| Ratua | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 48 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Ratua Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Malda |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Maldaha Uttar |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 282,451 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Ratua Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inMalda district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per orders of theDelimitation Commission, No. 48 Ratua Assembly constituency coversRatua Icommunity development block and Araidanga, Paranpur, Pukuria and Sambalpurgram panchayats ofRatua II community development block.[1]
Ratua Assembly constituency is part of No. 7Maldaha Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency).[1] It was earlier part ofRaiganj (Lok Sabha constituency).
| Election | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Md. Sayeed Mia | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | Sourindra Mohan Mishra | ||
| 1957 | Dhaneswar Saha | ||
| 1962 | |||
| 1967 | Sourindra Mohan Mishra | ||
| 1969 | Mohammad Ali | Independent politician | |
| 1971 | Nirendra Chandra Sinha | Indian National Congress | |
| 1972 | |||
| 1977 | Mohammad Ali | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1982 | Samar Mukherjee | Indian National Congress | |
| 1987 | Mumtaz Begum | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1991 | |||
| 1996 | Samar Mukherjee | Indian National Congress | |
| 2001 | Sailen Sarkar | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 2006 | |||
| 2011 | Samar Mukherjee | Indian National Congress | |
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | All India Trinamool Congress | ||
In the 2021 election, Samar Mukherjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival, Abhishek Singhania of BJP.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Samar Mukherjee | 130,674 | 59.63 | +31.01 | |
| BJP | Abhishek Singhania | 55,024 | 25.11 | +11.29 | |
| INC | Najema Khatun | 16,173 | 7.38 | −44.48 | |
| Independent | Payel Khatun | 8,628 | 3.94 | ||
| WPOI | Arafat Ali | 2,102 | 0.96 | −1.34 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,051 | 0.94 | −0.23 | |
| BSP | Chaitanya Rabidas | 1,682 | 0.77 | −0.05 | |
| Independent | Ashok Chowdhury | 1,387 | 0.63 | ||
| Independent | Sabina Easmin | 856 | 0.39 | ||
| Independent | Sk. Israil | 571 | 0.26 | ||
| Turnout | 219,148 | 83.06 | +5.31 | ||
| AITCgain fromINC | Swing | ||||
In the 2016 election, Samar Mukherjee of Congress defeated his nearest rival, Shehnaz Quadery of Trinamool Congress.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Samar Mukherjee | 96,517 | 51.86 | +3.52 | |
| AITC | Shehnaz Quadery | 53,312 | 28.62 | ||
| BJP | Sanjay Kumar Saha | 25,746 | 13.82 | +11.59 | |
| WPOI | Arafat Ali | 4,290 | 2.30 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,181 | 1.17 | ||
| Independent | Emdadul Haque | 1,572 | 0.84 | ||
| BSP | Md. Kabatulla | 1,531 | 0.82 | ||
| BMP | Sekh Alamin | 1,029 | 0.55 | ||
| Turnout | 186,248 | 77.75 | −2.65 | ||
| INChold | Swing | ||||
In the 2011 election, Samar Mukherjee of Congress defeated his nearest rival Sailen Sarkar of CPI(M).
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Samar Mukherjee | 74,936 | 48.34 | +3.63# | |
| CPI(M) | Sailen Sarkar | 68,075 | 43.92 | −4.45 | |
| Independent | Imadul Hoque | 5,068 | 3.27 | ||
| BJP | Dilip Agorwalla | 3,457 | 2.23 | ||
| Independent | Ashoke Kumar Saha | 1,856 | |||
| Independent | Ataur | 1,622 | |||
| Turnout | 155,014 | 80.40 | |||
| INCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | +8.08# | |||
.# Swing based on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentage in 2011.
In the2006[4] and 2001[5] state assembly elections, Sailen Sarkar ofCPI(M) won the Ratua assembly seat defeating Asit Bose and Samar Mukherjee, both ofCongress, respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Samar Mukherjee of Congress defeated Mozammel Haque of CPI(M) in 1996.[6] Mumtaz Begum of CPI(M) defeated Biswanath Guha and Niren Chandra Sinha, both of Congress, in 1991[7] and 1987[8] respectively. Samar Mukherjee of Congress defeated Mohammad Ali of CPI(M) in 1982.[9] Mohammad Ali of CPI(M) defeated Niren Chandra Sinha of Congress in 1977.[10][11]
Nirendra Chandra Sinha of Congress won in 1972[12] and 1971.[13] Mohammad Ali, Independent, won in 1969.[14] Sourindra Mohan Mishra of Congress won in 1967.[15] Dhanswar Saha of Congress won the Ratua seat in1962.[16] Ratua was a joint seat in1957.[17] Sourindra Mohan Mishra and Dhaneswar Saha, both of Congress, won in 1957. Inindependent India's first election in 1951, Md. Sayeed Mia of Congress won the Ratua seat.[18]
