Kushmandi Assembly constituency

This article is about the Assembly constituency in West Bengal, India. For 1 its namesake community development block, see Kushmandi. For 2 its namesake village, see Kushmandi, Dakshin Dinajpur.

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

Kushmandi
Constituency No. 37 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Kushmandi Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Dakshin Dinajpur
Lok Sabha constituency	Balurghat
Established	1962
Total electors	219,921
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rekha Roy
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 37 Kushmandi Assembly constituency (SC) covers Kushmandi community development block and Belbari II, Jahangirpur and Sukdebpur gram panchayats of Gangarampur community development block.^[1]

Kushmandi Assembly constituency is part of No. 6 Balurghat (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1962	Kushmandi	Khalil Sayed	Communist Party of India[2]
1967		Jatindra Mohan Roy	Indian National Congress[3]
1969		Jatindra Mohan Roy	Indian National Congress[4]
1971		Jatindra Mohan Roy	Indian National Congress[5]
1972		Jatindra Mohan Roy	Indian National Congress[6]
1977		Dhirendra Nath Sarkar	Indian National Congress[7]
1982		Dhirendra Nath Sarkar	Indian National Congress[8]
1987		Narmada Chandra Roy	Revolutionary Socialist Party[9]
1991		Narmada Chandra Roy	Revolutionary Socialist Party[10]
1996		Narmada Chandra Roy	Revolutionary Socialist Party[11]
2001		Narmada Chandra Roy	Revolutionary Socialist Party[12]
2006		Narmada Chandra Roy	Revolutionary Socialist Party[13]
2011		Narmada Chandra Roy	Revolutionary Socialist Party[14]
2016		Narmada Chandra Roy	Revolutionary Socialist Party[14]
2021		Rekha Roy	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

In the 2021 election, Rekha Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival, Ranjit Kumar Roy of BJP.

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kushmandi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rekha Roy	89,968	48.88	+7.88
	BJP	Ranjit Kumar Roy	77,384	42.04	+29.34
	RSP	Narmada Chandra Roy	12,576	6.83	−36.37
	NOTA	None of the above	1,598	0.87	−1.54
	BSP	Biswanath Sarkar	1,436	0.78	−0.52
	Independent	Bhimnal Sarkar	1,118	0.61
Turnout			184,075
	AITC gain from RSP		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Narmada Chandra Roy of RSP defeated Rekha Roy of Trinamool Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Kushmandi (SC) constituency^[14][15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RSP	Narmada Chandra Roy	68,965	43.20	−4.22
	AITC	Rekha Roy	65,436	41.00	−3.82
	BJP	Ranjit Kumar Roy	20,183	12.70
	NOTA	None of the above	3,941	2.41
	BSP	Jaydeb Mondal	2,009	1.30
	Independent	Anil Kumar Singha	1,495	0.90
	Independent	Jagannath Roy	1,468	0.90
Turnout			159,556	85.80	−4.88
	RSP hold		Swing

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

2011

In the 2011 election, Narmada Chandra Roy of RSP defeated Partha Sarathi Sarkar of Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Kushmandi (SC) constituency^[14][16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RSP	Narmada Chandra Roy	66,368	47.42	+0.46
	INC	Parthasarathi Sarkar	62,725	44.82	−1.46#
	BJP	Ranjit Kumar Roy	5,286	3.78
	Independent	Raghunath Sarkar	2,306
	BSP	Prasanta Mandal	1,295
	CPI(ML)L	Subesh Sarkar	1,057
	Independent	Gouranga Barman	915
Turnout			139,952	89.88
	RSP hold		Swing	2.02#

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

1977–2006

In the 2006,^[13] 2001,^[12] 1996,^[11] 1991^[10] and 1987^[9] state assembly elections Narmada Chandra Roy of RSP won the 37 Kushmandi (SC) assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals, Rajib Lochan Sarkar of Congress, Jitendra Nath Sarkar of Trinamool Congress, Krishna Chandra Sarkar of Congress, Jitendra Nath Sarkar of Congress and Dhirendra Nath Sarkar of Congress respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Dhirendra Nath Sarkar of Congress defeated Narmada Chandra Roy of RSP in 1982^[8] and Jogendra Nath Roy of RSP in 1977.^[7][17]

1962–1972

Jatindra Mohan Roy of Congress won in 1972,^[6] 1971,^[5] 1969^[4] and 1967.^[3] Khalil Sayed of CPI won in 1962.^[2] The seat did not exist prior to that.