Raina Assembly constituency

Raina Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 261 Raina (SC) assembly constituency covers Raina II community development block and Hijalna, Natu, Palsona, Sehara, Narugram, Shyamsundar, and Rayna gram panchayats of Raina I community development block.¹

As per orders of Delimitation Commission it is part of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency.¹ Raina assembly segment was earlier part of Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency.

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Raina²¹

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Subhash Patra	103,487	44.37	4.86
	AITC	Mandira Dalui	102,653	44.01	3.45
	CPI(M)	Somnath Maji	19,674	8.43	2.62
	NOTA	None of the above	1,442	0.62	0.06
Majority			834	0.36	7.59
Turnout			233,245	94.72	6.15
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Raina²⁰

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Shampa Dhara	108,752	47.46	1.69
	BJP	Manik Roy	90,547	39.51	32.43
	CPI(M)	Basudeb Khan	25,332	11.05	34.5
	NOTA	None of the above	1,563	0.68
Majority			18,205	7.95
Turnout			229,166	88.57
	AITC hold		Swing

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Raina¹⁸

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nepal Ghorui	94,323	45.77	0.97
	CPI(M)	Basudeb Khan	93,875	45.55	5.57
	BJP	Kashinath Patra	14,589	7.08	5.40
	NOTA	None of the above	3,306	1.60
Majority			448	0.22	6.10
Turnout			2,06,093	87.61	4.63
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

Swapan Samanta of CPI(M) won the Raina assembly seat in 2006 defeating his nearest rival Nityananda Tah of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001 and 1996, Shyamaprosad Pal of CPI(M) defeated Arup Kumar Das of Trinamool Congress and Arabinda Bhattacharyya of Congress, in the respective years. In 1991, 1987 and 1982, Dhirendranath Chatterjee of CPI(M) defeated Sunil Das, Uday Sankar Sain and Sukumar Chattopadhyay, all of Congress, in the respective years. In 1977, Ram Narayan Goswami of CPI(M) defeated Ajit Krishna Bhattacharya of Congress.²²

Sukumar Chattopadhyay of Congress won the seat in 1972, and in 1971, it was won by Gokulananda Roy of CPI(M). Panchu Gopal Guha of CPI(M) won it in 1969, and Dasarathi Tah of PSP won it in 1967. Prabodh Kumar Guha of Congress won the seat in 1962. It was a double member seat in 1957 and 1951. In 1957, Dasarathi Tah and Gobardhan Pakray, both representing PSP, won the seats. In the first state assembly elections after independence in 1951, Dasarathi Tah and Mritunjoy Pramanik, both representing KMPP, won the Raina seats.²³