Para is an assembly constituency in

Purulia district Purulia district () is one of the twenty-three districts of West Bengal state in Eastern India. Purulia is the administrative headquarters of the district. Some of the other important towns of Purulia district are Raghunathpur- Adra, Manbazar ...

in the

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. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 245 Para Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following:

Para Para, or PARA, may refer to: Businesses, professions, and organizations * Paramount Global, traded as PARA on the Nasdaq stock exchange * Para Group, the former name of CT Corp * Para Rubber, now Skellerup, a New Zealand manufacturer * Para ...

and

Raghunathpur II Raghunathpur II is a Community development blocks in India, community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division in the Raghunathpur subdivision of the Purulia district in the Indian States and territories of India, state ...

community development blocks. Para Assembly constituency is part of No. 35

Purulia (Lok Sabha constituency) Purulia Lok Sabha constituency is one of the present 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal state in eastern India. India has total 543 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies. All the seven assembly segments of No. 35 Purulia Lok Sabha ...

. It was earlier part of

Bankura (Lok Sabha constituency) Bankura Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. While six assembly segments of No. 36 Bankura Lok Sabha constituency are in Bankura district, one assembly segment is in Purulia district. Assembly segmen ...

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

2021

2016

2011

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. Intervening by-election ignored for comparisons.

1977-2009

Subsequent to the resignation of the sitting MLA, Bilasibala Sahis, after her election to the Zilla Parishad (district council), Minu Bauri of CPI(M) won the Para seat in the 2009 by-elections defeating Charan Bauri of JMM. In

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, 2001, 1996 and 1991 Bilasibala Sahis of

CPI(M) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electoral seats, and one of the six national parties of India. ...

won the Para assembly seat defeating her nearest rivals Sima Bauri of

Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (; AITC), simply known as Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the Federated state, state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a Lis ...

, Mira Bauri of Trinamool Congress, Gobordhan Bagdi of JMM and Durgadas Bauri of

Congress A congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties, or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of ...

respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Gobinda Bauri of CPI(M) defeated Kashinath Bauri of Congress in 1987, and Sarat Das of Congress in 1982 and 1977.

1962-1972

Sarat Das of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Tinkori Bouri of

Bangla Congress The Bangla Congress was a regional political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was formed through a split in the Indian National Congress in 1966 and later co-governed with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) in two Unite ...

won in 1969. S. Bauri of Bangla Congress won in 1967. Nepal Bauri of Congress won in

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References

{{West Bengal elections Assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of Purulia district Constituencies established in 1962 1962 establishments in West Bengal