222 Jhargram Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Jhargram municipality, Bandhgora, Manikpara, Radhanagar and Sapdhara gram panchayats of Jhargram community development block and Binpur I community development block.

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Amar Basu of CPI(M) won the Jhargram assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Shivendra Bijoy Malladeb of Congress.

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned.

Mina Sanatani of CPI(M) defeated Makhan Lal Bangal of Trinamool Congress in 2001.

Ram Chandra Satpathy of CPI(M) defeated Birendra Bijoy Malladeb of Congress in 1977.