Labpur Assembly constituency

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

Labpur
Constituency No. 288 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Labpur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Birbhum
Lok Sabha constituency	Bolpur
Established	1957
Total electors	186,852
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Abhijit Sinha
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 288 Labpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Labpur CD Block and Ahmedpur, Amarpur, Bhromorkol, Panrui, Sangra and Shrinidhipur gram panchayats of Sainthia CD Block.^[1]

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

Election results

2021

In the 2021 elections, Abhijit Sinha(Rana) of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Biswajit Mondal of BJP.

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Labpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Abhijit Sinha (Rana)	108,423	51.14	1.26
	BJP	Biswajit Mondal	90,448	42.66	33.59
	CPI(M)	Syed Mahfuzul Karim	6,479	3.06
	NOTA	None of the above	3,057	1.44
	IND	Monirul Islam	1,992	0.94
Majority			17,975	8.59
Turnout			2,12,300	88.44
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

In the 2016 elections, Monirul Islam of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Syed mahfu Karim of CPI(M).

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Labpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Monirul Islam	1,01,138	52.40
	CPI(M)	Syed Mahfu Karim (Mahfuz)	70,825	36.69
	BJP	Nirmal Chandra Mandal	17,513	9.07
	NOTA	None of the above	3,536	1.83
Majority			30,313	15.71
Turnout			1,93,103	88.42
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Monirul Islam of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Nabanita Mukherjee of CPI(M).^[2][3][4]

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Labpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Monirul Islam	78,697	47.68	12.73
	CPI(M)	Nabanita Mukherjee	75,691	45.86	11.83
	BJP	Kashinath Mishra	10,668	6.46
Majority			3,006	1.82
Turnout			1,65,075	88.31
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+24.56

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

1977–2006

In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections Nabanita Mukherjee of CPI(M) won the Labpur assembly seat defeating Debasish Ojha of Trinamool Congress in 2006 and Arup Kumar Mishra of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Manik Chandra Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Deb Ranjan Mukhopadhyay of Congress in 1996 and Eunus Mallick of Congress in 1991. Sunil Kumar Mazumdar of CPI(M) defeated Eunus Mallick of Congress in 1987, Sisir Dutta of Congress in 1982, and Eunus Mallick of Congress in 1977.^[5]

1957–1972

Nirmal Krishna Sinha of CPI won in 1972. Sunil Kumar Mazumdar of CPI won in 1971. Radhanath Chattoraj of CPI(M) won in 1969. S. Bandopadhyay of Congress won in 1967. Radhanath Chattoraj representing CPI won in 1962 and 1957. Prior to that the seat was not there.^[6]