Sainthia (Vidhan Sabha constituency)


Sainthia is an assembly constituency in Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes. Mahammad Bazar ceases to be an assembly constituency from 2011. Sainthia is a newly constituted constituency.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 289, Sainthia is composed of the following: Sainthia municipality, Banagram, Deriapur, Fulur, Horisara, Hatora and Mathpalsa gram panchayats of Sainthia CD Block, Angar Garia, Bhutura, Charicha, Mohammad Bazar, Deucha and Puranagram gram panchayats of Mohammad Bazar CD Block, and Suri II CD Block.
Sainthia is part of No. 42 Birbhum.

Election results

2011

In the 2001 elections, Dhiren Bagdi of CPI defeated his nearest rival Parikshit Bala of Trinamool Congress.
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI vote percentage that year, for the now-defunct Mahammad Bazar constituency in 2006.