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{{Use Indian English|date=January 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Rampurhat
| type= SLA
| map_image = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=y|frame-width=300|frame-height=300|frame-align=center|type=shape|from=Vidhan Sabha constituencies/West Bengal/Rampurhat.map}}
| map_caption = Interactive Map Outlining Rampurhat Assembly Constituency
| map_alt =
| mla = [[Dhruba Saha]]
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| alliance =
| latest_election_year = [[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| district = [[Birbhum district|Birbhum]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Birbhum (Lok Sabha constituency)|Birbhum]]
| constituency_no = 291
| established = 1951
| electors = 201,049
| reservation = None
| abolished =
}}

'''Rampurhat Assembly constituency''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Birbhum district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Overview==
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 291, Rampurhat Assembly constituency is composed of the following: [[Rampurhat]] municipality, [[Rampurhat I]] [[Community Development Block in India|CD Block]] and Bharkata, [[Gonpur]], Hinglow, Kapista, Rampur and Sekedda [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Mohammad Bazar (community development block)|Mohammad Bazar]] CD Block.<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web|url=http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf |title=Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 |access-date=2010-09-26 |publisher=Government of West Bengal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918130255/http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf |archive-date=2010-09-18 }}</ref>

Rampurhat Assembly constituency is part of No. 42 [[Birbhum (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name =delimitation/>
== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Name
! colspan=2|Party
|-
|rowspan="2"|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]
|Panchanan Let
|{{Full party name with color|All India Forward Bloc|rowspan=2}}
|-
|Srikumar Bandopadhyay
|-
|rowspan="2"|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
|Gobardhan Das
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India}}
|-
|Durgapada Das
|{{Full party name with color|Independent politician}}
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|Niharika Majumdar
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|rowspan="2"|Sasanka Sekhar Mongal
|{{Full party name with color|All India Forward Bloc|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
|-
|[[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1971]]
|Braja Mohan Mukherjee
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|dab=yes}}
|-
|[[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1972]]
|Ananda Gopal Roy
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|Tapas Kumar Mukhopadhyay
|{{Full party name with color|Janata Party}}
|-
|[[1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|rowspan="3"|Sashanka Mondal
|{{Full party name with color|All India Forward Bloc|rowspan=4}}
|-
|[[1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
|-
|[[1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|-
|[[1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|[[Mahammad Hannan]]
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
|rowspan="5"|[[Asish Banerjee]]
|{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress|rowspan=5}}
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|-
|[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
| Dhruba Saha
|{{Full party name with color |Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|}

==Election results==

===2026===
{{Election box begin|title=[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Rampurhat}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link||candidate=Dhruba Saha |party=Bharatiya Janata Party|votes= {{formatnum:111920}} |percentage=47.89 |change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Asish Banerjee |party=Trinamool Congress|votes= {{formatnum:87687}} |percentage=37.72 |change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Sanjib Mallick|party=Left Front (West Bengal)|votes= {{formatnum:22994}}|percentage=9.84 |change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Vivekananda Shaw|party=Indian National Congress |votes= {{formatnum:1830}} |percentage=0.78 |change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=[[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]|party=None of the above (India)|votes= {{formatnum:3163}} |percentage=1.35|change=}}
{{Election box majority||votes= {{formatnum:24233}} |percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box turnout||votes={{formatnum:233723}} |percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser = Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2021===
{{Election box begin |title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Rampurhat}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Asish Banerjee
|votes = 103,276
|percentage = 48.30
|change = {{increase}}3.70
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Subhasis Choudhury
|votes = 94,804
|percentage = 44.30
|change = {{increase}}31.00
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Sanjib Barman
|votes = 11,707
|percentage = 5.50
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|votes=|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===
{{Election box begin
|title=[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Rampurhat}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Asish Banerjee
|votes = 85,435
|percentage = 44.60
|change = {{decrease}}1.20
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Syed Siraj Jimmi
|votes = 64,236
|percentage = 33.50
|change = {{increase}}33.50
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Dudh Kumar Mondal
|votes = 25,480
|percentage = 13.30
|change = {{increase}}2.43
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|candidate = [[Mahammad Hannan]]
|votes = 3,613
|percentage = 1.90
|change = {{decrease}}37.65
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes =
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes =
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2011===
In the 2011 elections, Asish Banerjee of [[Trinamool Congress]] defeated his nearest rival Rebati Bhattacharya of AIFB.

{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Rampurhat<ref>{{cite web |url = http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS25291.htm |title = Rampurhat |work = Assembly Elections May 2011 Results |publisher = Election Commission of India |access-date = 2011-05-28 |archive-date = 16 May 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110516121334/http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS25291.htm |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=291| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120529222716/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=291| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 29 May 2012|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Rampurhat| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 2011-04-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.ceowestbengal.nic.in/mis_pdf/election_2011/canddtl_2nd_phase.pdf |title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Rampurhat |publisher = Election Commission of India |access-date = 2011-04-20 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110912030419/http://www.ceowestbengal.nic.in/mis_pdf/election_2011/canddtl_2nd_phase.pdf |archive-date = 2011-09-12 }}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Asish Banerjee]]
|votes = 75,066
|percentage = 45.8
|change = {{decrease}}7.06#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|candidate = Rebati Bhattacharya
|votes = 64,828
|percentage = 39.55
|change = {{decrease}}2.04
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Subhasis Choudhury
|votes = 17,815
|percentage = 10.87
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Mahesh Kisku
|votes = 3,769
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
|candidate = Prodyot Mukherjee
|votes = 242
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 163,905
|percentage = 86.31
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing = -5.56#
}}
{{Election box end}}
<small>.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. For Trinamool Congress alone the swing was -0.02%.</small>

===1977–2006===
In 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections, Asish Banerjee of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] won the Rampurhat assembly constituency defeating Nirad Baran Mandal of [[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]] in 2006, and [[Mahammad Hannan]] of Forward Bloc in 2001. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. [[Mahammad Hannan]] of Forward Block defeated Satyendra Nath Das of [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] in 1996. Sashanka Mondal of Forward Bloc defeated Satyendra Nath Das of BJP in 1991, Asish Banerjee of Congress in 1987, Ananda Gopal Roy of Congress in 1982 and Tapas Kumar Mukhopadhyay of [[Janata Party]] in 1977.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp291.htm | title = 291 – Rampurhat Assembly Constituency | work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India| access-date = 2010-10-01 }}</ref>

===1951–1972===
Ananda Gopal Roy of Congress won in 1972. Braja Mohan Mukherjee of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] won in 1971. Sasanka Sekhar Mongal of Forward Bloc won in 1969 and 1967. Niharika Majumdar of Congress won in 1962. In 1957 and 1951 Rampurhat was a joint seat. Gobardhan Das of [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] and Durgapada Das, Independent, won in 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951 Panchanan Let and Srikumar Bandopadhyay, both of Forward Block, won.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/electionstatistics.asp | title = Statistical Reports of Assembly Elections | access-date = 2010-10-01 | 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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{{Birbhum topics}}

{{Assembly constituencies of West Bengal}}
{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Birbhum district]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1951]]
[[Category:1951 establishments in West Bengal]]

Rampurhat Assembly constituency - Revision history

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