Panskura Purba Assembly constituency

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

Panskura Purba
Constituency No. 204 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Panskura Purba Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Medinipur
LS constituency	Tamluk
Established	1951
Total electors	186,193
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Biplab Roy Chowdhury
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 204 Panskura Purba Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kolaghat CD Block.^[1]

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Panskura (North)	Rajani Kanta Pramanick	Indian National Congress[2]
	Panskura (South)	Shyama Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress[2]
1957	Panskura East	Rajani Kanta Pramanik	Indian National Congress[3]
1962		Rajani Kanta Pramanik	Indian National Congress[4]
1967		Geeta Mukherjee	Communist Party of India[5]
1969		Geeta Mukherjee	Communist Party of India[6]
1971		Geeta Mukherjee	Communist Party of India[7]
1972		Geeta Mukherjee	Communist Party of India[8]
1977		Swades Ranjan Maji	Janata Party[9]
1982		Swades Ranjan Maji	Independent[10]
1987		Sibram Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1991		Sisir Sarkar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1996		Biplab Roy Chowdhury	Indian National Congress[13]
2001		Biplab Roy Chowdhury	Trinamool Congress[14]
2006		Amiya Kumar Sahoo	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Panskura Purba
2011	Panskura Purba	Biplab Roy Chowdhury	Trinamool Congress[16]
2016		Sk. Ibrahim Ali	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[17]
2021		Biplab Roy Chowdhury	Trinamool Congress

Election results

2016 election

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Panskura Purba

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Sk. Ibrahim Ali	85,334
	AITC	Biplab Roy Chowdhury	80,567
	BJP	Smt. Aparna Laskar	10,041
	SUCI(C)	Narayan Nayak	2,572
	Independent	Amiya Kumar Sahoo	2,181
	NOTA	None of the above	1,864
Turnout			1,63,577	87.85
	CPI(M) gain from AITC		Swing	10.65#

.# Swing calculated on LF+Congress vote percentages taken together in 2016.

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Panskura Purba^[18][19][20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Biplab Roy Chowdhury	82,957	50.71	+3.67#
	CPI(M)	Amiya Sahoo	69,790	42.66	−6.98
	BJP	Deb Kumar Maity	3,971	2.43
	Independent	Motahar Hossen Mallick	3,649
	People's Democratic Conference of India	Kamarujjaman Khann	1,750
	Independent	Sk. Mahim	1,640
Turnout			163,577	87.85
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	10.65#

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

2006

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Panskura East^[18][19][20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Amiya Ranjan Sahoo	72,858
	AITC	Biplab Roy Chowdhury	65,998
	Independent	Anurupa Das	3,459
	INC	Mahadeb Sengupta	3,038
	Independent	Paresh Ghosh	1,409
Turnout			146,762	87.85
	CPI(M) gain from AITC		Swing	10.65#

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

2001

West Bengal assembly elections, 2001: Panskura East^[18][19][20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Biplab Roy Chowdhury	64,805
	CPI(M)	Sisir Kumar Sarkar	62,499
	BJP	Narayan Kinkar Mishra	3,668
	Independent	Anurupa Das	2,324
	Janata Dal (United)	Nikhil Jana	1,073
	Independent	Amiya Maity	971
Turnout			135,340	83.51
	Swing to AITC from CPI(M)		Swing

.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress+Congress vote percentages taken together in 2001.

1996

West Bengal assembly elections, 1996: Panskura East^[18][19][20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Biplab Roy Chowdhury	62,496	47,65	+3.67#
	CPI(M)	Sisir Kumar Sarkar	62,359	47,55	−6.98
	BJP	Tushar Kanti Das	2,724	2.43
	Independent	Haripada Pramanik	2,367
	Independent	Hyder Mallick	1,073
Turnout			131,151	87.89
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections Amiya Kumar Sahoo of CPI(M) won the Panskura East assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Biplab Ray Chowdhury of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Biplab Roychowdhury representing Trinamool Congress in 2001 and representing Congress in 1996, defeated Sisir Sarkar of CPI(M). Sisir Sarkar of CPI(M) defeated Biplab Roy Choudhury of Congress in 1991. Sibram Basu of CPI(M) defeated Rabindra Bag of Congress in 1987. Swades Ranjan Maji, Independent/ Janata Party, defeated Biplab Roy Choudhury representing ICS in 1982, and Adhir Kumar Chatterjee of Forward Bloc in 1977.^[21]

1951-1972

Geeta Mukherjee of CPI won the Panskura East seat in 1972, 1971, 1969 and 1967 defeating Amar Prasad Chakravarty of Forward Bloc, Birbhadra Gouri of Bangla Congress, Shyamdas Bhattacharya of Congress and Saradindu Samanta of Congress. Rajani Kanta Pramanik of Congress won in 1962 and 1957. In independent first election in 1951, the two Panskura seats were named Panskura North and Panskura South. While Rajanikanta Pramanik of Congress won the Panskura North seat, Shyama Bhattacharya of Congress won the Panskura South seat.^[22]

References

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