Baghmundi | |
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Vidhan Sabha constituency | |
Location in West Bengal | |
Coordinates: 23°12′0″N 86°03′0″E / 23.20000°N 86.05000°ECoordinates: 23°12′0″N 86°03′0″E / 23.20000°N 86.05000°E | |
Country | India |
State | West Bengal |
District | Purulia |
Constituency No. | 240 |
Type | Open |
Lok Sabha constituency | 35. Purulia |
Electorate (year) | 191,991 (2011) |
Baghmundi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 240 Baghmundi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) 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 (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 35 Purulia (Lok Sabha constituency).
.# Swing calculated on Congress and Forward Bloc vote percentages in 2006 in the now defunct Jhalda constituency.
Note: New constituency – 1, constituencies abolished – 3 (See for details)
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.