Kumargram (West Bengal) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Kumargram Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency

Kumargram is a legislative assembly segment located in the Alipurduars district of West Bengal. It belongs to the Alipurduars (ST) Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituency of the state. Kumargram is represented in the state legislative assembly by RSP's Manoj Kumar Oraon as he won 65,634 votes in the 2011 assembly elections. AITMC's Joachim Baxla was the runner-up with 62,967 votes. There are 1,73,635 people in the constituency who enjoy the right to votes as per the universal adult franchise, out of whom 91,196 are men and 82,435 are women. According to the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India - 2008, the Kumargram assembly constituency covers areas of Turturi, Bhatibari, Tatpara-I, Kohinoor, Samuktala and Mahakalguri Parokata gram panchayats of Alipurduar community development block; and Kumargram community development block. Only the candidates belonging to Scheduled Tribes (STs) can contest the Kumargram assembly constituency.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Kumargram Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Kumargram assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	10	Kumargram	(ST)	Manoj Kumar Oraon	M	RSP	65634	Joachim Baxla	M	AITMC	62967
2011	10	Kumargram	(ST)	Dasrath Tirkey	M	RSP	71545	Joachim Baxla	M	AITC	58964
2006	10	Kumargram	(ST)	Dasrath Tirkey	M	RSP	69540	Swapan Kujur	M	AITC	32372
2001	10	Kumargram	(ST)	Dasrath Tirkey	M	RSP	60966	Paresh Chandra Das	M	AITC	27782
1996	10	Kumargram	(ST)	Salib Toppo	M	RSP	59032	Krishna Chik Baraik	F	INC	41580
1991	10	Kumargram	(ST)	Salib Topo	M	RSP	52282	Dudsai Topp	M	INC	35021
1988	By Polls	Kumargram	(ST)	S.Toppo	M	RSP	49595	K.N.Thakur	M	INC	27297
1987	10	Kumargram	(ST)	Subodh Barwa	M	RSP	48081	Khagendra Nath Thakur	M	INC	34514
1982	10	Kumargram	(ST)	Subodh Uraon	M	RSP	40531	Dutsai Toppo	M	INC	31493
1977	10	Kumargram	(ST)	John Arther Baxla	M	RSP	22882	Konda Bhagat	M	INC	15543
1972	9	Kumargram	GEN	Debabrata Chatterjee	M	INC	25515	Nitai Chandra Das	M	CPM	12061
1971	9	Kumargram	GEN	Pijush Kanti Mukherjee	M	INC	16619	Netai Chandra Das	M	CPM	7984
1969	9	Kumargram	GEN	Pijish Kanti Mukherjee	M	INC	19197	Ranjit Das Gupta	M	CPM	13760
1967	9	Kumargram	GEN	P.K.Mukherjee	M	INC	16093	R.Das Gupta	M	CPM	9007

Last Updated on June 06, 2020

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