Jalpaiguri Assembly constituency

Jalpaiguri is an assembly constituency in Jalpaiguri district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Jalpaiguri
Constituency No. 17 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Jalpaiguri Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Jalpaiguri
Lok Sabha constituency	Jalpaiguri
Established	1951
Total electors	262,500
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Pradip Kumar Barma
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 17 Jalpaiguri Assembly constituency (SC) covers Jalpaiguri municipality, and Arabinda, Bahadur, Boalmari Nandanpur, Garalbari, Kharia, Kharija Berubari I, Kharija Berubari II, Mondalghat, Nagar Berubari and South Berubari gram panchayats of Jalpaiguri community development block,^[1]

Jalpaiguri Assembly constituency is part of No. 3 Jalpaiguri (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Khagendra Nath Dasgupta		Indian National Congress
1957
1962
1967
1969	Naresh Chandra Chakraborty		Communist Party of India
1971	Anupam Sen		Indian National Congress
1972
1977	Nirmal Kumar Bose		All India Forward Bloc
1982
1987
1991	Anupam Sen		Indian National Congress
1996
2001	Gobinda Roy		All India Forward Bloc
2006	Debaprasad Roy		Indian National Congress
2011	Sukhbilas Barma
2016
2021	Pradip Kumar Barma		All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021 Election

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Jalpaiguri (SC) constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Pradip Kumar Barma	95,668	42%
	BJP	Sujit Singha	94,727	42%
	INC	Sukhbilas Barma	24,228	11%
Turnout

2016 Election

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Jalpaiguri (SC) constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sukhbilas Barma	94553
	AITC	Dharitri Mohan Roy	89396
	BJP	Tapan Roy	16029
Turnout

2011

In the 2011 elections, Sukh Bilas Barma of Congress defeated his nearest rival Gobinda Chandra Roy of AIFB.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Jalpaiguri (SC) constituency^[2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sukhbilas Barma	86,273	48.64	−2.37#
	AIFB	Gobinda Chandra Roy	75,222	42.41	−1.32
	BJP	Sisir Kanti Mondal	6,108	3.44
	BSP	Jiban Krishna Majumder	3,213
	Independent	Laxmi Kanta Roy	2,773
	SUCI(C)	Haribhakta Sardar	1,930
	AMB	Mahadeb Chandra Das	1,844
Turnout			177,363	85.43
	INC hold		Swing	-1.05#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections,^[4] Deba Prasad Roy of Congress won the Jalpaiguri assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Gobinda Roy of Forward Bloc. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001,^[5] Gobinda Roy of Forward Bloc defeated Anupam Sen representing Trinamool Congress. Anupam Sen representing Congress defeated of Sudhansu Majumdar of Forward Bloc in 1996^[6] and Nirmal Kumar Bose of Forward Bloc in 1991,^[7] Nirmal Kumar Bose of Forward Bloc defeated Anupam Sen of Congress in 1987^[8] and 1982,^[9] and Devendra Mohan Sarkar of Janata Party in 1977.^[10][11]

1951–1972

Anupam Sen of Congress won in 1972^[12] and 1971.^[13] Naresh Chandra Chakraborty of CPI won in 1969.^[14] Khagendra Nath Dasgupta of Congress won in 1967^[15] and 1962.^[16] Prior to that Jalpaiguri was a joint seat. Sarojendra Deb Raikut and Khagendra Nath Dasgupta, both of Congress, won in 1957.^[17] In independent India's first election in 1951, Ashrumati Devi and Khagendra Nath Dasgupta, both of Congress, won.^[18]