| Ketugram | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 271 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Ketugram Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Purba Bardhaman |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Bolpur |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 197,770 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Ketugram Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inPurba Bardhaman district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission No. 271 Ketugram assembly constituency coversKetugram I andKetugram II blocks and Koshigram and Srikhanda gram panchayats ofKatwa I block.[1]
Ketugram (SC) assembly constituency was earlier a part ofBaharampur (Lok Sabha constituency). As per orders of the Delimitation Commission Ketugram assembly constituency is part of No. 41Bolpur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Tarapada Bandopadhyay | Hindu Mahasabha | |
| 1957 | Sankar Dass | Indian National Congress | |
| Abdus Sattar | |||
| 1962 | Sreemohan Thakur | Communist Party of India | |
| 1967 | P. Mandal | Indian National Congress | |
| 1969 | Ramgoti Mondal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1971 | Nirmal Chandra Mandal | ||
| 1972 | Prabhakar Mandal | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | Raicharan Majhi | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1982 | |||
| 1987 | |||
| 1991 | |||
| 1996 | Tamal Majhi | ||
| 2001 | Tamal Chandra Majhi | ||
| 2006 | |||
| 2011 | Sekh Sahonawez | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sekh Sahonawez | 100,226 | 46.55 |  0.35 | |
| BJP | Anadi Ghosh (Mathura) | 87,543 | 40.66 | 32.06 | |
| CPI(M) | Mizanul Kabir (Dhiraj) | 20,092 | 9.33 | ||
| BSP | Dr. Manik Chandra Pradhan | 2,293 | 1.06 | ||
| SUCI(C) | Satya Narayan Mondal | 1,543 | 0.72 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,620 | 1.68 | ||
| Turnout | 215,317 | ||||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sekh Sahonawez | 89,441 | 46.2 | ||
| CPI(M) | Abdul Kadar Syed | 80,712 | 41.69 | ||
| BJP | Bankubihari Ghosh | 16,641 | 8.6 | ||
| SUCI(C) | M.H.Munsi (Kachi Munsi) | 2,391 | 1.24 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 4,414 | 2.28 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 193,599 | 83.34 | |||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sk. Sahanawez | 77,323 | 45.70 | 5.04 | |
| CPI(M) | Syed Abdul Kader | 75,724 | 44.75 |  14.64 | |
| BJP | Debobrato Bose | 11,051 | 6.53 | ||
| Independent | Kazi Safikur Rahaman | 5,109 | |||
| Turnout | 169.207 | 85.56 | |||
| AITCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | +19.68# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages in 2006 taken together.
Tamal Chandra Majhi ofCPI(M) won the Ketugram (SC) assembly seat defeating Amar Ram ofCongress in2006 and 2001, and Narayan Chandra Poddar of Congress in 1996. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Raicharan Majhi of CPI(M) defeated Chand Kumar Saha ofBJP in 1991, Prabahakar Mandal of Congress in 1987, Lal Mohan Saha of Congress in 1982 and Prabhakar Mandal of Congress in 1977.[8]
Prabakar Mondal of Congress won the Ketugram seat in 1972. Nirmal Chandra Mandal of CPI(M) won in 1971. Ramgati Mandal of CPI(M) won in 1969. P.Mandal of Congress won in 1967. Sree Mohan Thakur ofCPI won in1962. Ketugram had a joint seat in1957. It was won by Sankar Dass and Abdus Sattar, both of Congress. Inindependent India's first election in 1951 Tarapada Bandopadhya ofHindu Mahasabha won the Ketugram seat.[9]
