Rampurhat (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 291 Rampurhat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Rampurhat munuicipality, Rampurhat I community development block and Bharkata, Gonpur, Hinglow, Kapista, Rampur and Sekedda gram panchayats of Mohammad Bazar community development block.

Rampurhat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 42 Birbhum (Lok Sabha constituency).

2011

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

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

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

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 Md. Hannan of Forward Bloc in 2001. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Md. 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, Ananda Gopal Roy of Congress in 1982 and Tapas Kumar Mukhopadhyay of Janata Party in 1977.

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.