| Jamalpur | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 262 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Jamalpur Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Purba Bardhaman |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Bardhaman Purba |
| Established | 1962 |
| Total electors | 187,502 |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Jamalpur Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inPurba Bardhaman district in the Indianstate ofWest Bengal. It is reserved forscheduled castes.
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 262 Jamalpur (SC) assembly constituency coversJamalpur community development block and Mugura gram panchayat ofRaina I community development block.[1]
Jamalpur assembly segment was earlier part ofBurdwan (Lok Sabha constituency). As per orders of Delimitation Commission it is part of No. 38Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| Election Year | Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Jamalpur | Mrityunjoy Pramanik | Indian National Congress[2] | |
| 1967 | Puranjoy Pramanik[3] | |||
| 1969 | Basudeb Malik | Bangla Congress[4] | ||
| 1971 | Kalipada Das | Marxist Forward Bloc[5] | ||
| 1972 | Puranjoy Pramanik | Indian National Congress[6] | ||
| 1977 | Sunil Santra | Marxist Forward Bloc[7] | ||
| 1982 | Sunil Santra | Independent[8] | ||
| 1987 | Sunil Santra[9] | |||
| 1991 | Samar Hazra | Communist Party of India[10] | ||
| 1996 | Samar Hazra[11] | |||
| 2001 | Samar Hazra[12] | |||
| 2006 | Samar Hazra | Independent[13][14] | ||
| 2011 | Ujjal Pramanik | All India Trinamool Congress[15] | ||
| 2016 | Samar Hazra | Communist Party of India[16][17] | ||
| 2021 | Alok Kumar Majhi | All India Trinamool Congress[18] | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Alok Kumar Majhi | 96,999 | 46.93 |  3.14 | |
| BJP | Balaram Bapari | 79,028 | 38.23 | 30.37 | |
| CPI(M) | Samar Hazra | 23,298 | 11.27 |  33.26 | |
| BSP | Gaurhari Patra | 2,024 | 0.98 | 0.01 | |
| BMUP | Kartick Khetrapal | 1,291 | 0.62 | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Tarun Kanti Majhi | 1,185 | 0.57 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,865 | 1.39 | ||
| Turnout | 206,690 | ||||
| AITCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | ||||
Samar Hazra, originally belonging to theMFB party, fought in this election with the symbol ofCPI (M).
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Samar Hazra | 85,491 | 44.53 | −2.74 | |
| AITC | Ujjal Pramanik | 84,068 | 43.79 | −4.94 | |
| BJP | Pallab Kumar Roy | 15,094 | 7.86 | +6.07 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,616 | 1.36 | +1.36 | |
| BSP | Bankim Santra | 1,902 | 0.99 | ||
| Turnout | 1,91,986 | 88.60 | −3.8 | ||
| CPI(M)gain fromAITC | Swing | ||||
Samar Hazra, originally belonging to theMFB party, fought and won in this election with the symbol ofCPI (M).
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Ujjal Pramanik | 84,434 | 48.73 | +15.38# | |
| MFB | Samar Hazra | 81,891 | 47.27 | −16.34 | |
| BJP | Subrata Mallick | 3,102 | 1.79 | ||
| People's Democratic Conference of India | Rabindranath Bag | 1,721 | |||
| JDP | Pratap Malik | 1,149 | |||
| BSP | Suranjan Halder | 958 | |||
| Turnout | 173,255 | 92.4 | |||
| AITCgain fromMFB | Swing | +31.72# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
In2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991,Samar Hazra,Marxist Forward Bloc won the Jamalpur (SC) assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals, Shankar Chandra Mallick ofTrinamool Congress, Ajay Pramanik of Trinamool Congress, Baidyanath Das ofCongress and Ajay Pramnik of Congress, in the respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 1987, 1982 and 1977, Sunil Santra, MFB, defeated Puranjoy Pramanik of Congress/ ICS.[22]
Puranjoy Pramanik of Congress won the seat in 1972. Kalipada Das of MFB won the seat in 1971. Basudeb Pramanik of Bangla Congress won the seat in 1969. Puranjoy Pramanik of Congress won the seat in 1967. Mrityunjoy Pramanik of Congress won the seat in1962. Prior to that the seat did not exist.[23]
