Tufanganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

In the 2011 elections, Arghya Roy Pradhan of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Dhananjoy Rava of CPI(M).

.# Trinamool Congress did not contest the seat in 2006.

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Cooch Behar district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Trinamool Congress	4	3
Indian National Congress	1	0
Forward bloc	4	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	0	4

In the 2006 state assembly elections,[14] Alaka Barman of CPI(M) won the 9 Tufanganj (SC) Assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Malati Rava (Ray) of BJP. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Puspa Chandra Das of CPI(M) defeated Sachindra Chandra Das representing Trinamool Congress in 2001[13] and representing Congress in 1996.[17] Debendranath Barman of CPI(M) defeated Mahesh Chandra Barman of Congress in 1991.[11] Manindranath Barma of CPI(M) defeated Sisir Isore of Congress in 1987,[10] Sankar Sen Ishore of Congress in 1982[9] and Surendra Narayan Roy Kungar of Congress in 1977.[8][18]

During 1967 to 1972 Tufanganj was a reserved seat for SC. Sisir Isore of Congress won in 1972[7] and 1971.[6] Akshay Kumar Barma of Congress won in 1969.[5] I.S.Sen of Congress won in 1967.[4] In 1962 and 1957, it was an open seat. Jiban Krishna Dey of CPI won in 1962.[3] Jatindra Nath Sinha Sarker of Congress won in 1957.[2]