Jalpaiguri Assembly constituency

Jalpaiguri is an assembly constituency in Jalpaiguri district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 17 Jalpaiguri Assembly constituency (SC) covers Jalpaiguri municipality, and Arabinda, Bahadur, Boalmari Nandanpur, Garalbari, Kharia, Kharija Berubari I, Kharija Berubari II, Mondalghat, Nagar Berubari and South Berubari gram panchayats of Jalpaiguri community development block,

Jalpaiguri Assembly constituency is part of No. 3 Jalpaiguri (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election
Year
Name of M.L.A. Party Affiliation
1951 Khagendra Nath Dasgupta Indian National Congress
1957
1962
1967
1969 Naresh Chandra Chakraborty Communist Party of India
1971 Anupam Sen Indian National Congress
1972
1977 Nirmal Kumar Bose All India Forward Bloc
1982
1987
1991 Anupam Sen Indian National Congress
1996
2001 Gobinda Roy All India Forward Bloc
2006 Debaprasad Roy Indian National Congress
2011 Sukhbilas Barma
2016

Election results

2021 Election

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Jalpaiguri (SC) constituency
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Pradip Kumar Barma
INC Sukhbilas Barma
BJP Soujit Singha
Turnout

2016 Election

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Jalpaiguri (SC) constituency
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Sukh Bilas Barma 94553
AITC Dharitri Mohan Roy 89396
BJP Tapan Roy 16029
Turnout

2011

In the 2011 elections, Sukh Bilas Barma of Congress defeated his nearest rival Gobinda Chandra Roy of AIFB.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Jalpaiguri (SC) constituency[2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Sukh Bilas Barma 86,273 48.64 -2.37#
AIFB Gobinda Chandra Roy 75,222 42.41 -1.32
BJP Sisir Kanti Mondal 6,108 3.44
BSP Jiban Krishna Majumder 3,213
Independent Laxmi Kanta Roy 2,773
SUCI(C) Haribhakta Sardar 1,930
AMB Mahadeb Chandra Das 1,844
Turnout 177,363 85.43
INC hold Swing -1.05#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Deba Prasad Roy of Congress won the Jalpaiguri assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Gobinda Roy of Forward Bloc. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, Gobinda Roy of Forward Bloc defeated Anupam Sen representing Trinamool Congress. Anupam Sen representing Congress defeated of Sudhansu Majumdar of Forward Bloc in 1996 and Nirmal Kumar Bose of Forward Bloc in 1991, Nirmal Kumar Bose of Forward Bloc defeated Anupam Sen of Congress in 1987 and 1982, and Devendra Mohan Sarkar of Janata Party in 1977.

1951–1972

Anupam Sen of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Naresh Chandra Chakraborty of CPI won in 1969. Khagendra Nath Dasgupta of Congress won in 1967 and 1962. Prior to that Jalpaiguri was a joint seat. Sarojendra Deb Raikut and Khagendra Nath Dasgupta, both of Congress, won in 1957. In independent India’s first election in 1951, Ashrumati Devi and Khagendra Nath Dasgupta, both of Congress, won.