| Kharagpur | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 228 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Kharagpur Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Paschim Medinipur |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Medinipur |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 166,811 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Kharagpur Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inPaschim Medinipur district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per orders of theDelimitation Commission, No. 228 Kharagpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following:Kharagpur Icommunity development block, and Banpura, Panchkhuri I, Panchkhuri II, Pathra and Shiromonigram panchayats ofMidnapore Sadar community development block.[1]
Kharagpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 34Medinipur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Mrityunjoy Jana | Indian National Congress | |
| 1987 | Sheikh Najmul Haque | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1991 | |||
| 1996 | |||
| 2001 | |||
| 2006 | |||
| 2011 | |||
| 2016 | Dinen Roy | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2021 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | |||||
| BJP | |||||
| LF | |||||
| INC | |||||
| NOTA | None of the above | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Swing | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Dinen Roy | 109,727 | 54.85 | ||
| BJP | Tapan Bhuya | 73,497 | 36.74 | ||
| CPI(M) | Syed Saddam Ali | 11,245 | 5.62 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,314 | 1.16 | ||
| HUMP | Sekh Abdur Rahaman | 1,690 | 0.84 | ||
| Majority | 36,230 | 18.31 | |||
| Turnout | 2,00,563 | 88.32 | |||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Dinen Roy | 85,630 | 48.43 | ||
| CPI(M) | Sk Sajahan Ali | 66,531 | 37.63 | ||
| BJP | Goutam Bhattacharjee | 17,722 | 10.02 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,461 | 1.39 | ||
| SUCI(C) | Manik Chandra Poria | 2,402 | 1.36 | ||
| Majority | 19,099 | 10.80 | |||
| Turnout | 1,77,124 | 88.94 | |||
| AITCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Sheikh Najmul Haque | 70,178 | 46.78 | −7.18 | |
| AITC | Bilkis Khanam | 67,674 | 45.11 | +3.38# | |
| IND | Shuba Raj | 4,092 | 2.73 | ||
| BJP | Prabir Kumar Sahu | 3,648 | 2.43 | ||
| PDS | Balaram Pal | 2,074 | 1.38 | ||
| Majority | 2,504 | 1.67 | |||
| Turnout | 1,50,153 | 89.96 | |||
| CPI(M)hold | Swing | -9.56# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
Sheikh Najmul Haque ofCPI(M) won the Kharagpur Rural assembly seat five times in a row from 1987 to 2006. He defeated Ajit Maity ofTrinamool Congress in2006 and 2001, Ranjit Basu ofCongress in 1996, Nirmal Ghosh of Congress in 1991 and Ranjit Basu of Congress in 1987.Sheikh Siraj Ali of CPI(M) defeated Deben Das, Independent, in 1982 Deben Das ofCPI in 1977. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned.[4]
Between 1957 and 1972 the seat was known as Kharagpur Local. Ajit Kumar Basu of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Deben Das ofCPI won in 1969 and 1967. Mrityunjoy Jana of Congress won in1962. Kharagpur Local was a dual seat in1957. It was won by Krishna Prasad Mondal and Mrityunjoy Jana, both of Congress. Inindependent India's first election in 1951, Kharagpur had a single seat, which was won byMoulana Muhammad Momtaz of Congress.[5]
