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{{Use Indian English|date=January 2021}}
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{{Infobox settlement



|name = Bhagabanpur
|official_name =
|other_name =
|native_name = 
|settlement_type = Vidhan Sabha constituency 
|total_type = 
|motto =

|pushpin_map = India West Bengal#India
|map_caption = Location in West Bengal
|coordinates = {{coord|22|06|16|N|87|45|43|E|region:IN-{{IndAbbr|[[West Bengal]]}}|display=inline,title}}

|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{IND}}
|subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Purba Medinipur district|Purba Medinipur]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No.]]
|subdivision_name3 = 214
|subdivision_type4 = Type
|subdivision_name4 = Open
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Kanthi (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kanthi]]
|subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
|subdivision_name6 = 198,846 (2011)

|area_code =
|website =
|footnotes =
}}
'''Bhagabanpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' ({{lang-bn|ভগবানপুর বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র}}) is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Purba Medinipur district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Overview==
As per orders of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]], No. 214 Bhagabanpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Bhagabanpur, Kajlagarh, Kotbarh and Shimulia [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Bhagabanpur I]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]], Arjunnagar, Basudevberia, Baroj, Itaberia, Jukhia, Mugberia and Radhapur gram panchayats of [[Bhagabanpur II]] community development block, and Argoyal and Mathura gram panchayats of [[Patashpur II]] community development block.<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/WestBengal/FINAL%20ORDER%20NOTIFICATION_English.pdf | title = Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006 | access-date= 6 August 2015| work = West Bengal| publisher= Election Commission of India}}</ref>

Bhagabanpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 31 [[Kanthi (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation/>

== Members of Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="2"|Election!!Member!!Party
|-

|2021
|||| [[Rabindranath Maity]]
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|}

==Results==

===2021===
In the 2021 election, Rabindranath Maity of BJP defeated his nearest rival, Ardhendu Maity of Trinamool Congress.

{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2021]]: Bhagabanpur}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Rabindranath Maity
|votes = 121,480
|percentage = 54.56
|change = +50.76
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Ardhendu Maity
|votes = 93,931
|percentage = 42.19
|change = -11.99
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Shiu Maiti
|votes = 5,274
|percentage = 2.37
|change = -36.25
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 1,019
|percentage = 0.46
|change = -0.10
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Ashoktaru Pradhan
|votes = 946
|percentage = 0.42
|change = -0.19
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 222,650
|percentage = 90.64
|change = +2.42
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===
In the 2016 election, Ardhendu Maity of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival, Hemangshu Shekhar Mahapatra of Indian National Congress.

{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2016]]: Bhagabanpur}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Ardhendu Maity
|votes = 111,201
|percentage = 54.18
|change = +3.03
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Hemangshu Shekhar Mahapatra
|votes = 79,258
|percentage = 38.62
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Prasanta Panda
|votes = 7,802
|percentage = 3.80
|change = +1.21
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Priyabrata Dutta
|votes = 1,634
|percentage = 0.80
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Ansar Ali Sk.
|votes = 1,621
|percentage = 0.79
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Ashoktaru Pradhan
|votes = 1,259
|percentage = 0.61
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 1,149
|percentage = 0.56
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Bharat Nirman Party
|candidate = Goutam Pradhan
|votes = 763
|percentage = 0.37
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
|candidate = Thakurdas Mandal
|votes = 540
|percentage = 0.26
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 205,227
|percentage = 88.22
|change = -4.14
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2011===
In the 2011 election, Ardhendu Maity of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Ranajit Manna of SP.

{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Bhagabanpur <ref>{{cite web| url = http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS25214.htm|title = Bhagabanpur |work = Assembly Elections May 2011 Results| publisher = Election Commission of India |access-date = 2011-05-17 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=214|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Bhagabanpur| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 2011-05-01 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ceowestbengal.nic.in/mis_pdf/election_2011/canddtl_4th_phase.pdf |title=West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work=Bhagabanpur |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=2011-05-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912030612/http://www.ceowestbengal.nic.in/mis_pdf/election_2011/canddtl_4th_phase.pdf |archive-date=2011-09-12 }}</ref> }}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Ardhendu Maity
|votes = 93,945
|percentage = 51.15
|change = -0.87#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Samajwadi Party
|candidate = Ranjit Manna
|votes = 84,948
|percentage = 46.25
|change = -0.05
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Sadananda De
|votes = 4,763
|percentage = 2.59
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 183,656
|percentage = 92.36
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing = -0.92#
}}
{{Election box end}}
<small>.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.</small>

===1977-2006===
In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections, Ardhendu Maity of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] won the Bhagabanpur assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Gour Kanti Bal and Prasanta Pradhan, both of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]], in respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Ajit Khanra of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] defeated Prasanta Pradhan of CPI(M) in 1996. Prasanta Pradhan of CPI(M) defeated Asoktaru Panda of Congress in 1991, Haripada Jana of Congress in 1987 and Ramkrishna Sarkar of Congress in 1982. Haripada Jana of [[Janata Party]] defeated Prasanta Pradhan of CPI(M) in 1977.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp208.htm |title = 208 - Bhagabanpur Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 2010-12-07 }}</ref>

===1957-1972===
Amales Jana of Congress won in 1972. Prasanta Kumar Pradhan of CPI(M) won in 1971. [[Abha Maiti]] of Congress won in 1969, 1967 and 1962. In 1957 Bhagabanpur had a dual seat. It was won by Basanta Kumar Panda of [[Praja Socialist Party|PSP]] and Bhikhari Mondal of Congress.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/electionstatistics.asp | title = Statistical Reports of Elections | access-date = 2010-12-01 | work = General Election Results and Statistics | publisher = Election Commission of India | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101005110118/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp | archive-date = 2010-10-05 }}</ref>

==References==
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{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Purba Medinipur district]]

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