| Dubrajpur | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 284 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Dubrajpur Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Birbhum |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Birbhum |
| Established | 1962 |
| Total electors | 181,978 |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | BJP |
| Alliance | NDA |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Dubrajpur Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inBirbhum district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal. It is reserved forscheduled castes.
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 284, Dubrajpur Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following:Dubrajpur municipality, Balijuri,Hetampur, Jashpur, Laxmi Narayanpur, Loba and Padumagram panchayats ofDubrajpurCD Block, andKhoyrasol CD Block.[1]
Dubrajpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 42Birbhum (Lok Sabha constituency).[1] It was earlier part ofBolpur (Lok Sabha constituency).
Source:[2]
| Election | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Bijoy Bagdi | All India Forward Bloc | |
| 2016 | Chandra Naresh Bauri | Trinamool Congress | |
| 2021 | Anup Kumar Saha | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Anup Kumar Saha | 98,083 | 47.94 |  34.09 | |
| AITC | Debabrata Saha | 94,220 | 46.05 |  5.67 | |
| AIFB | Bijoy Bagdi | 6,014 | 2.94 | 26.90 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,157 | 1.54 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| BJPgain fromAITC | Swing | ||||
In the 2016 elections, Naresh Chandra Bauri ofAITC defeated his nearest rival, Bijoy Bagdi ofAIFB.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Chandra Naresh Bauri | 94,309 | 51.72 | 5.18 | |
| AIFB | Bijoy Bagdi | 54,415 | 29.84 | 18.43 | |
| BJP | Ramprasad Das | 25,258 | 13.85 | 7.39 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,658 | 2.01 | ||
| BMUP | Khagen Das | 2,906 | 1.59 | ||
| Independent | Biswanath Bauri | 1,812 | 0.99 | ||
| AITCgain fromAIFB | Swing | ||||
| Turnout | 182,358 | 84.28 | −1.48 | ||
In the 2011 elections, Bijoy Bagdi of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Santoshi Saha of Trinamool Congress.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIFB | Bijoy Bagdi | 75,343 | 48.27 | −13.34 | |
| AITC | Santoshi Saha | 72,634 | 46.54 | +22.95# | |
| BJP | Paltu Pada Dhibar | 10,083 | 6.46 | ||
| Turnout | 156,064 | 85.76 | |||
| AIFBhold | Swing | -36.29# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly electionsBhakti Pada Ghosh ofForward Bloc won the Dubrajpur assembly seat defeating his nearests Sailen Mahata and Sattick Roy, both ofTrinamool Congress respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned.Bhakti Bhushan Mandal of Forward Bloc won the seat from 1977 to 1996, defeating Arun Kumar Chakraborty of Congress In 1996, Bishnu Charan Ghosh ofCongress in 1991, Gourhari Chandra of Congress in 1987, Nitaipada Ghosh of Congress in 1987 and Enayet Karim Choudhury of Congress in 1977.[6]
Sachi Nandan Swami of Congress won in 1972.Sheikh Manjurul Islam ofCPI(M) won in 1971. Bhakti Bhushan Mandal of Forward Bloc won in 1969. K.N.Bandopadhyay, Independent, won in 1967. Bhakti Bhushan Mandal of Forward Bloc won in 1962. Prior to that the Dubrajpur seat was not there.[7]
