Barjora Assembly Constituency
Barjora is constituency No. 253 of West Bengal legislative assembly. It is situated in Bankura district and comes under the Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency.
According to data with the Election Commission of India, Barjora has 2,03,655 registered voters. It comprises 1,06,238 male and 97,417 female registered voters.
In the 2011 Assembly elections, the Trinamool Congress won this seat by a margin of 8,491 votes. Asutosh Mukherjee, the winning TMC candidate, got 84,457 votes. His nearest contender was Susmita Biswas of CPI(M) who got 75,966 votes. The voter turnout was 86.97%.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Barjora Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Barjora assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Vote | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Vote |
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| 2011 | 253 | Barjora | GEN | Asutosh Mukherjee | M | AITC | 84457 | Susmita Biswas | F | CPM | 75966 |
| 2006 | 250 | Barjora | GEN | Susmita Biswas | F | CPI(M) | 73859 | Daripa Shampa | F | AITC | 53383 |
| 2001 | 250 | Barjora | GEN | Susmita Biswas | F | CPM | 64647 | Sudhanghshu Sekhar Tewari | M | AITC | 54826 |
| 1996 | 250 | Barjora | GEN | Susmita Biswas | F | CPM | 66842 | Tapasi Banerjee | F | INC | 53121 |
| 1991 | 250 | Barjora | GEN | Jayasri Mitra | F | CPM | 61501 | Zabyasachi Roy | M | INC | 37882 |
| 1987 | 250 | Barjora | GEN | Jayasree Mitra | F | CPM | 56273 | Sudhangsu Sekhar Tewari | M | INC | 44574 |
| 1982 | 250 | Barjora | GEN | Bhattcharya Lal Behari | M | CPM | 48001 | Sudhangshu Sekhar Tewari | M | INC | 38125 |
| 1977 | 250 | Barjora | GEN | Aswini Kumar Raj | M | CPM | 37104 | Sudhangshu Sekhar Tewari | M | INC | 11982 |
| 1972 | 237 | Barjora | GEN | Sudhangshu Sekhar Tewary | M | INC | 27196 | Aswani Kumar Rai | M | CPM | 21130 |
| 1971 | 237 | Barjora | GEN | Aswini Kumar Rai | M | CPM | 24374 | Sudhangshu Sakhar Tewari | M | BAC | 13399 |
| 1969 | 237 | Barjora | GEN | Aswini Kumar Raj | M | CPM | 32978 | A.P. Chattopadhyay | M | INC | 17429 |
| 1967 | 237 | Barjora | GEN | A . Chatterjee | M | INC | 23134 | A . K . Raj | M | CPM | 21431 |
| 1962 | 217 | Barjora | GEN | Pramatha Ghosh | M | CPI | 18369 | Bhabataran Chakrabarty | M | INC | 12256 |
| 1951 | 52 | Barjora | GEN | Prafulla Chandra Roy | M | INC | 9094 | Jagadish Palit | M | CPI | 7296 |
Last Updated on May 27, 2020