Onda Assembly constituency

Onda Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Onda
Constituency No. 254 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Onda Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Bankura
Lok Sabha constituency	Bishnupur
Established	1957
Total electors	199,396
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Amarnath Shakha
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 254 Onda Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Onda community development block; and Bikna, Kosthia, Narrah and Sanbandha gram panchayats of Bankura II community development block.^[1]

Onda Assembly constituency is part of No. 37 Bishnupur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Members[2]	Party
2011	Arup Kumar Khan		Trinamool Congress
2016
2021	Amarnath Shakha		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Onda

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Amarnath Shakha	104,940	46.48	32.63
	AITC	Arup Kumar Khan	93,389	41.37	0.67
	AIFB	Tarapada Chakraborty	15,613	6.92	28.31
	NOTA	None of the Above	4,879	2.16	0.11
Majority			11,551	5.11	0.36
Turnout			2,25,759	87.88	1.25
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Onda

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Arup Kumar Khan	80,603	40.70	2.80
	AIFB	Manik Mukherjee	69,755	35.23	7.93
	BJP	Amarnath Shakha	27,417	13.85	8.07
	Independent	Ashok Chattopadhyay	6,158	3.11
	BSP	Sadhan Chattaraj	5,015	2.53	0.69
	NOTA	None of the above	4,489	2.27
	SUCI(C)	Sabiruddin Bhuina	3,042	1.54
	CPI(ML)L	Baidyanath China	1,539	0.78	1.66
Majority			10,848	5.47	5.13
Turnout			1,98,018	86.63	0.63
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Onda^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Arup Kumar Khan	75,699	43.50	11.03
	AIFB	Tarapada Chakraborty	75,103	43.16	17.10
	BJP	Amarnath Shakha	10,056	5.78
	CPI(ML)L	Baidyanath China	4,245	2.44
	BSP	Amitava Dey	3,201	1.84
	JMM	Abdul Hai Mallick	2,141	1.23
	JVM(P)	Abdul Samid Mandal	1,787	1.03
	JDP	Dilip Murmu	1,783	1.02
Majority			596	0.34
Turnout			1,74,015	87.27
	AITC gain from AIFB		Swing	28.13

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Tarapada Chakrabarti of Forward Bloc won the Onda assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Abeda Bibi Sk of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only the winner and runners are being mentioned. Anil Mukherjee of Forward Bloc defeated Sk. Sajahan of Congress in 2001, Arup Khan of Congress in 1996, Sambhu Narayan Goswami of Congress in 1991, Tapan Banerjee of Congress in 1987 and Sambhu Narayan Goswami of Congress in 1982 and 1977.^[6]

1957-1972

Sambhu Narayan Goswami of Congress won in 1972. Manik Dutta of CPI(M) won in 1971. Anil Kumar Mukherjee of Forward Block won in 1969. S.Dutta of Congress won in 1967. Gokul Behari Das of Congress won in 1962. Onda dual seat was won by Gokul Behari Das and Ashutosh Mallick, both of Congress, in 1957. The Onda seat did not exist prior to that.^[7]