Baharampur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 72 Baharampur Assembly constituency covers Baharampur municipality, and Bhakuri I, Daulatabad, Gurudaspur, Hatinagar and Manindranagar gram panchayats of Berhampore community development block.
Baharampur Assembly constituency is part of No. 10 Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency.
Members of the Legislative Assembly YearNamePartyBerhampore1951Bijoy Kumar Ghosh19571962Sanat Kumar Raha1967S. Bhattacharya1969Sanat Kumar Raha1971Sankar Das Paul19721977Debabrata Bandyopadhyay198219871991Sankar Das Paul1996Maya Rani Paul20012006Manoj ChakrabortyMajor boundary changes; constituency renamed as Baharampur2011Manoj Chakraborty20162021Subrata Maitra2026
Election results 2026
2021
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2006 In the 2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election Manoj Chakraborty, Independent, won the Berhampore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Amal Karmakar of RSP. Manoj Chakraborty, contesting as an independent, was a rebel congress candidate put up by Adhir Choudhury as a protest against the official Congress candidate Maya Rani Paul. He was subsequently taken back into the Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Maya Rani Paul of Congress defeated Kartick Sahana of RSP in 2001, and Biswanath Banerjee of RSP in 1996. Sankar Das Paul of Congress defeated Ipsita Gupta of RSP in 1991. Debabrata Bandopadhyay of RSP defeated Sankar Das Paul of Congress in 1987 and 1982, and Subrata Saha of Congress in 1977.
1972 Sankar Das Paul of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Sanat Kumar Raha of CPI won in 1969. S. Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1967. Sanat Kumar Raha of CPI won in 1962. Bejoy Kumar Ghosh of Congress won in 1957 and in independent India's first election in 1951.
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