Ratua Assembly constituency

Ratua Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Ratua
Constituency No. 48 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Ratua Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Malda
Lok Sabha constituency	Maldaha Uttar
Established	1951
Total electors	282,451
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Samar Mukherjee
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 48 Ratua Assembly constituency covers Ratua I community development block and Araidanga, Paranpur, Pukuria and Sambalpur gram panchayats of Ratua II community development block.^[1]

Ratua Assembly constituency is part of No. 7 Maldaha Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1] It was earlier part of Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Ratua	Md. Sayeed Mia	Indian National Congress[2]
1957		Sourindra Mohan Mishra	Indian National Congress[3]
1957		Dhaneswar Saha	Indian National Congress[3]
1962		Dhaneswar Saha	Indian National Congress[4]
1967		Sourindra Mohan Mishra	Indian National Congress[5]
1969		Mohammad Ali	Independent[6]
1971		Nirendra Chandra Sinha	Indian National Congress[7]
1972		Nirendra Chandra Sinha	Indian National Congress[8]
1977		Mohammad Ali	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982		Samar Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[10]
1987		Mumtaz Begum	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1991		Mumtaz Begum	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1996		Samar Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[13]
2001		Sailen Sarkar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2006		Sailen Sarkar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
2011		Samar Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[16]

Election results

2021

In the 2021 election, Samar Mukherjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival, Abhishek Singhania of BJP.

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Ratua

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Samar Mukherjee	130,674	59.63	+31.01
	BJP	Abhishek Singhania	55,024	25.11	+11.29
	INC	Najema Khatun	16,173	7.38	−44.48
	Independent	Payel Khatun	8,628	3.94
	WPOI	Arafat Ali	2,102	0.96	−1.34
	NOTA	None of the above	2,051	0.94	−0.23
	BSP	Chaitanya Rabidas	1,682	0.77	−0.05
	Independent	Ashok Chowdhury	1,387	0.63
	Independent	Sabina Easmin	856	0.39
	Independent	Sk. Israil	571	0.26
Turnout			219,148	83.06	+5.31
	AITC gain from INC		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Samar Mukherjee of Congress defeated his nearest rival, Shehnaz Quadery of Trinamool Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Ratua constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Samar Mukherjee	96,517	51.86	+3.52
	AITC	Shehnaz Quadery	53,312	28.62
	BJP	Sanjay Kumar Saha	25,746	13.82	+11.59
	WPOI	Arafat Ali	4,290	2.30
	NOTA	None of the above	2,181	1.17
	Independent	Emdadul Haque	1,572	0.84
	BSP	Md. Kabatulla	1,531	0.82
	BMP	Sekh Alamin	1,029	0.55
Turnout			186,248	77.75	−2.65
	INC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Samar Mukherjee of Congress defeated his nearest rival Sailen Sarkar of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Ratua constituency^[16][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Samar Mukherjee	74,936	48.34	+3.63#
	CPI(M)	Sailen Sarkar	68,075	43.92	−4.45
	Independent	Imadul Hoque	5,068	3.27
	BJP	Dilip Agorwalla	3,457	2.23
	Independent	Ashoke Kumar Saha	1,856
	Independent	Ataur	1,622
Turnout			155,014	80.40
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+8.08#

.# Swing based on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentage in 2011.

1977–2006

In the 2006^[15] and 2001^[14] state assembly elections, Sailen Sarkar of CPI(M) won the Ratua assembly seat defeating Asit Bose and Samar Mukherjee, both of Congress, respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Samar Mukherjee of Congress defeated Mozammel Haque of CPI(M) in 1996.^[13] Mumtaz Begum of CPI(M) defeated Biswanath Guha and Niren Chandra Sinha, both of Congress, in 1991^[12] and 1987^[11] respectively. Samar Mukherjee of Congress defeated Mohammad Ali of CPI(M) in 1982.^[10] Mohammad Ali of CPI(M) defeated Niren Chandra Sinha of Congress in 1977.^[9][18]

1951–1972

Nirendra Chandra Sinha of Congress won in 1972^[8] and 1971.^[7] Mohammad Ali, Independent, won in 1969.^[6] Sourindra Mohan Mishra of Congress won in 1967.^[5] Dhanswar Saha of Congress won the Ratua seat in 1962.^[4] Ratua was a joint seat in 1957.^[3] Sourindra Mohan Mishra and Dhaneswar Saha, both of Congress, won in 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, Md. Sayeed Mia of Congress won the Ratua seat.^[2]