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Ausgram Assembly constituency

Ausgram
Constituency No. 273 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Ausgram Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
LS constituency	Bolpur
Established	1951
Total electors	195,953
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Abhedananda Thander
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Ausgram is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian stateofWest Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes (SC).

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 273 Ausgram (SC) assembly seat covers Ausgram I and Ausgram II CD Blocks, and Guskara municipality.^[1]

Ausgram assembly segment is part of No. 41 Bolpur (Lok Sabha constituency)^[1]

In the 2021 election, Abhedananda Thander of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kalita Maji of BJP.

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Ausgram (SC) constituency^[20][21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Abhedananda Thander	100,392	46.25	0.31
	BJP	Kalita Maji	88,577	40.80	33.34
	CPI(M)	Chanchal Kumar Majhi	20,399	9.40
	NOTA	None of the above	4,039	1.86
	SUCI(C)	Manasa Mete	1,972	0.91
	BSP	Sridam Goldar	1,701	0.78
Turnout			217,080
	AITC hold		Swing

In the 2016 election, Abhedananda Thander of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Basudeb Mete of CPI (M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Ausgram (SC) constituency^[18][19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Abhedananda Thander	90,450	45.94	new
	CPI(M)	Basudeb Mete	84,198	42.76	9.45
	BJP	Sanatan Maji	14,686	7.46
	NOTA	None of the above	3,817	1.94
	Independent	Kalpana Ankure	2,263	1.15
	SUCI(C)	Manasa Mete	1,485	0.75
Turnout			196,899	87.52
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

In the 2011 election, Basudeb Mete of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Chanchal Kumar Mondol of Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Ausgram^[22][23][24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Basudeb Mete	90,863	52.21	14.07
	INC	Chanchal Kumar Mondal	67,767	38.94	10.42
	BJP	Shanti Karmakar	7,663	4.40
	Independent	Nihar Kumar Hazra	3,989
	SUCI(C)	Manasa Mate	2,321
	JDP	Bireswar Maji	1,445
Turnout			174,048	88.82
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	-24.49#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages in 2006 taken together.

Sridhar Malik of CPI(M) won the seat in 1972 and 1971. Krishna Chandra Halder of CPI(M) won it in 1969 and 1967. In 1962, it was won by Kanai Lal Das of Congress. In 1952, the first year when this constituency was formed, and 1957, it had two seats, one general and the other reserved for SC. From 1962, it became a constituency reserved for SC. In 1951, the winners were Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay and Kanai Lal Das both of Congress.^[25]

Kartick Chandra Bag of CPI(M) won the Ausgram (SC) assembly seat in 2006, 2001 and 1996, defeating his nearest rivals Chhaya Chowdhuri of Trinamool Congress, Sukumar Mondal of Trinamool Congress and Sukumar Saha of Congress, in the respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sreedhar Malik of CPI(M) won the seat in 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977, defeating his nearest rivals, Chhaya Rani Chowdhury of Congress, Biswambhar Mondal of Congress, Chanchal Kumar Modal of Congress and Madan Lohar of Janata Party, in the respective years.^[26]