Jamalpur, West Bengal Assembly constituency

For disambiguation, see Jamalpur. For the constituency in Bihar, see Jamalpur, Bihar Assembly constituency.

Jamalpur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Jamalpur
Constituency No. 262 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Jamalpur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Lok Sabha constituency	Bardhaman Purba
Established	1962
Total electors	187,502
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Alok Kumar Majhi
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 262 Jamalpur (SC) assembly constituency covers Jamalpur community development block and Mugura gram panchayat of Raina I community development block.^[1]

Jamalpur assembly segment was earlier part of Burdwan (Lok Sabha constituency). As per orders of Delimitation Commission it is part of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1962	Mrityunjoy Pramanik		Indian National Congress
1967	Puranjoy Pramanik
1969	Basudeb Malik		Bangla Congress
1971	Kalipada Das		Marxist Forward Bloc
1972	Puranjoy Pramanik		Indian National Congress
1977	Sunil Santra		Marxist Forward Bloc
1982			Independent politician
1987
1991	Samar Hazra		Communist Party of India
1996
2001
2006			Independent politician
2011	Ujjal Pramanik		All India Trinamool Congress
2016	Samar Hazra		Communist Party of India
2021	Alok Kumar Majhi		All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Jamalpur^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Alok Kumar Majhi	96,999	46.93	3.14
	BJP	Balaram Bapari	79,028	38.23	30.37
	CPI(M)	Samar Hazra	23,298	11.27	33.26
	BSP	Gaurhari Patra	2,024	0.98	0.01
	BMUP	Kartick Khetrapal	1,291	0.62
	CPI(ML)L	Tarun Kanti Majhi	1,185	0.57
	NOTA	None of the above	2,865	1.39
Turnout			206,690
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

Samar Hazra, originally belonging to the MFB party, fought in this election with the symbol of CPI (M).

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Jamalpur^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Samar Hazra	85,491	44.53	−2.74
	AITC	Ujjal Pramanik	84,068	43.79	−4.94
	BJP	Pallab Kumar Roy	15,094	7.86	+6.07
	NOTA	None of the above	2,616	1.36	+1.36
	BSP	Bankim Santra	1,902	0.99
Turnout			1,91,986	88.60	−3.8
	CPI(M) gain from AITC		Swing

Samar Hazra, originally belonging to the MFB party, fought and won in this election with the symbol of CPI (M).

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Jamalpur^[4][5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ujjal Pramanik	84,434	48.73	+15.38#
	MFB	Samar Hazra	81,891	47.27	−16.34
	BJP	Subrata Mallick	3,102	1.79
	People's Democratic Conference of India	Rabindranath Bag	1,721
	JDP	Pratap Malik	1,149
	BSP	Suranjan Halder	958
Turnout			173,255	92.4
	AITC gain from MFB		Swing	+31.72#

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

1977-2006

In 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991, Samar Hazra, Marxist Forward Bloc won the Jamalpur (SC) assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals, Shankar Chandra Mallick of Trinamool Congress, Ajay Pramanik of Trinamool Congress, Baidyanath Das of Congress and Ajay Pramnik of Congress, in the respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 1987, 1982 and 1977, Sunil Santra, MFB, defeated Puranjoy Pramanik of Congress/ ICS.^[7]

1962-1972

Puranjoy Pramanik of Congress won the seat in 1972. Kalipada Das of MFB won the seat in 1971. Basudeb Pramanik of Bangla Congress won the seat in 1969. Puranjoy Pramanik of Congress won the seat in 1967. Mrityunjoy Pramanik of Congress won the seat in 1962. Prior to that the seat did not exist.^[8]