Ausgram is an assembly

Vidhan Sabha

The Vidhan Sabha or the Legislative Assembly is the lower house or the sole house of the provincial legislature in the different states of India. The same name is also used for the lower house of the legislatures for two of the union territories, Delhi and Pondicherry...

 constituency in Bardhaman district

Bardhaman District

'Bardhaman district is a district in West Bengal. The headquarter of the district is Bardhaman, though it houses other important industrial towns like Durgapur and Asansol...

 in the India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n state

States and territories of India

India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories. The states and territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.-List of states and territories:...

 of West Bengal

West Bengal

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.

Extent

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 273 Ausgram (SC) assembly seat covers Ausgram I community development block, Ausgram II

Ausgram II (community development block)

Ausgram II is an administrative division in Bardhaman Sadar North subdivision of Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Ausgram and Bud Bud police stations serve this block. Headquarters of this block is at Amrargar...

 CD Block, and Guskara

Guskara

Guskara is a town and a municipality under Ausgram police station of Sadar subdivision in Barddhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.-Geography:Guskara is located at . It has an average elevation of 38 metres ....

 municipality.

Ausgram assembly segment is part of No. 41 Bolpur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Bolpur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Bolpur is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Bolpur in West Bengal. The seat was a free seat till 2004, but was declared reserved for scheduled castes from 2009 general elections....

2011

In the 2011 election , Basudeb Mete of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Chanchal Kumar Mondol of Congress.
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages in 2006 taken together.

1977-2006

Kartick Chandra Bag of CPI(M)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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 won the Ausgram (SC) assembly seat in 2006, 2001 and 1996, defeating his nearest rivals Chhaya Chowdhuri of Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress

The All India Trinamool Congress is a state political party in West Bengal. Founded in 1 January 1998, the party is led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Trinamool Congress is currently the second largest member of the ruling United Progressive Alliance coalition...

, Sukumar Mondal of Trinamool Congress and Sukumar Saha of Congress

Indian National Congress

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, 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

Janata Party

The Janata Party was an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the state of emergency imposed by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Indian National Congress...

, in the respective years.

1957-1972

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