Raina Assembly constituency

For disambiguation, see Raina.

Raina
Constituency No. 261 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Raina Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
LS constituency	Bardhaman Purba
Established	1951
Total electors	209,643
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Shampa Dhara
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.

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	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Raina	Mrityunjoy 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]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Shampa Dhara	108,752	47.46	1.69
	BJP	Manik Roy	90,547	39.51	32.43
	CPI(M)	Basudeb Khan	25,332	11.05	34.50
	BSP	Pallab Biswas	1,871	0.82
	BMUP	Rabi Routh	1,101	0.48
	NOTA	None of the above	1,563	0.68
Turnout			229,166
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016:Raina constituency ^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nepal Ghorui	94,323	45.77	+0.97
	CPI(M)	Basudeb Khan	93,875	45.55	-5.57
	BJP	Kashinath Patra	14,589	7.08	+5.4
	NOTA	None of the above	3,306	1.6
Turnout			206,093	87.61	-4.67
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Raina ^{[22] [23] [24]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Basudeb Khan	98,897	51.12	-15.31
	AITC	Nepal Ghorui	86,676	44.80	+13.22#
	BJP	Pandit Krishna Chandra	3,241	1.68
	People’s Democratic Conference of India	Asit Rana	2,611
	BSP	Protul Biswas	1,024
	JDP	Adhir Roy	1,004
Turnout			193,453	92.28
	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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