. [1]

Raina assembly segment was earlier part of Burdwan (Lok Sabha constituency). As per orders of Delimitation Commission it is part of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency). [1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election
Year
ConstituencyName of M.L.A.Party Affiliation
1951 RainaMrityunjoy Pramanick and Dasarathi Tah Krishak Mazdoor Praja Party [2]
1957 Dasarathi Tah and Gobardhan Pakray Praja Socialist Party [3]
1962 Probodh Kumar Guha Indian National Congress [4]
1967 Dasarathi Tah Praja Socialist Party [5]
1969 Panchu Gopal Guha Communist Party of India [6]
1971 Gokulananda Roy [7]
1972 Sukumar Chattopadhyay Indian National Congress [8]
1977 Ram Narayan Goswami Communist Party of India [9]
1982 Dhirendra Nath Chatterjee [10]
1987 Dhirendranath Chatterjee [11]
1991 Dhirendranath Chatterjee [12]
1996 Shyamaprasad Pal [13]
2001 Shyamaprasad Pal [14]
2006 Swapan Samanta [15] [16]
2011 Basudeb Khan [17]
2016 Nepal Ghorui All India Trinamool Congress [18] [19]
2021 Shampa Dhara [20]

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Raina [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Shampa Dhara 108,752 47.46 Increase2.svg1.69
BJP Manik Roy90,54739.51Increase2.svg32.43
CPI(M) Basudeb Khan25,33211.05Decrease2.svg34.50
BSP Pallab Biswas1,8710.82
BMUPRabi Routh1,1010.48
NOTANone of the above1,5630.68
Turnout 229,166
AITC hold Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016:Raina constituency [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Nepal Ghorui94,32345.77+0.97
CPI(M) Basudeb Khan93,87545.55−5.57
BJP Kashinath Patra14,5897.08+5.4
NOTA None of the above 3,3061.6
Turnout 206,09387.61−4.67
AITC gain from CPI(M) Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Raina [22] [23] [24]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CPI(M) Basudeb Khan98,89751.12−15.31
AITC Nepal Ghorui86,67644.80+13.22#
BJP Pandit Krishna Chandra3,2411.68
People’s Democratic Conference of IndiaAsit Rana2,611
BSP Protul Biswas1,024
JDP Adhir Roy1,004
Turnout 193,45392.28
CPI(M) hold Swing -28.53#

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

1977-2006

Swapan Samanta of CPI(M) won the Raina assembly seat in 2006 defeating his nearest rival Nityananda Tah of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001 and 1996, Shyamaprosad Pal of CPI(M) defeated Arup Kumar Das of Trinamool Congress and Arabinda Bhattacharyya of Congress, in the respective years. In 1991, 1987 and 1982, Dhirendranath Chatterjee of CPI(M) defeated Sunil Das, Uday Sankar Sain and Sukumar Chattopadhyay, all of Congress, in the respective years. In 1977, Ram Narayan Goswami of CPI(M) defeated Ajit Krishna Bhattacharya of Congress. [25]

1951-1972

Sukumar Chattopadhyay of Congress won the seat in 1972, and in 1971, it was won by Gokulananda Roy of CPI(M). Panchu Gopal Guha of CPI(M) won it in 1969, and Dasarathi Tah of PSP won it in 1967. Prabodh Kumar Guha of Congress won the seat in 1962. It was a double member seat in 1957 and 1951. In 1957, Dasarathi Tah and Gobardhan Pakray, both representing PSP, won the seats. In the first state assembly elections after independence in 1951, Dasarathi Tah and Mritunjoy Pramanik, both representing KMPP, won the Raina seats. [26]

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