Ausgram Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.
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Coordinates: 23°32′N 87°40′E | |
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State | West Bengal |
District | Purba Bardhaman |
Constituency No. | 273 |
Type | Reserved for SC. |
Lok Sabha constituency | 41. Bolpur (SC) |
Electorate (year) | 195,953 (2011) |
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 273 Ausgram (SC) assembly seat covers Ausgram I community development block, Ausgram II CD Block, and Guskara municipality.[1]
Ausgram assembly segment is part of No. 41 Bolpur (Lok Sabha constituency)[1]
The West Bengal political scenario has changed dramatically over the years. In the early years after independence it was a scene of fluctuating fortunes between the Congress and the Left wing parties, till the latter captured power in the late seventies. The United News of India in a candid analysis says, “The green surge swept Bengal to demolish the red bastion in 2011 Assembly elections… Moreover, as the Left still remained cornered in state politics, their neutralised voters are increasingly migrating to the BJP for a viable alternative.”[2]
Election Year | Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation |
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1951 | Ausgram | Kanai Lal Das and Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay | Indian National Congress[3] |
1957 | Kanai Lal Das | Indian National Congress[4] | |
1962 | Manoranjan Bakshi | Independent [5] | |
1967 | Krishna Chandra Halder | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6] | |
1969 | Krishna Chandra Halder | Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7] | |
1971 | Sridhar Malik | Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8] | |
1972 | Sridhar Malik | Communist Party of India (Marxist) [9] | |
1977 | Sreedhar Malik | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10] | |
1982 | Sreedhar Malik | Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11] | |
1987 | Sreedhar Malik | Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12] | |
1991 | Sreedhar Malik | Communist Part of India (Marxist) [13] | |
1996 | Kartick Chandra Bag | Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14] | |
2001 | Kartick Chandra Bag | Communist Party of India (Marxist) [15] | |
2006 | Kartick Chandra Bag | Communist Party of India (Marxist) [16][17] | |
2011 | Basudeb Mete | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[18] | |
2016 | Abhedananda Thander | All India Trinamool Congress[19][20] | |
2021 | All India Trinamool Congress [21][22] |
In the 2021 election, Abhedananda Thander of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kalita Maji of BJP.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Abhedananda Thander | 100,392 | 46.25 | ![]() | |
BJP | Kalita Maji | 88,577 | 40.80 | ![]() | |
CPI(M) | Chanchal Kumar Majhi | 20,399 | 9.40 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 4,039 | 1.86 | ||
SUCI(C) | Manasa Mete | 1,972 | 0.91 | ||
BSP | Sridam Goldar | 1,701 | 0.78 | ||
Turnout | 217,080 | ||||
AITC hold | Swing | ||||
In the 2016 election, Abhedananda Thander of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Basudeb Mete of CPI (M).
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Abhedananda Thander | 90,450 | 45.94 | new | |
CPI(M) | Basudeb Mete | 84,198 | 42.76 | ![]() | |
BJP | Sanatan Maji | 14,686 | 7.46 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 3,817 | 1.94 | ||
Independent | Kalpana Ankure | 2,263 | 1.15 | ||
SUCI(C) | Manasa Mete | 1,485 | 0.75 | ||
Turnout | 196,899 | 87.52 | |||
AITC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | ||||
In the 2011 election, Basudeb Mete of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Chanchal Kumar Mondol of Congress.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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CPI(M) | Basudeb Mete | 90,863 | 52.21 | ![]() | |
INC | Chanchal Kumar Mondal | 67,767 | 38.94 | ![]() | |
BJP | Shanti Karmakar | 7,663 | 4.40 | ||
Independent | Nihar Kumar Hazra | 3,989 | |||
SUCI(C) | Manasa Mate | 2,321 | |||
JDP | Bireswar Maji | 1,445 | |||
Turnout | 174,048 | 88.82 | |||
CPI(M) hold | Swing | -24.49# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages in 2006 taken together.
Sridhar Malik of CPI(M) won the seat in 1972 and 1971. Krishna Chandra Halder of CPI(M) won it 1969 and 1967. In 1962, it was won by Kanai Lal Das of Congress. In 1952, the first year when this constituency was formed, and 1957, it had two seats, one general and the other reserved for SC. From 1962, it became a constituency reserved for SC. In 1951, the winners were Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay and Kanai Lal Das both of Congress.[26]
Kartick Chandra Bag of CPI(M) won the Ausgram (SC) assembly seat in 2006, 2001 and 1996, defeating his nearest rivals Chhaya Chowdhuri of Trinamool Congress, Sukumar Mondal of Trinamool Congress and Sukumar Saha of Congress, in the respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sreedhar Malik of CPI(M) won the seat in 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977, defeating his nearest rivals, Chhaya Rani Chowdhury of Congress, Biswambhar Mondal of Congress, Chanchal Kumar Modal of Congress and Madan Lohar of Janata Party, in the respective years.[27]
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