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Raniganj Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in the Paschim Bardhaman district, state of West Bengal, India.

Raniganj
Assembly constituency
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Coordinates: 23°37′N 87°08′E
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Paschim Bardhaman
Constituency No.	278
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	40. Asansol
Electorate (year)	196,907 (2011)

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 278, Raniganj assembly constituency covers Wards 33–37,88-93 of Asansol Municipal Corporation(Before 2015 Raniganj municipality) and Andal community development block. Ratibati gram panchayat of Raniganj CD Block is part of Jamuria Assembly constituency. Amrasota, Egra, Ballavpur, Jemari and Tirat gram panchayats of Raniganj CD Block are part of Asansol Dakshin Assembly constituency.[1]

Raniganj assembly segment is part of No. 40 Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Raniganj	Pashupatinath Malia and Banku Behari Mandal	Independent and Indian National Congress[2]
1957	Ondal	Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay and Dhawajadhari Mondal	Indian National Congress[3]
1962	Raniganj	Lakshan Bagdi	Communist Party of India[4]
1967		Haradhan Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5]
1969		Haradhan Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1971		Haradhan Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1972		Haradhan Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
1977		Haradhan Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [9]
1982		Haradhan Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1987		Bansa Gopal Chowdhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
1991		Bansa Gopal Chowdhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
1996		Bansa Gopal Chowdhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
2001		Bansa Gopal Chowdhry	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
2006		Haradhan Jha	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [15][16]
2011		Ali Sohrab	All India Trinamool Congress[17][18]
2016		Runu Dutta	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [19]
2021		Tapas Banerjee	All India Trinamool Congress[20]

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Raniganj [20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Adv. Tapas Banerjee	78,164	42.90	+24.84
	BJP	Dr. Bijan Mukherjee	74,608	40.95	+22.60
	CPI(M)	Hemant Kumar Prabhakar	21,658	11.90	-71.12
	NOTA	None of the above	2,006	1.10
	JD(U)	Raj Kumar	1,612	0.88
Majority			3,556	1.97
Turnout			1,82,257	72.67
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Raniganj [19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Runu Dutta	74,995	42.32	-4.38
	AITC	Nargis Bano	62,610	35.33	-12.50
	BJP	Manish Sharma	32,214	18.17	+14.66
	BSP	Ajit Badyakar	2,599	1.46
	BMP	Mamoni Orang	2,081	1.17
	NOTA	None of the above	2,708	1.52
Majority			12,385	6.99
Turnout			1,77,288	77.31
	CPI(M) gain from AITC		Swing

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Raniganj[21][22][23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Md. Sohrab Ali	73,810	47.83	+14.99#
	CPI(M)	Runu Dutta	72,059	46.70	-25.59
	BJP	Shobhapati Singh	5,423	3.51
	JD(U)	Rajkumar Paswan	3,016	1.95
Majority			1,751	1.13
Turnout			1,54,453	78.35
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+40.58#

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

1977–2006

In the 2006 state assembly election, the Raniganj assembly seat was won by Haradhan Jha of CPI (M). He defeated his nearest rival Jitendra Tiwari of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, 1996, 1991 and 1987, Bansa Gopal Chowdhury of CPI (M) won the seat defeating his nearest rivals Sampa Sarkar, Senapati Mondal, Sankar Dutta and Kalyani Biswas (all of Congress) in the respective years. In 1982 and 1977, Haradhan Roy of CPI (M) defeated Hare Krishna Goswami and Sarojakshya Mukherjee (both of Congress) in the respective years.[24]

1951–1972

Haradhan Roy of CPI(M) won in 1972, 1971, 1969 and 1967. Lakhan Bagdi of CPI won in 1962. In 1957, there was a seat at Ondal. It was won by Dhawadhari Mondal and Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay, both of Congress. In independent India's first election in 1951, Banku Behari Mandal of Congress won the Raniganj seat.[25]

References

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