| Burwan | |
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| Constituency No. 67 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Burwan Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Murshidabad |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Baharampur |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 217,500 |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Burwan is anassembly constituency inMurshidabad district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal. It is reserved forscheduled castes.
As per orders of theDelimitation Commission, No. 67 Burwan Assembly constituency (SC) covers Biprasekhar, Burwan I, Burwan II, Kharjuna, Kuli, Kurunnorun, Panchthupi, Sabaldaha, Sabalpur, Sahora and Sundarpurgram panchayats ofBurwancommunity development block and Gadda, Jajan and Gundiria gram panchayats ofBharatpur I community development block.[1]
Burwan Assembly constituency is part of No. 10Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Satyendra Chandra Ghosh Moulik | Indian National Congress | |
| Sudhir Mondal | |||
| 1957 | No seat | ||
| 1962 | No seat | ||
| 1967 | Amalendralal Roy | Revolutionary Socialist Party | |
| 1969 | |||
| 1971 | Sunil Mohan Ghosh Moulik | Indian National Congress | |
| 1972 | |||
| 1977 | Amalendralal Roy | Revolutionary Socialist Party | |
| 1982 | |||
| 1987 | |||
| 1991 | Debabrata Banerjee | ||
| 1996 | |||
| 2001 | Amalendralal Roy | ||
| 2006 | Biswanath Banerjee | ||
| 2011 | Protima Rajak | Indian National Congress | |
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | Jiban Krishna Saha | Trinamool Congress | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Jiban Krishna Saha | 81,890 | 46.32 |  19.33 | |
| BJP | Amiya Kumar Das | 79,141 | 44.76 | 34.57 | |
| INC | Shiladitya Haldar | 12,260 | 6.93 |  29.96 | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 2,008 | 1.14 | 1.03 | |
| Independent | Naresh Kumar Das | 1,504 | 0.85 | New | |
| Majority | 2,749 | 1.56 | 8.34 | ||
| Turnout | 1,76,803 | 81.29 | 3.34 | ||
| AITCgain fromINC | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Protima Rajak | 55,906 | 36.99 | 10.2 | |
| AITC | Shasthi Charan Mal | 40,904 | 26.99 | New | |
| RSP | Binoy Sarkar | 33,040 | 21.8 | 24.85 | |
| BJP | Amiya Kumar Das | 15,440 | 10.19 | 3.93 | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 3,290 | 2.17 | N/A | |
| SP | Ranjit Das | 1,876 | 1.24 | New | |
| Independent | Jata Shankar Thandar | 1,094 | 0.72 | New | |
| Majority | 15,002 | 9.9 | 9.46 | ||
| Turnout | 1,51,550 | 77.95 | 5.29 | ||
| INChold | Swing | ||||
In the 2011 election, Protima Rajak of Congress defeated her nearest rival Binoy Sarkar of RSP.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Protima Rajak | 66,304 | 47.09 | −1.60# | |
| RSP | Binoy Sarkar | 65,688 | 46.65 | −1.36 | |
| BJP | Sukhnen Kumar Bagdi | 8,809 | 6.26 | ||
| Turnout | 140,801 | 83.31 | |||
| INCgain fromRSP | Swing | 0.24 | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. Considering the Congress vote percentage alone in 2006, the swing was +5.37%.
In the2006 state assembly elections[4] Biswanath Banerjee ofRSP won the Barwan assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Arit Majumdar ofCongress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Amalendralal Roy of RSP defeated Tapas Dasgupta of Congress in 2001.[5] Debabrata Banerjee of RSP defeated Ali Hossain Mondal of Congress in 1996,[6] and Sudip Mohan Ghosh Moulik of Congress in 1991.[7] Amalendra Roy of RSP defeated Gadadar Ghosh of Congress in 1987,[8] Ali Hossain Mondal of Congress in 1982,[9] and Sunil Mohan Ghosh Moulik of Congress in 1977.[10][11]
Sunil Mohan Ghosh Moulik of Congress won in 1972[12] and 1971.[13] Amalendra Lal Roy of RSP won in 1969[14] and 1967.[15] The Burwan seat was not there in 1962[16] and 1957.[17] Inindependent India's first election in 1951 Burwan Khargram was a joint seat Satyendra Chandra Ghosh Moulik and Sudhir Mondal, both of Congress, jointly won the Burwan Khargram seat.[18]
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