Rampurhat Assembly constituency

Rampurhat
Constituency No. 291 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Rampurhat Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Birbhum
Lok Sabha constituency	Birbhum
Established	1951
Total electors	201,049
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Asish Banerjee
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Rampurhat Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 291, Rampurhat Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Rampurhat municipality, Rampurhat I CD Block and Bharkata, Gonpur, Hinglow, Kapista, Rampur and Sekedda gram panchayats of Mohammad Bazar CD Block. ^[1]

Rampurhat Assembly constituency is part of No. 42 Birbhum (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1951	Panchanan Let		All India Forward Bloc
	Srikumar Bandopadhyay
1957	Gobardhan Das		Communist Party of India
	Durgapada Das		Independent politician
1962	Niharika Majumdar		Indian National Congress
1967	Sasanka Sekhar Mongal		All India Forward Bloc
1969
1971	Braja Mohan Mukherjee		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1972	Ananda Gopal Roy		Indian National Congress
1977	Tapas Kumar Mukhopadhyay		Janata Party
1982	Sashanka Mondal		All India Forward Bloc
1987
1991
1996	Mahammad Hannan
2001	Asish Banerjee		All India Trinamool Congress
2006
2011
2016
2021

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Rampurhat

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Asish Banerjee	103,276	48.30	3.70
	BJP	Subhasis Choudhury	94,804	44.30	31.00
	CPI(M)	Sanjib Barman	11,707	5.50
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Rampurhat

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Asish Banerjee	85,435	44.60	1.20
	INC	Syed Siraj Jimmi	64,236	33.50	33.50
	BJP	Dudh Kumar Mondal	25,480	13.30	2.43
	AIFB	Mahammad Hannan	3,613	1.90	37.65
Majority
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Asish Banerjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Rebati Bhattacharya of AIFB.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Rampurhat ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Asish Banerjee	75,066	45.8	7.06#
	AIFB	Rebati Bhattacharya	64,828	39.55	2.04
	BJP	Subhasis Choudhury	17,815	10.87
	Independent	Mahesh Kisku	3,769
	CPI(ML)L	Prodyot Mukherjee	242
Turnout			163,905	86.31
	AITC hold		Swing	-5.56#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. For Trinamool Congress alone the swing was -0.02%.

1977–2006

In 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections, Asish Banerjee of Trinamool Congress won the Rampurhat assembly constituency defeating Nirad Baran Mandal of Forward Bloc in 2006, and Mahammad Hannan of Forward Bloc in 2001. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Mahammad Hannan of Forward Block defeated Satyendra Nath Das of BJP in 1996. Sashanka Mondal of Forward Bloc defeated Satyendra Nath Das of BJP in 1991, Asish Banerjee of Congress in 1987, Ananda Gopal Roy of Congress in 1982 and Tapas Kumar Mukhopadhyay of Janata Party in 1977. ^[5]

1951–1972

Ananda Gopal Roy of Congress won in 1972. Braja Mohan Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971. Sasanka Sekhar Mongal of Forward Bloc won in 1969 and 1967. Niharika Majumdar of Congress won in 1962. In 1957 and 1951 Rampurhat was a joint seat. Gobardhan Das of CPI and Durgapada Das, Independent, won in 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951 Panchanan Let and Srikumar Bandopadhyay, both of Forward Block, won. ^[6]

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
2. "Rampurhat". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
3. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Rampurhat. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
4. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). Rampurhat. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
5. "291 – Rampurhat Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
6. "Statistical Reports of Assembly Elections". General Election Results and Statistics. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 1 October 2010.