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{{Infobox settlement


| name = Tufanganj 
| 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|26|19|N|89|40|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 = [[Cooch Behar district|Cooch Behar]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No]]
| subdivision_name3 = 9
| subdivision_type4 = Type
| subdivision_name4 = Open
| subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
| subdivision_name5 = [[Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency)|2 Alipurduars (ST)]]
| subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
| subdivision_name6 = 183,075 (2011)
| area_code = Tufanganj 1no panchayat karjalay
| website =
| footnotes =
}}

'''Tufanganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Cooch Behar 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. 9 Tufanganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers [[Tufanganj]] municipality, [[Tufanganj II (Community development block)|Tufanganj II]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]], and Andaran Fulbari I, Balabhut, Dhalpal I, Nakkatigachh [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Tufanganj I (Community development block)|Tufanganj I]] 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 | access-date = 20 June 2014 | work = West Bengal| publisher = Election Commission}}</ref>

Tufanganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 2 [[Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency)]] (ST).<ref name =delimitation/>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| class="wikitable"ìÍĦĤĠčw
|-
! Election<br/> Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party Affiliation
|-
|1952
|Tufanganj
|Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar
|[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name="vidhansabha1957" />
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||Tufanganj||Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar||[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name="vidhansabha1957">{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||||Jiban Krishna Dey||[[Communist Party of India]]<ref name=vidhansabha1962>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||||Sankar Sen Ishore||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1967>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1969||||Akshay Kumar Barma||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1969>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1969/StatReport_WB_69.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||Sisir Isore||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1971>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1972||||Sisir Isore||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1972>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1977||||Manindra Nath Barma||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1977>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportWestBengal77.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1982||||Manindranath Barma||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1982>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1982/StatisticalReportWestBengal82.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1987||||Manindranath Barma||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1987>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1987/StatisticalReportWestBengal87.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1991||||Debendranath Barman||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1991>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/StatisticalReport-West%20Bengal91.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1996||||Puspa Chandra Das||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1996>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-WB96.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||Puspa Chandra Das||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha2001>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||Alaka Barman||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha2006>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_WB_2006.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||||Arghya Roy Pradhan||[[All India Trinamul Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha2011>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2011.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|}

==2016 Election==

In the [[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]], Fazal Karim Miah of TMC defeated his nearest rival Shyamal Chowdhury of Congress.

{{Election box begin | title= [[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Tufanganj constituency}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Fazal Karim Miah
|votes = 85,052
|percentage = 44.20 %
|change = Winner
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Shyamal Chowdhury
|votes = 69,782
|percentage = 36.26 %
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Bivas Sen Ishore
|votes = 30,048
|percentage = 15.60 %
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate |
|party = [[Independent politician|Independent]]
|candidate = Manoj Kumar Mandal
|votes = 1,958
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate |
|party = [[Kamtapur People's Party|KPP]]
|candidate = Nubash Barman
|votes = 1,744
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Santana Datta
|votes = 1,320
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate |
|party = [[None of the above|NOTA]]
|candidate = None of the Above
|votes = 2,498
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 192,402
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==Election results==
===2011===
In the 2011 elections, Arghya Roy Pradhan of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Dhananjoy Rava of CPI(M).

{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Tufanganj constituency <ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=9|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Tufanganj| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 20 April 2011}}</ref>}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Arghya Roy Pradhan
|votes = 73,721
|percentage = 45.02
|change = #
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Dhanonjoy Rava
|votes = 67,539
|percentage = 41.24
|change = -13.34
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Bimal Kumar Sarkar
|votes = 17,220
|percentage = 10.52
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = Independent
|candidate = Shiben Barman
|votes = 2,817
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = Independent
|candidate = Ganesh Dakua
|votes = 2,463
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 163,760
|percentage = 89.45
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

<small>.# Trinamool Congress did not contest the seat in 2006.</small>
{{Cooch Behar 2011 election summary}}

===1972-2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006 state assembly elections]],<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> Alaka Barman of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] won the 9 Tufanganj (SC) Assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Malati Rava (Ray) of [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Puspa Chandra Das of CPI(M) defeated Sachindra Chandra Das representing [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] in 2001<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> and representing [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996.<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> Debendranath Barman of CPI(M) defeated Mahesh Chandra Barman of Congress in 1991.<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Manindranath Barma of CPI(M) defeated Sisir Isore of Congress in 1987,<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Sankar Sen Ishore of Congress in 1982<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and Surendra Narayan Roy Kungar of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp09.htm| title = 9 - Tufanganj (SC) Assembly Constituency | work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India| access-date = 29 August 2009}}</ref>

===1957-1972===
During 1967 to 1972 Tufanganj was a reserved seat for SC. Sisir Isore of Congress won in 1972<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> and 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> Akshay Kumar Barma of Congress won in 1969.<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> I.S.Sen of Congress won in 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> In [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]] and [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]], it was an open seat. Jiban Krishna Dey of [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] won in 1962.<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> Jatindra Nath Sinha Sarker of Congress won in 1957.<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>

==References==
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{{Cooch Behar topics}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Cooch Behar district]]

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