Tamluk Assembly constituency

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Tamluk
Constituency No. 203 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
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Interactive Map Outlining Tamluk Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictPurba Medinipur
Lok Sabha constituencyTamluk
Established1951
Total electors209,751
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyTrinamool Congress
Elected year2021

Tamluk Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

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As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 203 Tamluk Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Tamluk municipality, Bishnubarh II, Pipulberia I, Pipulberia II and Uttar Sonamui gram panchayats of Tamluk community development block, and Sahid Matangini community development block.[1]

Tamluk Assembly constituency is part of No. 30 Tamluk (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Year Name Party
1951 Ajoy Mukherjee Indian National Congress
1957
1962
1967 Bangla Congress
1967^ Ajoy Malakar
1969 Ajoy Mukherjee
1971 Indian National Congress
1972
1977 Biswanath Mukherjee Communist Party of India
1982
1987 Surajit Bagchi
1991 Anil Mudi Indian National Congress
1996
2001 Nirbed Roy Trinamool Congress
2006 Jagannath Mitra Communist Party of India
2011 Dr. Soumen Mahapatra Trinamool Congress
2016 Ashok Dinda Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021 Dr. Soumen Mahapatra Trinamool Congress
  • ^ by-election

Election results

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West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Tamluk
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Dr. Soumen Mahapatra 108,243 45.86 +0.86
BJP Hare Krishna Bera 107,450 45.52 +38.82
CPI Goutam Panda 14,718 6.24 −38.96
SUCI(C) Jnanananda Roy 2,756 1.17 −0.83
NOTA None of the above 1,136 0.48 −0.64
Independent Bhim Patra 774 0.33
Independent Sandip Batabyal 762 0.32
AMB Sulalit Mallick 192 0.08
Majority 793 0.34 +0.14
Turnout 236,031 92.33 +4.50
AITC gain from CPI Swing
West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Tamluk
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) Ashok Dinda 95,432 45.20 +3.32
AITC Nirbed Roy 94,912 45.00 −7.82
BJP Biswajit Dutta 14,144 6.70 +3.83
SUCI(C) Satish Saw 4,244 2.00
NOTA None of the above 2,394 1.12
Independent Gautam Dutta 874 0.40
Bharat Nirman Party Ranjan Malakar 758 0.40
Rashtriya Janadhikar Suraksha Party Tapas Chakraborty 329 0.20
Indian Unity Centre Rejman Mullick 323 0.20
Majority 520 0.20
Turnout 213,410 87.83 −2.21
CPI gain from AITC Swing

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Tamluk[2][3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Dr. Soumen Mahapatra 99,765 52.82 +6.94#
CPI Jagannath Mitra 79,089 41.88 −40454
BJP Malay Kumar Singha 5,423 2.87
Independent Ram Chandra Maity 1,610
People’s Democratic Conference of India Khairuddin Rahaman 1,563
Indian Unity Centre Ataul Rahaman Bhunya 1,414
Turnout 188,864 90.04
AITC gain from CPI Swing 14.06#

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

1977-2006

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In the 2006 state assembly elections Jagannath Mitra of CPI won the 203 Tamluk assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Chittaranjan Maiti of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years involved multiple candidates but only winners and runners-up are being mentioned. Nirbed Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated Santosh Rana of CPI in 2001. Anil Mudi of Congress defeated Surajit Bagchi of CPI in 1996 and 1991. Surajit Bagchi of CPI defeated Anil Mudi of Congress in 1987. Biswanath Mukherjee of CPI defeated Sukumar Das representing ICS in 1982 and representing Congress in 1977.[5]

1951-1972

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Ajoy Mukherjee representing Indian National Congress won in 1972, representing Bangla Congress won in 1971, 1969 and 1967, and earlier representing Congress won in 1962, 1957 and in independent India's first election in 1951.[6]

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