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|name = Sonamukhi 
|official_name =
|other_name =
|native_name = 
|settlement_type = Vidhan Sabha constituency 
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|pushpin_map = India West Bengal#India
|map_caption = Location in West Bengal
|coordinates = {{coord|23|18|00|N|87|25|00|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 = [[Bankura district|Bankura]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No.]]
|subdivision_name3 = 258
|subdivision_type4 = Type
|subdivision_name4 = Reserved for [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|SC]]
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Bishnupur (Lok Sabha constituency)|37. Bishnupur]]
|subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
|subdivision_name6 = 180,316 (2011)

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'''Sonamukhi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Bankura district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]]. It is reserved for [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|scheduled castes]].

==Overview==
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 258 Sonamukhi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) is composed of the following: [[Sonamukhi]] municipality; [[Sonamukhi (Community development block)|Sonamukhi]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]]; and Belut Rasulpur, Beersingha, Hamirpur, Narayanpur and Patrasayar [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Patrasayer (Community development block)|Patrasayer]] community development block.<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web | url = http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf | title = Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006 | access-date = 2011-04-03 | publisher = Government of West Bengal | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110813092204/http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf | archive-date = 13 August 2011 }}</ref>

Sonamukhi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 37 [[Bishnupur (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation/>
==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| - class="wikitable"
! Year
! Members<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sonamukhi Election 2021: Assembly Elections News, Sonamukhi Constituency, Vidhan Sabha Seat|url=https://www.news18.com/assembly-elections-2021/west-bengal/sonamukhi-election-result-s25a258/|access-date=2021-05-04|website=News18}}</ref>
! Party
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|[[Dipali Saha]]
|[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|[[Ajit Ray]]
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|[[Dibakar Gharami]]
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
|}

==Election results==
===2016===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2016]]: Sonamukhi <ref name="Sonamukhi">{{cite web| url = http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS25258.htm|title = Sonamukhi |work = Assembly Elections May 2011 Results| publisher = Election Commission of India |access-date = 2011-05-24 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=258|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Sonamukhi | publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 2011-05-06 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.ceowestbengal.nic.in/mis_pdf/election_2011/canddtl_5th_phase.pdf |title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Sonamukhi |publisher = Election Commission of India |access-date = 2011-05-06 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110912030706/http://www.ceowestbengal.nic.in/mis_pdf/election_2011/canddtl_5th_phase.pdf |archive-date = 2011-09-12 }}</ref> }}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Ajit Ray
|votes = 86,125
|percentage = 46.05
|change = +0.67
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Dipali Saha]]
|votes = 77,406
|percentage = 41.39
|change = -8.41
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Debjani Roy
|votes = 15,118
|percentage = 8.08
|change = +3.46
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = None of the above
|votes = 4,811
|percentage = 2.57
|change = +2.57
}}{{Election box turnout
|votes = 1,87,035
|percentage = 88.99
|change = -2.55
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|loser = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2011===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Sonamukhi <ref name="Sonamukhi">{{cite web| url = http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS25258.htm|title = Sonamukhi |work = Assembly Elections May 2011 Results| publisher = Election Commission of India |access-date = 2011-05-24 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=258|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Sonamukhi | publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 2011-05-06 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.ceowestbengal.nic.in/mis_pdf/election_2011/canddtl_5th_phase.pdf |title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Sonamukhi |publisher = Election Commission of India |access-date = 2011-05-06 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110912030706/http://www.ceowestbengal.nic.in/mis_pdf/election_2011/canddtl_5th_phase.pdf |archive-date = 2011-09-12 }}</ref> }}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Dipali Saha]]
|votes = 82,199
|percentage = 49.80
|change = +11.34#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Monoranjan Chongre
|votes = 74,910
|percentage = 45.38
|change = -11.01
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Madhab Bagdi
|votes = 7,961
|percentage = 4.62
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 165,070
|percentage = 91.54
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing = 22.35#
}}
{{Election box end}}
<small>.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.</small>

===1977-2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006 state assembly elections]], Niresh Bagdi of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] won the Sonamukhi assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Dipali Saha of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sukhendu Khan of CPI(M) defeated Dipali Saha of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Haradhan Bauri of CPI(M) defeated Pulakesh Saha of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996 and Sastidhar Bagdi of Congress in 1991. Sukhendu Khan of CPI(M) defeated Kallol Saha of Congress in 1987, Sasthi Bauri of Congress in 1982 and Kanai Saha of [[Janata Party]] in 1977.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp256.htm |title = 256 - Sonamukhi (SC) Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 2011-04-03 }}</ref>

===1952-1972===
Gurupada Khan of Congress won in 1972. Sukhendu Khan of CPI(M) won in 1971 and 1969. K.Saha of Congress won in 1967. The Sonamukhi seat was not there in 1962 and 1957. In [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India's first election in 1952]], the Sonamukhi dual seat was won by Shishuram Mandal and Bhabataran Chakrabarty, both of Congress.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/electionstatistics.asp | title = Statistical Reports of Assembly Elections | access-date = 2011-04-03 | 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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{{Bankura topics}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Bankura district]]

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