| Para | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 245 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Para Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Purulia |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Purulia |
| Established | 1962 |
| Total electors | 184,034 |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | BJP |
| Alliance | NDA |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Para Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inPurulia district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal. It is reserved forscheduled castes.
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 245 Para Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following:Para andRaghunathpur IIcommunity development blocks.[1]
Para Assembly constituency is part of No. 35Purulia (Lok Sabha constituency).[1] It was earlier part ofBankura (Lok Sabha constituency).[2]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Nepal Bauri | Indian National Congress | |
| 1967 | S. Bauri | Bangla Congress | |
| 1969 | Tinkori Bauri | ||
| 1971 | Sarat Das | Indian National Congress | |
| 1972 | |||
| 1977 | Gobinda Bauri | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1982 | |||
| 1987 | |||
| 1991 | Bilasibala Sahis | ||
| 1996 | |||
| 2001 | |||
| 2006 | |||
| 2009^ | Minu Bauri | Communist Party of India | |
| 2011 | Umapada Bauri | Indian National Congress | |
| 2016 | All India Trinamool Congress | ||
| 2021 | Nadiar Chand Bouri | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Nadiar Chand Bouri | 87,347 | 45.02 | +687.48 | |
| AITC | Umapada Bauri | 83,340 | 42.95 | −1.18 | |
| CPI(M) | Swapan Kumar Bauri | 13,681 | 7.05 | −80.61 | |
| SUCI(C) | Jagannath Bauri | 1,897 | 0.98 | ||
| BSP | Sudarsan Rajwar | 1,676 | 0.86 | ||
| Independent | Swapan Bauri | 1,651 | 0.85 | ||
| Independent | Babita Bouri | 772 | 0.40 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,657 | 1.88 | ||
| Turnout | 194,021 | ||||
| BJPgain fromAITC | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Umapada Bauri | 84,337 | 47.59 | ||
| CPI(M) | Dinanath Bauri | 70,459 | 39.76 | ||
| BJP | Nadiar Chand Bouri | 11,092 | 6.26 | ||
| JMM | Gobordhan Bagdi | 2,334 | 1.32 | ||
| SUCI(C) | Mihir Kumar Sahis | 2,211 | 1.25 | ||
| Independent | Ananta Rajak | 1,532 | 0.86 | ||
| BSP | Pabitra Bauri | 898 | 0.51 | ||
| AJSU | Uttam Das | 665 | 0.38 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,676 | 2.07 | ||
| Majority | 13878 | ||||
| Turnout | 177,203 | 81.92 | |||
| AITCgain fromINC | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Umapada Bauri | 62,208 | 42.6 | +9.08# | |
| CPI(M) | Dipak Bauri | 61,622 | 42.2 | −10.45 | |
| SUCI | Shibani Bouri | 6,503 | 4.45 | ||
| JMM | Charan Bauri | 6,302 | 4.32 | ||
| BJP | Swapan Bouri | 4,681 | |||
| JVM(P) | Satyanarayan Rajwar | 3,441 | |||
| BSP | Sandip Rajwar | 1,274 | |||
| Turnout | 146,031 | 79.35 | |||
| INCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | 19.53# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. Intervening by-election ignored for comparisons.
Subsequent to the resignation of the sitting MLA, Bilasibala Sahis, after her election to the Zilla Parishad (district council),[10] Minu Bauri of CPI(M) won the Para seat in the 2009 by-elections defeating Charan Bauri ofJMM.[11][12]
In2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 Bilasibala Sahis ofCPI(M) won the Para assembly seat defeating her nearest rivals Sima Bauri ofTrinamool Congress, Mira Bauri of Trinamool Congress, Gobordhan Bagdi ofJMM andDurgadas Bauri ofCongress respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Gobinda Bauri of CPI(M) defeated Kashinath Bauri of Congress in 1987, and Sarat Das of Congress in 1982 and 1977.[13]
Sarat Das of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Tinkori Bouri ofBangla Congress won in 1969. S. Bauri of Bangla Congress won in 1967. Nepal Bauri of Congress won in1962.
