Chandannagar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
| Chandannagar | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 189 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Chandannagar Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Hooghly |
| LS constituency | Hooghly |
| Established | 1957 |
| Total electors | 198,602 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Overview
editAs per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 189 Chandanagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Chandernagore Municipal Corporation and Bhadreswar Municipality.[1]
Chandannagar Assembly constituency is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
edit| Election | Member | Party Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Chandernagore | ||
| 1957 | Hirendra Kumar Chattopadhyay | Independent[2] |
| 1962 | Bhabani Mukherjee | Communist Party of India[3] |
| 1967 | Bhabani Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[4] |
| 1969 | Bhabani Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5] |
| 1971 | Bhabani Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6] |
| 1972 | Bhabani Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7] |
| 1977 | Bhabani Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8] |
| 1982 | Bhabani Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9] |
| 1987 | Sandhya Chattopadhyay | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10] |
| 1991 | Sandhya Chattopadhyay | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11] |
| 1996 | Kamal Mukherjee | Indian National Congress[12] |
| 2001 | Kamal Mukherjee | Indian National Congress[13] |
| 2006 | Sibaprasad Bandopadhyay | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14] |
| Chandannagar | ||
| 2011 | Ashoke Kumar Shaw | All India Trinamool Congress[15] |
| 2016 | Indranil Sen | All India Trinamool Congress[16] |
| 2021 | Indranil Sen | All India Trinamool Congress |
Election results
edit2021
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Indranil Sen | 86,778 | 47.60 | ||
| BJP | Deepanjan Kumar Guha | 55,749 | 30.70 | ||
| CPI(M) | Gautam Sarkar | 33,702 | 18.40 | ||
| Majority | 31,029 | ||||
| Turnout | |||||
| AITC hold | Swing | ||||
2011
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Ashoke Kumar Shaw | 96,430 | 60.76 | +9.91# | |
| CPI(M) | Sibaprasad Banerjee | 53,391 | 33.64 | −12.01 | |
| BJP | Satya Bhusan Pathak | 5,109 | 3.22 | ||
| Independent | Subodh Ghoshal | 3,780 | 2.38 | ||
| Turnout | 158,710 | 79.91 | |||
| AITC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | 21.92# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
1977-2006
editIn the 2006 state assembly elections Sibaprosad Bandopadhyay of CPI(M) won the 182 Chandernagore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Ram Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Kamal Mukherjee of Congress defeated Ratan Lal Dasgupta of CPI(M) in 2001 and Sandhya Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) in 1996. Sandhya Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) defeated Kamal Mukherjee of Congress in 1991 and 1987. Bhabani Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Indumati Bhattacharya of Congress in 1982 and Asit Mukhopadhyay of Congress in 1977.[18]
1957-1972
editBhabani Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1972,[7] 1971,[6] 1969[5] and 1967.[4] Bhabani Mukherjee of CPI won in 1962.[3] Hirendra Kumar Chattopadhyay, Independent, won in 1957.[2]
1951-1962 Bhadreswar
editThe Bhadreswar seat was there between 1951 and 1962. Girija Bhushan Mukhopadhyay of CPI won in 1962.[3] Byomkesh Majumdar of Congress won in 1957[2] and in independent India's first election in 1951.[19]
References
edit- ^ a b "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
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- ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
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- ^ "General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^ "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^ "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislativer Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^ "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^ a b "General Elections, India, 2016, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal". Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Chandannagar. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 19 May 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
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- ^ "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.