Bhagabanpur Assembly constituency

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

Bhagabanpur
Constituency No. 214 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Bhagabanpur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Medinipur
Lok Sabha constituency	Kanthi
Established	1957
Total electors	2,54,184
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rabindranath Maity
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 214 Bhagabanpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Bhagabanpur, Kajlagarh, Kotbarh and Shimulia gram panchayats of Bhagabanpur I community development block, Arjunnagar, Basudevberia, Baroj, Itaberia, Jukhia, Mugberia and Radhapur gram panchayats of Bhagabanpur II community development block, and Argoyal and Mathura gram panchayats of Patashpur II community development block.^[1]

Bhagabanpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 31 Kanthi (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
2011	Ardhendu Maity		All India Trinamool Congress
2016
2021	Rabindranath Maity		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

In the 2021 election, Rabindranath Maity of BJP defeated his nearest rival, Ardhendu Maity of Trinamool Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Bhagabanpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rabindranath Maity	121,480	54.56	+50.76
	AITC	Ardhendu Maity	93,931	42.19	−11.99
	INC	Shiu Maiti	5,274	2.37	−36.25
	NOTA	None of the above	1,019	0.46	−0.10
	SUCI(C)	Ashoktaru Pradhan	946	0.42	−0.19
Turnout			222,650	90.64	+2.42
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Ardhendu Maity of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival, Hemangshu Shekhar Mahapatra of Indian National Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Bhagabanpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ardhendu Maity	111,201	54.18	+3.03
	INC	Hemangshu Shekhar Mahapatra	79,258	38.62
	BJP	Prasanta Panda	7,802	3.80	+1.21
	Independent	Priyabrata Dutta	1,634	0.80
	BSP	Ansar Ali Sk.	1,621	0.79
	SUCI(C)	Ashoktaru Pradhan	1,259	0.61
	NOTA	None of the above	1,149	0.56
	Bharat Nirman Party	Goutam Pradhan	763	0.37
	ABHM	Thakurdas Mandal	540	0.26
Turnout			205,227	88.22	−4.14
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Ardhendu Maity of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Ranajit Manna of SP.

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ardhendu Maity	93,945	51.15	−0.87#
	SP	Ranjit Manna	84,948	46.25	−0.05
	BJP	Sadananda De	4,763	2.59
Turnout			183,656	92.36
	AITC hold		Swing	-0.92#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections, Ardhendu Maity of Trinamool Congress won the Bhagabanpur assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Gour Kanti Bal and Prasanta Pradhan, both of CPI(M), in respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Ajit Khanra of Congress defeated Prasanta Pradhan of CPI(M) in 1996. Prasanta Pradhan of CPI(M) defeated Asoktaru Panda of Congress in 1991, Haripada Jana of Congress in 1987 and Ramkrishna Sarkar of Congress in 1982. Haripada Jana of Janata Party defeated Prasanta Pradhan of CPI(M) in 1977.^[5]

1957-1972

Amales Jana of Congress won in 1972. Prasanta Kumar Pradhan of CPI(M) won in 1971. Abha Maiti of Congress won in 1969, 1967 and 1962. In 1957 Bhagabanpur had a dual seat. It was won by Basanta Kumar Panda of PSP and Bhikhari Mondal of Congress.^[6]