Bolpur Assembly constituency

Bolpur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Bolpur
Constituency No. 286 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Bolpur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Birbhum
Lok Sabha constituency	Bolpur
Established	1951
Total electors	201,049
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Chandranath Sinha
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 286, Bolpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Bolpur municipality, Ilambazar CD Block and Raipur Supur, Ruppur and Sattor gram panchayats of Bolpur Sriniketan CD Block.^[1]

Bolpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 41 Bolpur (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

Election results

2021

In the 2021 elections, Chandranath Sinha of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival, Dr. Anirban Ganguly of BJP.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Bolpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Chandranath Sinha	116,443	50.57	−4.23
	BJP	Dr. Anirban Ganguly	94,163	40.89	+31.43
	RSP	Tapan Hore	9,965	4.33	−26.27
	NOTA	None of the above	3,337	1.45	−0.83
	Paradise Party	Siddhartha Banerjee	1,938	0.84
	BSP	Jiten Ray	1,239	0.54	−0.22
	Rashtravadi Janata Party	Mihir Kumar Banerjee	1,169	0.51
	BMP	Sona Murmu	702	0.30
	SUCI(C)	Samarjit Barman	678	0.29	−0.11
	Mulnibasi Party of India	Sk. Sirajul Hoque	626	0.27	−0.19
Turnout			230,260	88.83	+4.22
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

In the 2016 elections, Chandranath Sinha of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival, Tapan Hore of RSP.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Bolpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Chandranath Sinha	113,258	54.80	+4.29
	RSP	Tapan Hore	63,231	30.60	−10.51
	BJP	Dilip Ghosh	19,553	9.46	+5.85
	NOTA	None of the above	4,712	2.28
	Independent	Mangal Mardi	1,752	0.85
	BSP	Suresh Das	1,573	0.76	−0.43
	Mulnibasi Party of India	Sekh Matiur Rahaman	948	0.46
	SUCI(C)	Samarjit Barman	832	0.40
	JD(S)	Md. Saddakkas	802	0.39
Turnout			206,661	84.61	−3.42
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Chandranath Singha of Trinamool Congress defeated Tapan Hore of RSP.

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Chandranath Singha	89,394	50.51	+16.03#
	RSP	Tapan Hore	72,767	41.11	−17.39
	BJP	Dilip Ghosh	6,381	3.61
	People’s Democratic Conference of India	Marjina Khatun	3,291	1.86
	BSP	Samiran Das	2,100	1.19
	JDP	Lakshmiram Kisku	1,836	1.04
	JD(U)	Subrata Bhakat	1,224	0.69
Turnout			176,993	88.03
	AITC gain from RSP		Swing	+33.42#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections Tapan Hore of RSP won the Bolpur assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Chittaranjan Rakshit of Trinamool Congress in 2006, Dr. Sushobhan Banerjee of Trinamool Congress in 2001, Shibshankar Banerjee of Congress in 1996 and Dr. Sushobhan Banerjee of Congress in 1991. Tarapada Ghosh of RSP defeated Dr. Sushobhan Banerjee of Congress in 1987. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In a by-election necessitated by the death of sitting MLA Jyotsna Kumar Gupta, Dr. Sushovan Banerjee of Congress won the seat in 1984. Jyotsna Kumar Gupta of RSP defeated Dr. Sushobhan Banerjee of Congress in 1982 and Gourhari Chandra of Congress in 1977.^[5]

1951–1972

Harashankar Bhattacharya of CPI won in 1971. Prasanta Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971. Panna Lal Dasgupta, Independent, won in 1969. R.K. Sinha, Independent, won in 1967. Radha Krishna Singha of RSP won in 1962. Amarendra Nath Sarkar of Congress won in 1957. Hanseswar Roy and Bhusan Hansdah, both of Congress, jointly won the Bolpur seat in 1951.^[6]