Barjora Assembly constituency

Barjora Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Barjora
Constituency No. 253 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Barjora Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Bankura
Lok Sabha constituency	Bishnupur
Established	1951
Total electors	203,550
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Alok Mukherjee
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 253 Barjora Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Barjora community development block; and Bhaktabandh, Gangajalghati, Gobindadham, Kapista, Nityanandapur and Piraboni gram panchayats of Gangajalghati community development block.^[1]

Barjora Assembly constituency is part of No. 37 Bishnupur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party Affiliation
2021	Alok Mukherjee	All India Trinamool Congress
2016	Sujit Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2011	Asutosh Mukherjee	All India Trinamool Congress
2006	Susmita Biswas	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2001	Susmita Biswas	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1996	Susmita Biswas	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991	Jayasri Mitra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1987	Jayasri Mitra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982	Lalbihari Bhattacharya	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1977	Aswini Kumar Raj	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1972	Sudhansu Sekhar Tewary	Indian National Congress
1971	Aswini Kumar Raj	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1969	Aswini Kumar Raj	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1967	A.Chatterje	Indian National Congress
1962	Pramatha Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1957	No Seat
1952	Prafulla Chandra Roy	Indian National Congress

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Barjora

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Alok Mukherjee	93,290	42.51	−0.60
	BJP	Supriti Chatterjee	90,021	41.02	+33.03
	CPI(M)	Sujit Chakraborty	25,235	11.50	−31.92
	NOTA	None of the above	4,903	2.23	+0.11
	Independent	Tarani Roy	2,081	0.95	N/A
	Independent	Satyam Bauri	1,391	0.63	N/A
	BMP	Bablu Gorai	1,371	0.62	−0.40
	SUCI(C)	Sudarshan Adhikari	1,160	0.53	−0.65
Majority			3,269	1.49	+1.18
Turnout			219,452
Registered electors
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Barjora

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Sujit Chakraborty	86,873	43.42	+0.53
	AITC	Soham Chakraborty	86,257	43.11	−4.58
	BJP	Sujit Agasthi	15,991	7.99	+4.46
	SUCI(C)	Sudarshan Adhikari	2,352	1.18	N/A
	Independent	Raghunath Roy	2,326	1.16	N/A
	BMP	Indrani Sardar	2,050	1.02	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	4,235	2.12	N/A
Majority			616	0.31	−4.49
Turnout			2,00,084	86.46	−0.55
Registered electors			2,31,414
	CPI(M) gain from AITC		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Barjora^[2][3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Asutosh Mukherjee	84,457	47.69	+9.18
	CPI(M)	Susmita Biswas	75,966	42.89	−10.28
	BJP	Sanjoy Pal	6,245	3.53
	Independent	Prasanta Hembram	5,577
	Independent	Thakurdas Hembram	2,592
	BSP	Bhabesh Tudu	2,265
Turnout			177,102	87.01
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	19.46

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections, Susmita Biswas of CPI(M) won the Barjora seat defeating Shampa Daripa of Trinamool Congress, Sudhansu Sekhar Tewari of Trinamool Congress and Tapasi Banerjee of Congress respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Jayasri Mitra of CPI(M) defeated Sabyasachi Roy of Congress in 1991 and Sudhansu Sekhar Tewari of Congress in 1987. Lalbihari Bhattacharya of CPI(M) defeated Sudhansu Sekhar Tewari of Congress in 1982. Aswini Kumar Raj of CPI(M) defeated Sudhansu Sekhar Tewari of Congress in 1977.^[5]

1952-1972

Sudhansu Sekhar Tewary of Congress won in 1972. Aswini Kumar Raj of CPI(M) won in 1971 and 1969. A.Chatterjee of Congress won in 1967. Pramatha Ghosh of CPI won in 1962. The Barjora seat was not there in 1957. Prafulla Chandra Roy of Congress won the Barjora seat in independent India's first election in 1952.^[6]