Bankura Assembly Constituency
Bankura is constituency No. 252 of West Bengal legislative assembly. It is situated in Bankura district and comes under the Bankura Lok Sabha constituency. It is an unreserved constituency.According to data with the Election Commission of India, Bankura has 2,15,037 registered voters comprising 1,11,668 male and 1,03,369 female registered voters.
In the 2011 Assembly elections, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) won this seat by 29,090 votes. Kashinath Mishra, the winning TMC candidate, got 92,835 votes. The runner-up was Pratip Mukherjee of CPI(M) who got 63,745 votes. The voter turnout was 80.14 %.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Bankura Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Bankura assembly elections conducted so far.| Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Vote | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | By Polls | Bankura | GEN | M. Misra | M | AITC | 72954 | N. J. Dasgupta | M | CPM | 57815 |
| 2011 | 252 | Bankura | GEN | Kashinath Mishra | M | AITC | 92835 | Pratip Mukherjee | M | CPM | 63745 |
| 2006 | 251 | Bankura | GEN | Partha De | M | CPI(M) | 68426 | Kashinath Mishra | M | AITC | 49926 |
| 2001 | 251 | Bankura | GEN | Kashinath Misra | M | AITC | 58809 | Partha De | M | CPM | 56496 |
| 1996 | 251 | Bankura | GEN | Partha De | M | CPM | 64325 | Asis Chakrabartty | M | INC | 49449 |
| 1991 | 251 | Bankura | GEN | Partha De | M | CPM | 56101 | Kashi Nath Misra | M | INC | 47327 |
| 1987 | 251 | Bankura | GEN | Partha De | M | CPM | 50027 | Kashinath Misra | M | INC | 48418 |
| 1982 | 251 | Bankura | GEN | Kashinath Mishra | M | INC | 42859 | Partha De | M | CPM | 40296 |
| 1977 | 251 | Bankura | GEN | Partha De | M | CPM | 20682 | Anandi Kundu | M | JNP | 9925 |
| 1972 | 238 | Bankura | GEN | Kashinath Misra | M | INC | 28082 | Sumitra Chatterjee | M | CPM | 16315 |
| 1971 | 238 | Bankura | GEN | Kashi Nath Misra | M | INC | 17423 | Sumitra Chatterjee | M | CPM | 11927 |
| 1969 | 238 | Bankura | GEN | Bireswar Ghosh | M | CPI | 29711 | Satyanarayan Mitra | M | INC | 14102 |
| 1967 | 238 | Bankura | GEN | S . Mitra | M | INC | 14105 | B . Ghosh | M | CPI | 14090 |
| 1962 | 219 | Bankura | GEN | Aboni Bhattacharyya | M | CPI | 12069 | Anath Bandhu Roy | M | INC | 11492 |
| 1957 | 72 | Bankura | (SC) | Sihsuram Mandal (Sc) | M | INC | 26344 | Rakhahari Chattopadhyay | M | HMS | 17280 |
| 1957 | 72 | Bankura | (SC) | Anath Bandhu Roy | M | INC | 21778 | Bijoy Kumar Mandal (Sc) | M | HMS | 16846 |
| 1951 | 54 | Bankura | (SC) | Rakhahari Chatterjee | M | HMS | 10792 | Uday Bhanu Ghose | M | CPI | 6805 |
Last Updated on May 13, 2016
