Suri 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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. The Rajnagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Rajnagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Rajnagar was an assembly constituency in Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The seat was reserved for scheduled castes....

 ceases to exist from 2011.

Extent

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 285 Suri(Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Suri municipality, Suri I community development block

Community Development Block in India

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, Rajnagar

Rajnagar, Birbhum

Rajnagar is a town in Suri Sadar subdivision of Birbhum District in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was formerly the capital of Royal Kingdoms in the area. With the fading away of the kingdoms, the town lost much of its importance....

 community development block, and Chinpai, Gohaliara, Parulia and Sahapur gram panchayat

Gram panchayat

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s of Dubrajpur

Dubrajpur

Dubrajpur is a town and a municipality in Suri Sadar subdivision of Birbhum District in the Indian state of West Bengal.-Geography:Dubrajpur is located at . It has an average elevation of 77 metres .-Demographics:...

 community development block.

Suri (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 election , Swapan Kanti Ghosh of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Abdul Ghaffar of CPI(M).
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections Tapan Roy of CPI(M)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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 won the Suri assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Swapan Kanti Ghosh of Congress

Indian National Congress

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. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Braja Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Suniti Chattaraj of Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress

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 in 2001. Suniti Chattaraj of Congress defeated Tapan Roy of CPI(M) in 1996. Tapan Roy of CPI(M) defeated Suniti Chattaraj of Congress in 1991 and 1987. Suniti Chattaraj of Congress defeated Keshab Das of CPI(M) in 1982 and Arun Kumar Chowdhury in 1977.

1951–1972

Suniti Chattaraj of Congress won in 1972. Protiva Mukherjee of SUC in 1971 and 1969. Baidyanath Bandopadhyay of Congress won in 1967 and 1962. In 1957 and 1951 Suri was a joint seat with one seat being reserved for scheduled tribes. Turku Hansda of CPI

Communist Party of India

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 and Mihirlal Chatterjee of PSP

Praja Socialist Party

The Praja Socialist Party was an Indian political party in existence from 1952 to 1972. It was founded when the Socialist Party, led by Jayprakash Narayan, Acharya Narendra Deva and Basawon Singh , merged with the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party led by J.B. Kripalani...

won in 1957. Nishapati Majhi and Gopika Bilas Sengupta, both of Congress, won in 1951.