Sabang Assembly constituency

Sabang
Sabang
Constituency No. 226 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Interactive Map Outlining Sabang Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Paschim Medinipur
Lok Sabha constituency	Ghatal
Established	1951
Total electors	206,413
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	18th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Amal Kumar Panda
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2026
Preceded by	Manas Bhunia

Most Successful Parties from Sabang Assembly

Indian National Congress (9 times) (60.0%)
Biplobi Bangla Congress (2 times) (13.3%)
All India Trinamool Congress (2 times) (13.3%)
Independent politician (1 time) (6.67%)
Bharatiya Janata Party (1 time) (6.67%)

Sabang Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 226 Sabang Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Sabang community development block and Jalchak I, Jalchak II and Maligram gram panchayats of Pingla community development block.^[1]

Sabang Assembly constituency is part of No. 32 Ghatal (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1] It was earlier part of Panskura (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name of M.L.A.
1951	Gopal Chandra Das Adhikary	Indian National Congress^[2]
1957
1962	Aditya Kumar Bakura
1977	Gouranga Samanta	Biplobi Bangla Congress^[3]^[4]
1982	Manas Ranjan Bhunia	Indian National Congress^[5]
1987
1991
1996	Makhan Lal Bangal	Independent^[6]
2001	Tushar Kanti Laya	Biplobi Bangla Congress^[7]
2006	Manas Ranjan Bhunia	Indian National Congress^[8]
2011
2016
2017^	Geeta Rani Bhunia	Trinamool Congress
2021	Manas Ranjan Bhunia
2026	Amal Kumar Panda	Bharatiya Janata Party

^ denotes by-election

Election results

2026

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sabang^[9]
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Amal Kumar Panda	127,783	49.66	6.38
	AITC	Manas Bhunia	116,647	45.33	2.13
	CPI(M)	Nakul Chandra Bera	6,978	2.71
	NOTA	None of the above	1,305	0.51	0.14
Majority	11,136	4.33	0.15
Turnout	257,340	93.63	4.42
	BJP gain from AITC	Swing

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sabang^[10]
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Manas Ranjan Bhunia	112,098	47.46	3.75
	BJP	Amulya Maity	102,234	43.28	25.2
	INC	Chiranjib Bhowmik	17,443	7.38	1.33
	NOTA	None of the above	1,534	0.65
Majority	9,864	4.18
Turnout	236,201	89.21
	AITC hold	Swing

2017

By Election, 2017: Sabang
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Geeta Rani Bhunia	106,185	51.21	14.61
	BBC	Rita Mandal (Jana)	41,989	20.25
	BJP	Antara Bhattacharya	37,483	18.08	15.48
	INC	Ranjib Bhowmik	18,063	8.71	50.99
	SUCI(C)	Dinesh Maikap	2,079	1.00	0.20
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,535	0.74	0.04
Majority	64,196	30.96	7.86
Turnout	207,334	84.44
	AITC gain from INC	Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Sabang^[11]^[12]^[13]
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Manas Bhunia	127,987	59.70	8.45
	AITC	Nirmal Ghosh	77,820	36.60
	BJP	Kashinath Basu	5,610	2.64	1.34
	SUCI(C)	Dinesh Maikap	2,486	1.17	0.09
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,489	0.7
Majority	49,167	23.1	16.26
Turnout	212,903	89.1
	INC hold	Swing

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

2011

In the 2011 election, Manas Ranjan Bhunia of Congress defeated his nearest rival Ram Pada Sahoo of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Sabang^[14]^[11]
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Manas Ranjan Bhunia	98,755	51.25	1.95#
	BBC	Rama Pada Sahoo	85,571	44.41	0.57
	BJP	Sabyasachi Sau	2,507	1.3
	SUCI	Narayan Chandra Adhikari	2,437	1.26
	BSP	Narayan Chandra Samat	2,171	1.13
	Independent	Ram Krishna Sarkar	1,235	0.64
Majority	13,184	6.84
Turnout	192,676	93.94
	INC hold	Swing

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

2006

2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sabang
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Manas Ranjan Bhunia	68,592	49.70
	CPI(M)	Tushar Kanti Laya	62,079	44.98
	AITC	Amulya Maity	4,828	3.50
	IND	Jagannath Das	2,503	1.81
Majority	6,513	4.72
Turnout	138,002
	Swing to INC from CPI(M)	Swing

2001

2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sabang
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Tushar Kanti Laya	62,611	51.15
	INC	Manas Ranjan Bhunia	56,354	46.04
	BJP	Nirmal Kumar Bala	1,409	1.15
	IND	Jagannath Das	1,140	0.93
	IND	Sila Bangal	892	0.73
Majority	6,257	5.11
Turnout	123,298	91.15
	Swing to CPI(M) from Independent	Swing

