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



|name = Suri 
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|other_name =
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|settlement_type = Vidhan Sabha constituency 
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|pushpin_map = India West Bengal#India
|map_caption = Location in West Bengal
|coordinates = {{coord|23|55|N|87|32|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 = [[Birbhum district|Birbhum]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No.]]
|subdivision_name3 = 285
|subdivision_type4 = Type
|subdivision_name4 = Open
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Birbhum (Lok Sabha constituency)|42. Birbhum]]
|subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
|subdivision_name6 = 198,677 (2011)

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'''Suri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Birbhum district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]]. The [[Rajnagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]] ceases to exist from 2011. In [[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]], Suri will be one of the 22 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=137341|title=Schedule for the General Elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry VVPAT Usage}}</ref>

==Overview==
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 285, Suri (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: [[Suri, Birbhum|Suri]] municipality, [[Suri I]] [[Community Development Block in India|CD Block]], [[Rajnagar (community development block)|Rajnagar]] CD Block, and Chinpai, Gohaliara, Parulia and Sahapur [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Dubrajpur (community development block)|Dubrajpur]] 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>

Suri (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 42 [[Birbhum (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name =delimitation/>

==Election results==

===2021===
{{Election box begin
|title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Suri}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Bikash Roy Chowdhury
|votes = 105,871
|percentage = 48.80
|change = {{increase}}1.12
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Jagannath Chattopadhyay
|votes = 98,551
|percentage = 45.50
|change = {{increase}}29.22
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Chanchal Chatterjee
|votes = 8,267
|percentage = 3.80
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Nitai Ankur
|votes = 2,084
|percentage = 1.00
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Khurshid Alam
|votes = 1,318
|percentage = 0.60
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes =
|percentage =
|change =
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{{Election box turnout
|votes =
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{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
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{{Election box end}}

===2016===
{{Election box begin
|title=[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Suri}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Asok Chattopadhyay
|votes = 94,036
|percentage = 47.68
|change = {{decrease}}3.89
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Dr. Ram Chandra Dome
|votes = 62,228
|percentage = 31.55
|change = {{decrease}}8.85
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = [[Joy Banerjee]]
|votes = 32,112
|percentage = 16.28
|change = {{increase}}12.39
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Sunil Soren
|votes = 2,748
|percentage = 1.39
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Swadhin Dului
|votes = 1,928
|percentage = 0.98
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = None of the above
|votes = 4,188
|percentage = 2.12
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 31,808
|percentage = 16.13
|change = +4.96
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 197,240
|percentage = 83.61
|change = -2.52
}}
{{Election box Registered electors
|reg. electors = 235,902
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2011===
In the 2011 election, Swapan Kanti Ghosh of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Abdul Ghaffar of CPI(M).

{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Suri <ref>{{cite web| url = http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS25285.htm|title = Suri|work = Assembly Elections May 2011 Results| publisher = Election Commission of India |access-date = 2011-05-28 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=285|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Suri| 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 = Suri |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 = Swapan Kanti Ghosh
|votes = 88,244
|percentage = 51.57
|change = +5.15#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Abdul Gaffar
|votes = 69,127
|percentage = 40.40
|change = -8.11
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Partha Pratim De
|votes = 6,649
|percentage = 3.89
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Maniruddin Sheikh
|votes = 3,926
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Ujjwal Kumar Sow Mondal
|votes = 2,009
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Rabilal Hembram
|votes = 1,168
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 171,123
|percentage = 86.13
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing = +13.26#
}}
{{Election box end}}
<small>.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.</small>

===1977-2006===
In the 2006 state assembly elections Tapan Roy of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] won the Suri assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Swapan Kanti Ghosh of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Braja Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated [[Suniti Chattaraj]] of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] in 2001. [[Suniti Chattaraj]] of Congress defeated Tapan Roy of CPI(M) in 1996. Tapan Roy of CPI(M) defeated [[Suniti Chattaraj]] of Congress in 1991 and 1987. [[Suniti Chattaraj]] of Congress defeated Keshab Das of CPI(M) in 1982 and Arun Kumar Chowdhury in 1977.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp288.htm | title = 288 - Suri Assembly Constituency | work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India| access-date = 2010-10-01 }}</ref>

===1951–1972===
Suniti Chattaraj of Congress won in 1972. [[Prativa Mukherjee]] of [[Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)|SUC]] in 1971 and 1969. Baidyanath Bandopadhyay of Congress won in 1967 and 1962. In 1957 and 1951 Suri was a joint seat with one seat being reserved for scheduled tribes. Turku Hansda of [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] and Mihirlal Chatterjee of [[Praja Socialist Party|PSP]] won in 1957. Nishapati Majhi and Gopika Bilas Sengupta, both of Congress, won in 1951.<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}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

{{West Bengal elections}}

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

Suri (Vidhan Sabha constituency) - Revision history

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