| Jamuria | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 279 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Jamuria Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Paschim Bardhaman |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Asansol |
| Established | 1957 |
| Total electors | 175,237 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Jamuria Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inPaschim Bardhaman district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 279 Jamuria assembly constituency covers Wards nos. 1-12, 32 ofAsansol Municipal Corporation,Jamuria CD Block, andRatibati gram panchayat ofRaniganj CD Block[1]
Jamuria assembly segment is part of No. 40Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Amarendra Mondal | Praja Socialist Party | |
| 1962 | Indian National Congress | ||
| 1967 | Tinkori Mondal | Samyukta Socialist Party | |
| 1969 | Amarendra Mondal | Indian National Congress | |
| 1971 | Durgadas Mondal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1972 | Amarendra Mondal | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | Bikash Chowdhury | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1982 | |||
| 1987 | |||
| 1991 | |||
| 1996 | Pelab Kabi | ||
| 2001 | |||
| 2006 | Dhirajlal Hazra | ||
| 2011 | Jahanara Khan | ||
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | Hareram Singh | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Hareram Singh | 71,002 | 42.59 | +4.30 | |
| BJP | Tapas Kumar Roy | 62,951 | 37.76 | +13.57 | |
| CPI(M) | Aishe Ghosh | 24,818 | 14.89 | −28.39 | |
| BSP | Bhanu Pratap Sharma | 2,409 | 1.45 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,353 | 1.41 | ||
| Majority | 8,051 | 4.89 | |||
| Turnout | 1,66,933 | 75.39 | |||
| AITCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Jahanara Khan | 67,214 | 43.28 | −9.54 | |
| AITC | V. Sivadasan (Dasu) | 59,457 | 38.29 | −4.41 | |
| BJP | Santosh Singh | 22,040 | 14.19 | +9.71 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,018 | 1.94 | +1.94 | |
| Majority | 7,757 | 5.00 | |||
| Turnout | 1,55,401 | 78.05 | |||
| CPI(M)hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Jahanara Khan | 72,411 | 52.82 | −15.98 | |
| AITC | Prabhat Kumar Chatterjee | 58,538 | 42.70 | +14.91# | |
| BJP | Pramod Pathak | 6,146 | 4.48 | ||
| Majority | 13,873 | 10.12 | |||
| Turnout | 1,37,161 | 78.24 | |||
| CPI(M)hold | Swing | -30.89# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages in 2006 taken together.
In the2006 state assembly election, Dhirajlal Hazra ofCPI (M) won the Jamuria assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Tapan Chakraborty ofTrinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001 and 1996,Pelab Kabi of CPI (M) defeated Shiudashan Nayar of Trinamool Congress and Santosh Adhikari ofCongress respectively. In 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977,Bikash Chowdhury of CPI (M) defeated Tapas Banerjee of Congress, Biswanath Chakraborty of Congress, Pradip Bhattacharya of ICS and Chandra Sekhar of Congress in the respective years.[8]
The Jamuria seat was won by Amarendra Mondal of Congress in 1972, Durgadas Mondal of CPI (M) in 1971, Amarendra Mondal of Congress in 1969, Tinkori Mondal ofSamyukta Socialist Party in 1967, and Amarendra Mondal of Congress in1962. Amarendra Mondal representingPraja Socialist Party had won the Jamuria seat in1957.
