Suri Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in

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in the

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Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 285, Suri Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Suri municipality,

Suri I Suri I is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Suri Sadar subdivision of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Overview Birbhum district is physiographically a part of the ancient Rarh region. The ...

CD Block, Rajnagar CD Block, and Chinpai, Gohaliara, Parulia and Sahapur gram panchayats of

Dubrajpur Dubrajpur is a town and a municipality in Suri Sadar subdivision of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History The town of Dubrajpur, was administered by the by Mallabhum kingdom during the medieval Indian period in the 13th ...

CD Block. Suri Assembly constituency is part of No. 42

Birbhum (Lok Sabha constituency) Birbhum Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on the western part of Birbhum district in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 42 Birbhum Lok Sabha constituency are ...

Election results

2021

2016

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) 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 Suri assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Swapan Kanti Ghosh of

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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 Suniti Chattaraj (30 November 1943 – 9 January 2017) was an Indian lawyer and politician belonging to Trinamool Congress. He was a former state minister of West Bengal Government. He was elected as a legislator in West Bengal Legislative Assem ...

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 ...

in 2001.

of Congress defeated Tapan Roy of CPI(M) in 1996. Tapan Roy of CPI(M) defeated

of Congress in 1991 and 1987.

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. Prativa 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 and Mihirlal Chatterjee of PSP won in 1957. Nishapati Majhi and Gopika Bilas Sengupta, both of Congress, won in 1951.

References

{{West Bengal elections Assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of Birbhum district Constituencies established in 1951 1951 establishments in West Bengal