Kumargram (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

In the bye-elections held in 2014 Manoj Kumar Oraon of Revolutionary Socialist Party defeated Joachim Baxla of All India Trinamool Congress by 2,667 votes to the Kumargram seat.[15]

In the 2011 election, Dasrath Tirkey of RSP defeated his nearest rival Joachim Baxla of Trinamool Congress.

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

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Jalpaiguri district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Trinamool Congress	3	2
Congress	3	2
GJM-backed Independent	1	0
Revolutionary Socialist Party	3	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2	3

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections,[11] Dasrath Tirkey of RSP defeated Swapan Kujur and Paresh Chandra Das respectively, both Trinamool Congress. Salib Toppo of RSP defeated Krishna Chik Baraik of Congress in 1996[10] and Dudsai Topp of Congress in 1991.[9] Subodh Oraon of RSP defeated Khagendra Nath Thakur of Congress in 1987.[8] Subodh Oraon of RSP defeated Dutsai Toppo of Congress in 1982.[7] John Arther Baxla of RSP defeated Konda Bhagat of Congress in 1977.[6][17]

Debabrata Chatterjee of Congress won in 1972.[5] Pijush Kanti Mukherjee of Congress won in 1971,[4] 1969[3] and 1967.[2] Prior to that the Kumargram seat was not there. In 1962[18] and 1957,[19] Pijush Kanti Mukherjee of Congress won from the Alipurduars (Vidhan Sabha constituency). In independent India's first election in 1951[20] Alipurduars was a joint seat. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee and Dhirandra Nath Brahma Mandal won from there.