Burwan is an assembly constituency in

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in the

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. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the

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, No. 67 Burwan Assembly constituency (SC) covers Biprasekhar, Burwan I, Burwan II, Kharjuna, Kuli, Kurunnorun, Panchthupi, Sabaldaha, Sabalpur, Sahora and Sundarpur gram panchayats of

Burwan Burwan (also spelled Barwan) is a village, with a police station, in the Burwan CD block in the Kandi subdivision of Murshidabad district in the state of West Bengal, India. It touches with Birbhum District and Near labpur and Miriti Village, ...

community development block In India, a community development block (CD block) or simply Block is a sub-division of District, administratively earmarked for planning and development. In tribal areas, similar sub-divisions are called tribal development blocks (TD blocks). T ...

and Gadda, Jajan and Gundiria gram panchayats of

Bharatpur I Bharatpur I is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Kandi subdivision of Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Bharatpur is located at Bharatpur I CD block is bounded by Kandi C ...

community development block. Burwan Assembly constituency is part of No. 10

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Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

2021

2016

2011

In the 2011 election, Protima Rajak of Congress defeated her nearest rival Binoy Sarkar of RSP. .# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. Considering the Congress vote percentage alone in 2006, the swing was +5.37%.

1977–2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections Biswanath Banerjee of RSP won the Barwan assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Arit Majumdar of

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. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Amalendralal Roy of RSP defeated Tapas Dasgupta of Congress in 2001. Debabrata Banerjee of RSP defeated Ali Hossain Mondal of Congress in 1996, and Sudip Mohan Ghosh Moulik of Congress in 1991. Amalendra Roy of RSP defeated Gadadar Ghosh of Congress in 1987, Ali Hossain Mondal of Congress in 1982, and Sunil Mohan Ghosh Moulik of Congress in 1977.

1951–1972

Sunil Mohan Ghosh Moulik of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Amalendra Lal Roy of RSP won in 1969 and 1967. The Burwan seat was not there in 1962 and 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951 Burwan Khargram was a joint seat Satyendra Chandra Ghosh Moulik and Sudhir Mondal, both of Congress, jointly won the Burwan Khargram seat.

References

{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal Assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of Murshidabad district Constituencies established in 1951 1951 establishments in West Bengal