Debra Assembly constituency

For other uses, see Debra (disambiguation).

Debra Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Debra
Constituency No. 229 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Debra Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Paschim Medinipur
Lok Sabha constituency	Ghatal
Established	1957
Total electors	184,213
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Humayun Kabir
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 229 Debra Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Debra community development block.^[1]

Debra Assembly constituency is part of No. 32 Ghatal (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1] It was earlier part of Panskura (Lok Sabha constituency).

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Debra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Humayun Kabir	95,850	47.00
	BJP	Bharati Ghosh	84,624	41.00
	CPI(M)	Prankrishna Mondal	20,723	10.00
	SUCI	Dipankar Maity	1,509	1.00
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,353	1.00
Turnout
Majority			11,226
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

2011 West Bengal state assembly election: Debra^[2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Radhakanta Maiti	86,215	50.57	+6.52#
	CPI(M)	Sk. Sorab Hossein	77,402	45.40	−10.56
	BJP	Dilip Kumar Roy	3,893
	IPFB	Tanbir Murshed Khan	2,969
Turnout			170,479	92.54
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	17.08#

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

1977-2006

Sheikh Jahangir Karim of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) won the Debra assembly seat, five times in a row from 1987 to 2006, defeating Mrigendra Nath Maiti of Trinamool Congress in 2006, Radha Kanta Maiti of Trinamool Congress in 2001 Rabindra Nath Bera of Indian National Congress in 1996, and Sk. Mohammed Daud of Congress in 1991 and 1987. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Syed Moazzam Hossain of CPI(M) defeated Rabindra Nath Bera of Congress in 1982 and Sukumar Das of Congress in 1977.^[4]

1957-1972

Rabindra Nath Bera of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Bijoy Krishna Samanata won in 1969. K.Chakraborty of Bangla Congress won in 1967. Santosh Kumar Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962. Mohini Mohan Pati of Congress won in 1957.^[5]