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West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Raina^[20]

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	34.50
	BSP	Pallab Biswas	1,871	0.82
	BMUP	Rabi Routh	1,101	0.48
	NOTA	None of the above	1,563	0.68
Turnout			229,166
	AITC hold		Swing

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

1977-2006

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.^[25]

1951-1972

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.^[26]