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| Country | India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Murshidabad |
| Constituency No | 72 |
| Type | Open |
| Lok Sabha constituency | 10. Baharampur |
| Electorate (year) | 205,633 (2011) |
Baharampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (archaic spelling Berhampore) (Bengali: বহরমপুর বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 72 Baharampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Baharampur municipality, and Bhakuri I, Daulatabad, Gurudaspur, Hatinagar and Manindranagar gram panchayats of Berhampore community development block.[1]
Baharampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 10 Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
In the 2011 election , Manoj Chakraborty of Congress defeated his nearest rival Tarit Brahmachari of RSP.
| West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Baharampur [2][3][4] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Congress | Manoj Chakraborty | 91,578 | 54.90 | -4.52# | |
| RSP | Tarit Brahmachari | 48,265 | 28.93 | -7.86 | |
| BJP | Debasis Sarkar | 12,758 | 7.65 | ||
| Independent | Debjani Saha | 8,162 | 4.89 | ||
| SDPI | Tayebdul Islam | 3,787 | |||
| IPFB | Sujit Kumar Das | 1,331 | |||
| JD(U) | Sunil Kumar Mondal | 940 | |||
| Turnout | 166,821 | 81.13 | |||
| Congress hold | Swing | +3.34# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Manoj Chakraborty (Independent) vote percentages taken together in 2006.
| Party | Seats won | Seat change |
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| Indian National Congress | 14 | 8 |
| Trinamool Congress | 1 | 1 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 5 | 1 |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 1 | 4 |
| Samajwadi Party | 1 | 0 |
| Forward bloc | 0 | 1 |
In the 2006 state assembly elections Manoj Chakraborty, Independent, won the Berhampore assembly seat deafeating 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.[5]He was subsequently taken back into the Congress.[6]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 Gupla 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.[7]
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.[8]
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