Pursurah Assembly constituency

Pursurah Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Pursurah
Constituency No. 199 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Pursurah Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly
Lok Sabha constituency	Arambagh
Established	1967
Total electors	213,942
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Biman Ghosh
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 199 Pursurah Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Pursurah community development block, along with Arunda, Balipur, Rammohan I, Rammohan II and Tantisal gram panchayats of Khanakul I community development block, and Harinkhola I and Harinkhola II gram panchayats of Arambagh community development block.^[1]

Pursurah Assembly constituency is part of No. 29 Arambagh (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1967	Santi Mohan Roy		Indian National Congress
1969
1971	Mahadeb Mukhopadhyay
1972
1977	Manoranjan Hazra		Communist Party of India
1982	Santi Mohan Roy		Indian National Congress
1987	Bishnupada Bera		Communist Party of India
1991
1996	Nimai Mal
2001
2006	Saumendra Nath Bera
2011	Parvez Rahaman		All India Trinamool Congress
2016	Dr. M. Nuruzzaman
2021	Biman Ghosh		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Pursurah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Biman Ghosh	119,334	53.50	+44.62
	AITC	Dilip Yadav	91,156	40.86	−10.24
	INC	Monika Malik Ghosh	7,828	3.51	−33.45
	NOTA	None of the above	2,788	1.25	−0.52
	Independent	Chiranjit Barik	1,968	0.88
Turnout			223,074	88.55	+2.22
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Pursurah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dr. M. Nuruzzaman	105,275	51.10
	INC	Pratim Singha Roy	76,148	36.96	−19.67
	BJP	Subhendu Mukherjee	18,296	8.88
	NOTA	None of the above	3,646	1.77
	Independent	Jhantu Saha	2,649	1.29
Turnout			206,014	86.33	−3.23
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Sk. Parvez Rahman of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Soumendranath Bera of CPI(M).

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Parvez Rahaman	107,794	56.26	+15.65#
	CPI(M)	Soumendranath Bera	76,104	39.72	−19.67
	BJP	Sukumar Dhara	7,718	4.03
Turnout			191,616	89.56
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	35.32#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006^[4] state assembly elections Saumendranath Bera of CPI(M) won the Pursurah assembly seat defeating Sk. Parvez Rahman of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Nimai Mal of CPI(M) defeated Sk. Pervez Rahman of Trinamool Congress in 2001^[5] and Gour Mohan Maity of Congress in 1996.^[6] Bishnupada Bera of CPI(M) defeated Bibhuti Bhusan Roy of Congress in 1991^[7] and Santi Mohun Roy of Congress in 1987.^[8] Santi Mohun Roy of Congress defeated Bishnupada Bera of CPI(M) in 1982.^[9] Manoranjan Hazra of CPI(M) defeated Durga Charan Chakrabarty of Janata Party in 1977.^[10][11]

1967-1972

Mahadeb Mukhopadhyay of Congress won in 1972^[12] and 1971.^[13] Santi Mohan Roy of Congress won in 1969^[14] and 1967.^[15] Prior to that the Pursurah seat did not exist.