Tamluk Assembly constituency

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

Tamluk
Constituency No. 203 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Tamluk Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Medinipur
Lok Sabha constituency	Tamluk
Established	1951
Total electors	209,751
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Dr. Soumen Mahapatra
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 203 Tamluk Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Tamluk municipality, Bishnubarh II, Pipulberia I, Pipulberia II and Uttar Sonamui gram panchayats of Tamluk community development block, and Sahid Matangini community development block.^[1]

Tamluk Assembly constituency is part of No. 30 Tamluk (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Tamluk	Ajoy Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[2][3][4]
1957
1962
1967			Bangla Congress[5][6][7]
1967 by-poll		Ajoy Malakar
1969		Ajoy Mukherjee
1971			Indian National Congress[8][9]
1972
1977		Biswanath Mukherjee	Communist Party of India[10][11][12]
1982
1987		Surajit Bagchi
1991		Anil Mudi	Indian National Congress[13][14]
1996
2001		Nirbed Roy	Trinamool Congress[15]
2006		Jagannath Mitra	Communist Party of India[16]
2011		Dr. Soumen Mahapatra	Trinamool Congress[17]
2016		Ashok Dinda	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021		Dr. Soumen Mahapatra	Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Tamluk

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dr. Soumen Mahapatra	108,243	45.86	+0.86
	BJP	Hare Krishna Bera	107,450	45.52	+38.82
	CPI	Goutam Panda	14,718	6.24	−38.96
	SUCI(C)	Jnanananda Roy	2,756	1.17	−0.83
	NOTA	None of the above	1,136	0.48	−0.64
	Independent	Bhim Patra	774	0.33
	Independent	Sandip Batabyal	762	0.32
	AMB	Sulalit Mallick	192	0.08
Majority			793	0.34	+0.14
Turnout			236,031	92.33	+4.50
	AITC gain from CPI		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Tamluk

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Ashok Dinda	95,432	45.20	+3.32
	AITC	Nirbed Roy	94,912	45.00	−7.82
	BJP	Biswajit Dutta	14,144	6.70	+3.83
	SUCI(C)	Satish Saw	4,244	2.00
	NOTA	None of the above	2,394	1.12
	Independent	Gautam Dutta	874	0.40
	Bharat Nirman Party	Ranjan Malakar	758	0.40
	Rashtriya Janadhikar Suraksha Party	Tapas Chakraborty	329	0.20
	Indian Unity Centre	Rejman Mullick	323	0.20
Majority			520	0.20
Turnout			213,410	87.83	−2.21
	CPI gain from AITC		Swing

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Tamluk^[18][19][20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dr. Soumen Mahapatra	99,765	52.82	+6.94#
	CPI	Jagannath Mitra	79,089	41.88	−40454
	BJP	Malay Kumar Singha	5,423	2.87
	Independent	Ram Chandra Maity	1,610
	People’s Democratic Conference of India	Khairuddin Rahaman	1,563
	Indian Unity Centre	Ataul Rahaman Bhunya	1,414
Turnout			188,864	90.04
	AITC gain from CPI		Swing	14.06#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections Jagannath Mitra of CPI won the 203 Tamluk assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Chittaranjan Maiti of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Nirbed Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated Santosh Rana of CPI in 2001. Anil Mudi of Congress defeated Surajit Bagchi of CPI in 1996 and 1991. Surajit Bagchi of CPI defeated Anil Mudi of Congress in 1987. Biswanath Mukherjee of CPI defeated Sukumar Das representing ICS in 1982 and representing Congress in 1977.^[21]

1951-1972

Ajoy Mukherjee representing Indian National Congress won in 1972, representing Bangla Congress won in 1971, 1969 and 1967, and earlier representing Congress won in 1962, 1957 and in independent India's first election in 1951.^[22]