Baghmundi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)


Baghmundi is an assembly constituency in Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 240 Baghmundi is composed of the following: Jhalda municipality; Jhalda I and Baghmundi community development blocks; Hetgugui and Sirkabad gram panchayats of Arsha community development block.
Baghmundi is part of No. 35 Purulia.

Election results

2011

.# Swing calculated on Congress and Forward Bloc vote percentages in 2006 in the now defunct Jhalda constituency.

1951

While in 2011 Baghmundi is a newly created constituency in West Bengal, it was there in independent India’s first election in 1951. The areas now part of Purulia district were then part of Bihar. Sirish Chandra Banerjee of Lok Sewak Sangh won the Baghmundi seat.