Panskura Paschim Assembly constituency

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

Panskura Paschim
Constituency No. 205 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Panskura Paschim Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Medinipur
Lok Sabha constituency	Ghatal
Established	1951
Total electors	211,399
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Firoja Bibi
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 205 Panskura Paschim Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Panskura CD Block.^[1]

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1951	Shyamadas Bhattachary (Panskura South)		Indian National Congress
	Rajanikanta Pramanik (Panskura North)
1957	Shyamadas Bhattacharya (Panskura West)
1962	Shyamadas Bhattacharya
1967	R. K. Pramanik		Bangla Congress
1969	Ahindra Mishra
1971	Sk. Omar Ali		Communist Party of India
1972
1977
1982
1987
1991
1996	Chittaranjan Das Thakur
2001
2006
Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Panskura Paschim
2011	Sk. Omar Ali		All India Trinamool Congress
2016	Firoja Bibi
2021

Election results

2021 election

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Panskura Paschim

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Firoja Bibi	111,705	47.71	+3.52
	BJP	Sintu Senapati	102,816	43.91	+34.63
	CPI	Chittaranjan Das Thakur	15,124	6.46	−36.22
	NOTA	None of the above	1,337	0.57	−0.45
	SUCI(C)	Sunil Kumar Jana	1,239	0.53	+0.05
	Independent	Narayan Kinkar Mishra	1,103	0.47
	LJP	Preetilata Das Tewari	817	0.35
Turnout			234,141	89.20	+4.41
	AITC hold		Swing

2016 election

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Panskura Paschim

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Firoja Bibi	92,427	44.19
	CPI	Chittaranjan Das Thakur	89,282	42.68
	BJP	Narayan Kinkar Mishra	19,403	9.28
	NOTA	None of the above	2,125	1.02
	Independent	Tarun Samanta	1,524	0.73
	Independent	Nisith Kumar Maiti	1,104	0.53
	SUCI(C)	Sk. Abdul Masud	1,007	0.48
	Independent	Saphiruddin Khan	942	0.45
	PDS	Sk Mafijul Rahaman	718	0.34
	Independent	Sulalit Mallick	635	0.30
Majority			3,145	1.50
Turnout			209,166	84.79
	AITC hold		Swing

.# Swing calculated on Left Front+Congress vote percentages taken together in 2016.

2011

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dr. Omar Ali	93,349	49.97	+9.40#
	CPI	Nirmal Kumar Bera	84,209	45.08	−12.17
	BJP	Narayan Kinkar Mishra	5,994	3.21
	Independent	Nisith Kumar Maiti	3,249
Turnout			163,577	87.85
	AITC gain from CPI		Swing	21.57#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections Chittaranjan Das Thakur of CPI won the Panskura West assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Jaidul Khan of Trinamool Congress in 2006, and Jakiur Rahman Khan of Trinamool Congress/ Congress in 2001 and 1996. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Omar Ali of CPI defeated Sk. Golam Murshed of Congress in 1991, Asit Baran Samanta of Congress in 1987, Jyoti Kumar Roy of Congress in 1982, and Jyoti Kumar Roy of Janata Party in 1977.^[5]

1951-1972

Sk. Omar Ali of CPI won in 1972 and 1971. Ahindra Mishra of Bangla Congress won in 1969. R.K.Pramanik of Bangla Congress won in 1967. Shymadas Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1962 and 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, the two seats at Panskura were named Panskura North and Panskura South. While Shyamadas Bhattacharya of Congress won the Panskura South seat, Rajanikanta Pramanik won the Panskura North seat.^[6]