Rampurhat is an assembly

Vidhan Sabha

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 constituency in Birbhum district

Birbhum district

Birbhum district is an administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the northernmost district of Burdwan division—one of the three administrative divisions of West Bengal. The district headquarters is located at Suri...

 in the India

India

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n state

States and territories of India

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 of West Bengal

West Bengal

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Extent

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 291 Rampurhat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Rampurhat

Rampurhat

Rampurhat is a city and a municipality in Birbhum District in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a small and peaceful town near the West Bengal / Jharkhand border...

 munuicipality, Rampurhat I

Rampurhat I (community development block)

Rampurhat I is an administrative division in Rampurhat subdivision of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Rampurhat and Margram police stations serve this block...

 community development block

Community Development Block in India

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 and Bharkata, Gonpur, Hinglow, Kapista, Rampur and Sekedda gram panchayat

Gram panchayat

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s of Mohammad Bazar community development block.

Rampurhat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 42 Birbhum (Lok Sabha constituency)

Birbhum (Lok Sabha constituency)

Birbhum is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on the western part of Birbhum district in West Bengal...

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2011

In the 2011 elections , Ashish Banerjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Rebati Bhattacharya of AIFB.

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. For Trinamool Congress alone the swing was -0.02%.

1977–2006

In 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections, Asish Banerjee of Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress

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 won the Rampurhat assembly constituency defeating Nirad Baran Mandal of Forward Bloc

All India Forward Bloc

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 in 2006, and Md. Hannan of Forward Bloc in 2001. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Md. Hannan of Forward Block defeated Satyendra Nath Das of BJP

Bharatiya Janata Party

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 in 1996. Sashanka Mondal of Forward Bloc defeated Satyendra Nath Das of BJP in 1991, Ananda Gopal Roy of Congress in 1982 and Tapas Kumar Mukhopadhyay of Janata Party

Janata Party

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 in 1977.

1951–1972

Ananda Gopal Roy of Congress won in 1972. Braja Mohan Mukherjee of CPI(M)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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 won in 1971. Sasanka Sekhar Mongal of Forward Bloc won in 1969 and 1967. Niharika Majumdar of Congress won in 1962. In 1957 and 1951 Rampurhat was a joint seat. Gobardhan Das of CPI

Communist Party of India

The Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...

and Durgapada Das, Independent, won in 1957. In independent India’s first election in 1951 Panchanan Let and Srikumar Bandopadhyay, both of Forward Block, won.