Type: | LS |
Bankura | |
Established: | 1951 |
Reservation: | None |
Party: | Trinamool Congress |
Latest Election Year: | 2024 |
State: | West Bengal |
Assembly Cons: | Raghunathpur Saltora Chhatna Ranibandh Raipur Taldangra Bankura |
Electors: | 17,80,580[1] |
Bankura Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. While six assembly segments of No. 36 Bankura Lok Sabha constituency are in Bankura district, one assembly segment is in Purulia district.
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 36 Bankura is composed of the following assembly segments:[2]
Constituency number | Name | Reserved for (SC/ST/None) | District | Party | 2024 Lead |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
246 | Raghunathpur | SC | Purulia | BJP | TMC |
247 | Saltora | Bankura | BJP | TMC | |
248 | Chhatna | None | BJP | TMC | |
249 | Ranibandh | ST | TMC | TMC | |
250 | Raipur | TMC | TMC | ||
251 | Taldangra | None | TMC | BJP | |
252 | Bankura | None | BJP | BJP | |
Prior to delimitation, Bankura Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[3] Para (SC) (assembly constituency no. 240), Raghunathpur (SC) (assembly constituency no. 241), Kashipur (ST) (assembly constituency no. 242), Hura (assembly constituency no. 243), Chhatna (assembly constituency no. 248), Bankura (assembly constituency no. 251) and Onda (assembly constituency no. 252)
Lok Sabha | Duration | Constituency | Name of M.P. | Party Affiliation | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
First | 1952-57 | Bankura | Pashupati Mandal | [4] | |
Jagannath Kolay | |||||
Second | 1957-62 | Ramgati Banerjee[5] | |||
Pasupati Mandal | |||||
Third | 1962-67 | Ramgati Banerjee[6] | |||
Fourth | 1967-71 | J.M. Biswas | [7] | ||
1971-77 | Sankar Narayan Singh Deo | [8] | |||
Sixth | 1977-80 | Bijoy Mondal | [9] | ||
Seventh | 1980-84 | Basudeb Acharia[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] | |||
Eighth | 1984-89 | ||||
Ninth | 1989-91 | ||||
Tenth | 1991-96 | ||||
Eleventh | 1996-98 | ||||
Twelfth | 1998-99 | ||||
Thirteenth | 1999-04 | ||||
Fourteenth | 2004-09 | ||||
Fifteenth | 2009-14 | ||||
Sixteenth | 2014-19 | Moon Moon Sen | [19] | ||
Seventeenth | 2019-24 | Subhas Sarkar | |||
Eighteenth | 2024-Incumbent | Arup Chakraborty |
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are generally mentioned below:
Year | Voters | Voter Turnout | Winner | Runners up | ||||
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%age | Candidate | %age | Party | Candidate | %age | Party | ||
1951* | 565,367 | 39.28 | Jagganath Koley | 19.26 | Indian National Congress | Atul Patra | 15.94 | Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha |
Pashupati Mandal | 17.03 | Indian National Congress | ||||||
1957* | 609,454 | 37.77 | Pasupati Mandal | 25.05 | Indian National Congress | Biswanath Bauri | 13.66 | Independent |
Ramgati Banerjee | 24.78 | Indian National Congress | ||||||
1962 | 151,859 | 33.47 | Ramgati Banerjee | 51.13 | Indian National Congress | Kanai Lal De | 31.34 | Praja Socialist Party |
1967 | 273,639 | 52.55 | J.M.Biswas | 46.53 | Communist Party of India | Atulya Ghosh | 35.04 | Indian National Congress |
1971 | 262,110 | 48.02 | Sankar Narayan Singh Deo | 33.01 | Indian National Congress | Mahadeb Mukherjee | 22.64 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
1977 | 320,480 | 53.11 | Bijoy Mondal | 57.04 | Bharatiya Lok Dal | Shankar Narayan Singh Deo | 31.04 | Indian National Congress |
1980 | 459,860 | 63.79 | Basudeb Acharia | 45.04 | CPI(M) | Shankar Narayan Singh Deo | 35.13 | Indian National Congress(I) |
1984 | 567,300 | 73.57 | Basudeb Acharia | 48.62 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Arun Kumar Bhattacharya | 44,23 | Indian National Congress |
1989 | 694,890 | 75.92 | Basudeb Acharia | 55.91 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Ashis Chakrabarty | 37.66 | Indian National Congress |
1991 | 682,530 | 72.43 | Basudeb Acharia | 56.32 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Brajabasi Biswas | 28.82 | Indian National Congress |
1996 | 7774, 920 | 77.95 | Basudeb Achatia | 56.24 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Gouri Sankar Dey | 25.61 | Indian National Congress |
1998 | 766.640 | 74.52 | Basudeb Acharia | 49.42 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Sukumar Banerjee | 34.51 | Bharatiya Janata Party |
1999 | 741,300 | 71.19 | Basudeb Acharia | 52.73 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Natabar Bagdi | 37.95 | Independent |
2004 | 695,980 | 68.23 | Basudeb Acharia | 60.07 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Deb Prasad Kundu | 26.96 | All India Trinamool Congress |