Barjora (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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

Barjora
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Barjora
Location in West Bengal
Barjora
Barjora (India)
Coordinates: 23°26′00″N 87°17′00″E
Country India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictBankura
Constituency No.253
TypeOpen
Lok Sabha constituency37. Bishnupur
Electorate (year)203,550 (2011)

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 253 Barjora (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Barjora community development block; and Bhaktabandh, Gangajalghati, Gobindadham, Kapista, Nityanandapur and Piraboni gram panchayats of Gangajalghati community development block.[1]

Barjora (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 37 Bishnupur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Election results

2016
2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Barjora
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI (M) Sujit Chakraborty 86,873 43.42 +0.53
AITC Soham Chakraborty 86,257 43.11 -4.58
BJP Sujit Agasthi 15,991 7.99 +4.46
SUCI(C) Sudarshan Adhikari 2,352 1.18 N/A
Independent Raghunath Roy 2,326 1.16 N/A
BMP Indrani Sardar 2,050 1.02 N/A
NOTA None of the above 4,235 2.12 N/A
Majority 616 0.31 -4.49
Turnout 2,00,084 86.46 -0.55
Registered electors 2,31,414
CPI (M) gain from AITC Swing

2011
West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Barjora [2][3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Asutosh Mukherjee 84,457 47.69 +9.18
CPI (M) Susmita Biswas 75,966 42.89 -10.28
BJP Sanjoy Pal 6,245 3.53
Independent Prasanta Hembram 5,577
Independent Thakurdas Hembram 2,592
BSP Bhabesh Tudu 2,265
Turnout 177,102 87.01
AITC gain from CPI (M) Swing 19.46
 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Bankura district summary
Party Seats won Seat change
Trinamool Congress 8 8
Indian National Congress 1 1
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 3 7
Forward Bloc 0 1
Revolutionary Socialist Party 0 1
Communist Party of India 0 1

Note: New constituency – 1, constituencies abolished – 2 (See template talk page for details)

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections, Susmita Biswas of CPI(M) won the Barjora seat defeating Shampa Daripa of Trinamool Congress, Sudhansu Sekhar Tewari of Trinamool Congress and Tapasi Banerjee of Congress respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Jayasri Mitra of CPI(M) defeated Sabyasachi Roy of Congress in 1991 and Sudhansu Sekhar Tewari of Congress in 1987. Lalbihari Bhattacharya of CPI(M) defeated Sudhansu Sekhar Tewari of Congress in 1982. Aswini Kumar Raj of CPI(M) defeated Sudhansu Sekhar Tewari of Congress in 1977.[5]

1952-1972

Sudhansu Sekhar Tewary of Congress won in 1972. Aswini Kumar Raj of CPI(M) won in 1971 and 1969. A.Chatterjee of Congress won in 1967. Pramatha Ghosh of CPI won in 1962. The Barjora seat was not there in 1957. Prafulla Chandra Roy of Congress won the Barjora seat in independent India's first election in 1952.[6]

References
  1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  2. "Barjora". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  3. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Barjora. Empowering India. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  4. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). Barjora. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  5. "250 - Barjora Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  6. "Statistical Reports of Assembly Elections". General Election Results and Statistics. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
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