| Khejuri | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 215 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Khejuri Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Purba Medinipur |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Kanthi |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 2,38,630 |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | BJP |
| Alliance | NDA |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Khejuri Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inPurba Medinipur district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal. It is reserved forscheduled castes.
As per orders of theDelimitation Commission, No. 215 Khejuri Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following:Khejuri I andKhejuri IIcommunity development blocks, and Garbari I and Garbari IIgram panchayats ofBhagabanpur II community development block.[1]
Khejuri Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 31Kanthi (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Khejuri | |||
| 2011 | Ranajit Mondal | Trinamool Congress | |
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | Santanu Pramanik | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Santanu Pramanik | 110,407 | 51.93 |  42.99 | |
| AITC | Partha Pratim Das | 92,442 | 43.48 |  10.82 | |
| CPI(M) | Himangshu Das | 7,812 | 3.67 | New | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 1,136 | 0.53 | 0.84 | |
| Majority | 17,965 | 8.45 | 13.8 | ||
| Turnout | 2,12,621 | 89.1 | 0.29 | ||
| BJPgain fromAITC | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Ranajit Mondal | 103,699 | 54.3 | 1.19 | |
| Independent | Ashim Kumar Mondal | 61,214 | 32.05 | New | |
| BJP | Patra Swadesh Ranjan | 17,064 | 8.94 | 6.57 | |
| SP | Raghunath Das | 3,473 | 1.82 | 41.52 | |
| SUCI(C) | Tapas Maity | 2,891 | 1.51 | New | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 2,625 | 1.37 | New | |
| Majority | 42,485 | 22.25 | 12.48 | ||
| Turnout | 1,90,966 | 89.39 | 3.78 | ||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Ranajit Mondal | 87,833 | 53.11 | 13.73 | |
| SP | Ashim Kumar Mondal | 71,673 | 43.34 | 14.48 | |
| BJP | Kalipada Mandal | 3,924 | 2.37 | ||
| Independent | Sachchidananda Das | 1,939 | 1.17 | ||
| Majority | 16,160 | 22.25 | 12.48 | ||
| Turnout | 1,65,369 | 9.77 | |||
| AITCgain fromSP | Swing | 28.21 | |||
In the2006 state assembly elections, Swadesh Patra ofWBSP won the Khejuri assembly seat (SC) defeating his nearest rival Dr. Partha Pratim Das ofTrinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi-cornered, but only winners and runners are mentioned here. Sunirmal Paik of WBSP defeated Ram Chandra Mandal of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Ram Chandra Mandal representingCPI(M) defeated Sunirmal Paik representingCongress in 1996. Sunirmal Paik representing CPI(M) defeated Santiram Das of Congress in 1991. Sunirmal Paik, Independent, defeated Susanta Mandal of Congress in 1987 and 1982. Sunirmal Paik ofJanata Party defeated Sunil Sit of CPI(M) in 1977.[5]
Bimal Paik of Congress won in 1972. Jagadish Chandra Das of CPI(M) won in 1971. Paresh Das ofBangla Congress won in 1969. B.Paik of Congress won in 1967. Abanti Kumar Das of Congress won in1962. The Khejuri seat was not there in 1957. Khejuri had a dual seat inindependent India's first election in 1951. It was won by Koustav Kanti Karan andAbha Maiti, both of Congress.[6]
