Patashpur Assembly constituency

This article is about the assembly constituency in West Bengal, India. For 1. its name sake village, see Patashpur. For 2. Its namesake community development block, see Patashpur I. For 3. its another namesake community development block, see Patashpur II.

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

Patashpur
Constituency No. 212 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Patashpur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Medinipur
Lok Sabha constituency	Kanthi
Established	1951
Total electors	2,36,413
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Uttam Barik
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 212 Patashpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Patashpur I community development block; Khargram, Panchet, Pataspur, South Khanda and Sreerampur gram panchayats of Patashpur II community development block.^[1]

Patashpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 31 Kanthi (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1] It was earlier part of Midnapore (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
2011	Jyotirmoy Kar	Trinamool Congress
2016	Jyotirmoy Kar	Trinamool Congress
2021	Uttam Barik	Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Patashpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Uttam Barik	105,299	50.42	−4.09
	BJP	Ambujaksha Mahanti	95,305	45.64	+40.28
	CPI	Saikat Giri	6,631	3.18	−35.60
	NOTA	None of the above	861	0.41	−0.18
	SUCI(C)	Surjyendu Bikash Patra	731	0.35	−0.05
Turnout			208,827	91.61	+2.92
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Patashpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Jyotirmoy Kar	103,567	54.51	+4.58
	CPI	Makhanlal Nayak	73,679	38.78	−7.22
	BJP	Swapan Kumar Dutta	10,193	5.36	+2.93
	NOTA	None of the above	1,112	0.59
	SUCI(C)	Surjyendu Bikash Patra	765	0.40
	Independent	Subrata Guria	684	0.36
Turnout			190,000	88.69	−4.02
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Jyotirmoy Kar	84,452	49.93	+0.32#
	CPI	Makhanlal Nayak	77,802	46.00	−4.39
	BJP	Asish Das	4,104	2.43
	Independent	Mohan Rana	1,113
	Independent	Prafulla Kumar Kar	981
	Independent	Shyamapada Bera	701
Turnout			169,153	92.71
	AITC gain from CPI		Swing	4.71#

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

1977-2006

Kamakhya Nandan Das Mohapatra of CPI won the Patashpur assembly seat six times in a row, defeating Tapan Kanti Kar of Trinamool Congress in 2006, Mrinal Kanti Das of Trinamool Congress in 2001, Paresh Chandra Bhunia of Congress in 1996, Sunil Pal of Congress in 1991, Pradyot Kumar Mahanti of Congress in 1987 and Radha Nath Das Adhikary of Congress in 1982. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Janmejoy Ojha of Janata Party defeated Barendra Nath Patra of Congress in 1977.^[5]

1951-1972

Prafulla Maity of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. K.D.Mahapatra (Kamakhya Nandan Das Mahapatra) of CPI won in 1969 and 1967. Radhanath Das Adhikari of Congress won in 1962. Sisir Kumar Das of PSP won in 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951 Janardan Sahu of BJS won the Pataspur assembly seat.^[6]