Sitalkuchi Assembly constituency

This article is about the assembly constituency in West Bengal. For 2. its namesake village, see Sitalkuchi, Cooch Behar. For 3.its namesake community development block, see Sitalkuchi.

Sitalkuchi
Constituency No. 5 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Sitalkuchi Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Cooch Behar
LS constituency	Cooch Behar
Established	1962
Total electors	285,260
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Baren Chandra Barman
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2021

Sitalkuchi Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 5 Sitalkuchi Assembly constituency (SC) covers Sitalkuchi community development block and Bairagirhat, Gopalpur, Jorpatiki, Kedarhat, Kursamari, Nayarhat and Shikarpur gram panchayats of Mathabhanga I community development block.^[1]

Sitalkuchi Assembly constituency is part of No. 1 Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

From 1967 to 1977 there was no seat at Sitalkuchi.

Election Year	Name of M.L.A.		Party Affiliation
1962	Bejoy Kumar Roy		Forward Bloc
1977	Sudhir Pramanik		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982
1987
1991
1996
2001
2006	Harish Chandra Barman
2011	Hiten Barman		All India Trinamul Congress
2016
2021	Baren Chandra Barman		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

In the 2021 elections Baren Chandra Barman of Bharatiya Janata Party won defeating his nearest rival Partha Pratim R0y of All India Trinamool Congress

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sitalkuchi^[2]^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Baren Chandra Barman	124,955	50.80	+373.47
	AITC	Partha Pratim Roy	107,140	43.56	+5.40
	CPI(M)	Sudhangshu Pramanik	6,720	2.73	−861.64
	Independent	Hare Krishna Sarkar	2018	0.82
	Kamtapur People's Party (United)	Manick Chandra Barman	976	0.4
	AMB	Kamal Barman	721	0.29
	SUCI(C)	Jagadish Adhikari	693	0.28
Turnout			245,966	85.57
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2021
Cooch Behar district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Bharatiya Janata Party	7	7
Trinamool Congress	2	6
Left Front	0	1

2016

In the 2016 election, Hiten Barman of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Namadipti Adhikary of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Sitalkuchi (SC) constituency^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Hiten Barman	1,01,647	42.71	−1.51
	CPI(M)	Namadipti Adhikari	86,164	36.32	−7.76
	BJP	Baren Chandra Barman	37,347	15.74	+11.13
	Kamtapur People's Party (United)	Premamamda Barman	4,953	2.08
	SUCI(C)	Jagadish Adhikari	2,267	0.95
	BSP	Girindranath Barman	2,235	0.93
	AMB	Subodh Barman	1,838	0.77
	Independent	Fulkumar Barman	1,520	0.63
Majority			15,483	6.39	+6.25
Turnout			2,37,971
	AITC hold		Swing

West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2016
Cooch Behar district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Trinamool Congress	8	4
Left Front	1	3
Indian National Congress	0	1

2011

In the 2011 election, Hiten Barman of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Biswanath Pramanik of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Sitalkuchi (SC) constituency^[5]^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Hiten Barman	84,651	44.22	+4.73
	CPI(M)	Biswanath Pramanik	84,394	44.08	−8.66
	BJP	Bhabendra Nath Barman	8,829	4.61
	JMM	Subal Barman	6,000	3.13
	Independent	Dwijendra Nath Barman	3,547
	BSP	Gautam Barman	2,369
	AMB	Subodh Barman	1,663
Majority			257	0.14
Turnout			191,453	88.45
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+13.39

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections,^[7] Harish Chandra Barman of CPI(M) won the Sitalkuchi seat defeating his nearest rival Lalit Chandra Pramanik of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sudhir Pramanik of CPI(M) defeated Birendra Narayan Barma of Congress in 2001^[8] and 1996,^[9] Ambika Charan Ray of Congress in 1991,^[10] Sabita Roy of Congress in 1987,^[11] and Birendranath Roy of Congress in 1982^[12] and 1977.^[13][14]

Earlier

Bejoy Kumar Roy of Forward Bloc won the Sitalkuchi seat in 1962.^[15]

References

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