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Barabani Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 283 Barabani assembly constituency covers Barabani and Salanpur community development blocks.[1]

Barabani assembly segment is part of No. 40 Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Member Party
1962 Haridas Chakravarty Template:Full party name with color
1967 Mihir Upadhyaya Template:Full party name with color
1969 Sunil Basu Roy Template:Full party name with color
1971
1972 Sukumar Bandopadhyaya Template:Full party name with color
1977 Sunil Basu Roy Template:Full party name with color
1982 Ajit Chakrabarty
1987 Ajit Kumar Chakrabarty
1989^ Manik Upadhyay Template:Full party name with color
1991 S. R. Das Template:Full party name with color
1996 Manik Upadhyay Template:Full party name with color
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2006 Dilip Sarkar Template:Full party name with color
2011 Bidhan Upadhyay Template:Full party name with color
2016
2021
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Election results

2026

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2021

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2016

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2011

In the 2011 election, Bidhan Upadhyay of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Abhas Raychaudhuri of CPI(M).

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1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Dilip Sarkar of CPI (M) won the Barabani assembly seat defeating Manik Upadhyay of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Manik Upadhyay representing Trinamool Congress in 2001 and Congress in 1996, won the seat twice defeating Rudranath Mukherjee and Paresh Maji, both of CPI (M), respectively. In 1991, S.R.Das of CPI (M) defeated Manik Upadhyay of Congress. In 1989, Manik Upadhyay of Congress won the Barabani seat in a bye election. In 1987 and 1982, Ajit Chakraborty of CPI (M) defeated Manik Upadhyay and Dhiraj Sain, both of Congress, respectively. In 1977, Sunil Basu Roy of CPI (M) defeated Sukumar Bandopadhyay of Congress.[2]

1962-1972

Prior to that those who won the Barabani seat were Sukumar Banerjee of Congress in 1972, Sunil Basu Roy of CPI (M) in 1971 and 1969, Mihir Upadhyay of Congress in 1967, and Haridas Chakraborty of CPI in 1962.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Delimitation Commission Order No. 18. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
  2. 258 - Barabani Assembly Constituency. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2009-08-29.

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