Onda (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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

Onda
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Onda
Location in West Bengal
Onda
Onda (India)
Coordinates: 23°08′00″N 87°12′00″E
Country India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictBankura
Constituency No.254
TypeOpen
Lok Sabha constituency37. Bishnupur
Electorate (year)199,396 (2011)

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 254 Onda (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Onda community development block; and Bikna, Kosthia, Narrah and Sanbandha gram panchayats of Bankura II community development block.[1]

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

Election results

2011
West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Onda [2][3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Arup Kumar Khan 75,699 43.50 +11.03#
AIFB Tarapada Chakrabarti 75,103 43.16 -17.10
BJP Amar Nath Sakha 10,056 2.44
CPI(ML)L Baidyanath China 4,245
BSP Amitava De 3,201
JMM Abdul Hai Mallick 2,141
JVM(P) Abdul Samid Mandal 1,787
Jharkhand Disom Party Dilip Murmu 1,783
Turnout 174,015 87.27
AITC gain from AIFB Swing 28.13#

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

 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 state assembly elections, Tarapada Chakrabarti of Forward Bloc won the Onda assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Abeda Bibi Sk of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only the winner and runners are being mentioned. Anil Mukherjee of Forward Bloc defeated Sk. Sajahan of Congress in 2001, Arup Khan of Congress in 1996, Sambhu Narayan Goswami of Congress in 1991, Tapan Banerjee of Congress in 1987 and Sambhu Narayan Goswami of Congress in 1982 and 1977.[5]

1957-1972

Sambhu Narayan Goswami of Congress won in 1972. Manik Dutta of CPI(M) won in 1971. Anil Kumar Mukherjee of Forward Block won in 1969. S.Dutta of Congress won in 1967. Gokul Behari Das of Congress won in 1962. Onda dual seat was won by Gokul Behari Das and Ashutosh Mallick, both of Congress, in 1957. The Onda seat did not exist prior to that.[6]

References
  1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  2. "Onda". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  3. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Onda. Empowering India. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  4. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). Onda. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  5. "252 - Onda 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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