1996

1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sabang
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	IND	Bangal Makhanlal	60,453	49.91
	INC	Manas Bhunia	59,628	49.23
	BJP	Jana Nagendranath	594	0.49
	IND	Bhusan Mandal	453	0.37
Majority	825	0.68
Turnout	121,167	95.83
	Swing to Independent from INC	Swing

1991

1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sabang
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Manas Ranjan Bhunia	53,485	50.65
	CPI(M)	Gouranga Samanta	50,414	47.74
	BJP	Jana Nagendra Nath	1,028	0.97
	IND	Bhusan Chandra Mondal	577	0.55
	AMB	Tapas Maity	97	0.09
Majority	3,071	2.91
Turnout	106,949	91.41
	INC hold	Swing

1987

1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sabang
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Manas Ranjan Bhunia	45,376	50.78
	CPI(M)	Hare Krishna Samanta	42,261	47.29
	SUCI(C)	Bhusan Chandra Mondal	1,350	1.51
	IND	Benodbehari Maity	375	0.42
Majority	3,115	3.49
Turnout	90,096	89.20
	INC hold	Swing

1982

1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sabang
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Manas Bhunia	34,815	46.88
	IND	Hemanta Kumar Jana	34,185	46.03
	IND	Gouranga Samanta	2,803	3.77
	JP	Suryya Kanta Mahapatra	1,518	2.04
	IND	Lal Mohan Baskey	943	1.27
Majority	630	0.85
Turnout	75,359	87.90
	Swing to INC from BBC	Swing

1977

1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sabang
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BBC	Gouranga Samanta	19,730	41.94
	JP	Surya Kanta Mahapatra	13,425	28.54
	INC	Gopal Chandra Das Adhikari	12,569	26.72
	IND	Tuhin Baran Maiti	1,016	2.16
	IND	Akash Pattanayak	303	0.64
Majority	6,305	13.40
Turnout	47,840	67.94
	Swing to BBC from INC	Swing

1962

1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sabang
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Aditya Kumar Bakura	25,535	53.01
	IND	Gouranga Chandra Samanta	22,636	46.99
Majority	2,899	6.02
Turnout	50,040	69.10
	INC hold	Swing

1957

1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sabang
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Gopal Chandra Das Adhikari	18,882	50.35
	ABJS	Gauranga Chandra Samanta	13,401	35.73
	CPI	Pulin Behari Maity	4,201	11.20
	IND	Abhoy Charan Tudu (ST)	1,018	2.71
Majority	5,481	14.62
Turnout	37,502	58.73
	INC hold	Swing

1951

1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sabang
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Gopal Chandra Das Adhikary	11,454	36.97
	IND	Gouranga Chandra Samanta	10,474	33.80
	KMPP	Jnanendra Das	5,568	17.97
	Socialist	Jatindra Nath Das	2,546	8.22
	CPI	Pulak Bera	944	3.05
Majority	980	3.17
Turnout	30,986	55.83
	INC win (new seat)

References

1 2 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
↑ "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
↑ List of Members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly: Together with the List of ... Superintendent, Government Printing, West Bengal. 1978. p. 113.
↑ Communist Party of India (Marxist). West Bengal State Committee. Election results of West Bengal: statistics & analysis, 1952-1991. The Committee. p. 419.
↑ "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
↑ "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
↑ "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
↑ "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
↑ "West Bengal General Legislative Election 2026 Statistical Report". Election Commission of India.
↑ "West Bengal General Legislative Election 2021 Statistical Report". Election Commission of India.
1 2 "Sabang". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
↑ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Sabang. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
↑ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). Sabang. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
↑ "Sabang". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2011.

[delimitation-1] 1 2 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2010.

[vidhansabha1952-2] "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.

[election1978-3] List of Members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly: Together with the List of ... Superintendent, Government Printing, West Bengal. 1978. p. 113.

[Committee-4] Communist Party of India (Marxist). West Bengal State Committee. Election results of West Bengal: statistics & analysis, 1952-1991. The Committee. p. 419.

[vidhansabha1982-5] "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.

[vidhansabha1996-6] "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.

[vidhansabha2001-7] "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.

[vidhansabha2006-8] "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.

[election2026-9] "West Bengal General Legislative Election 2026 Statistical Report". Election Commission of India.

[election2021-10] "West Bengal General Legislative Election 2021 Statistical Report". Election Commission of India.

[Sabang-11] 1 2 "Sabang". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2011.

[election2012-12] "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Sabang. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2011.

[election2011-13] "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). Sabang. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2011.

[Sabang-1-14] "Sabang". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2011.

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