Raniganj, West Bengal Assembly constituency

For other uses, see Raniganj (disambiguation).

Raniganj Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Raniganj
Constituency No. 278 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Raniganj Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Paschim Bardhaman
Lok Sabha constituency	Asansol
Established	1951
Total electors	196,907
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Tapas Banerjee
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 278, Raniganj assembly constituency covers Ward nos. 33–37, 88-93 of Asansol Municipal Corporation and Andal community development block.^[1]

Raniganj assembly segment is part of No. 40 Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1951	Pashupatinath Malia		Independent politician
	Banku Behari Mandal		Indian National Congress
1957	No seat
1962	Lakshan Bagdi		Communist Party of India
1967	Haradhan Roy		Communist Party of India
1969
1971
1972
1977
1982
1987	Bansa Gopal Chowdhury
1991
1996
2001
2006	Haradhan Jha
2011	Ali Sohrab		All India Trinamool Congress
2016	Runu Dutta		Communist Party of India
2021	Tapas Banerjee		All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Raniganj^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Adv. Tapas Banerjee	78,164	42.90	+24.84
	BJP	Dr. Bijan Mukherjee	74,608	40.95	+22.60
	CPI(M)	Hemant Kumar Prabhakar	21,658	11.90	−71.12
	NOTA	None of the above	2,006	1.10
	JD(U)	Raj Kumar	1,612	0.88
Majority			3,556	1.97
Turnout			1,82,257	72.67
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Raniganj^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Runu Dutta	74,995	42.32	−4.38
	AITC	Nargis Bano	62,610	35.33	−12.50
	BJP	Manish Sharma	32,214	18.17	+14.66
	BSP	Ajit Badyakar	2,599	1.46
	BMP	Mamoni Orang	2,081	1.17
	NOTA	None of the above	2,708	1.52
Majority			12,385	6.99
Turnout			1,77,288	77.31
	CPI(M) gain from AITC		Swing

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Raniganj^[4][5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Md. Sohrab Ali	73,810	47.83	+14.99#
	CPI(M)	Runu Dutta	72,059	46.70	−25.59
	BJP	Shobhapati Singh	5,423	3.51
	JD(U)	Rajkumar Paswan	3,016	1.95
Majority			1,751	1.13
Turnout			1,54,453	78.35
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+40.58#

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

1977–2006

In the 2006 state assembly election, the Raniganj assembly seat was won by Haradhan Jha of CPI (M). He defeated his nearest rival Jitendra Tiwari of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, 1996, 1991 and 1987, Bansa Gopal Chowdhury of CPI (M) won the seat defeating his nearest rivals Sampa Sarkar, Senapati Mondal, Sankar Dutta and Kalyani Biswas (all of Congress) in the respective years. In 1982 and 1977, Haradhan Roy of CPI (M) defeated Hare Krishna Goswami and Sarojakshya Mukherjee (both of Congress) in the respective years.^[7]

1951–1972

Haradhan Roy of CPI(M) won in 1972, 1971, 1969 and 1967. Lakhan Bagdi of CPI won in 1962. The Raniganj seat was not there in 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, Banku Behari Mandal of Congress won the Raniganj seat.^[8]