Singur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
| Singur | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 188 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Singur Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Hooghly |
| LS constituency | Hooghly |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 205,434 |
| 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. 188 Singur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Anandanagore, Bagdanga Chinamore, Baruipara Paltagarh, Beraberi, Bighati, Bouichipota, Bora, Borai Pahalampur, Gopalnagore, Mirzapur-Bankipur, Nasibpur, Singur I and Singur II gram panchayats of Singur community development block and Begampur, Kapasaria and Panchghora gram panchayats of Chanditala II community development block.[1]
Singur Assembly constituency is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
edit| Election Year |
Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Singoor | Sourendra Nath Saha | Communist Party of India[2] |
| Ajit Kumar Basu | Communist Party of India[2] | ||
| 1957 | Singur | Provakar Pal | Indian National Congress[3] |
| 1962 | Provakar Pal | Indian National Congress[4] | |
| 1967 | Provakar Pal | Indian National Congress[5] | |
| 1969 | Gopal Bandopadhyay | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6] | |
| 1971 | Ajit Kumar Basu | Communist Party of India[7] | |
| 1972 | Ajit Kumar Basu | Communist Party of India[8] | |
| 1977 | Dr Gopal Bandopadhyay | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9] | |
| 1982 | Tarapada Sadhukhan | Indian National Congress[10] | |
| 1987 | Bidyut Kumar Das | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11] | |
| 1991 | Bidyut Kumar Das | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12] | |
| 1996 | Bidyut Kumar Das | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13] | |
| 2001 | Rabindranath Bhattacharjee | All India Trinamool Congress[14] | |
| 2006 | Rabindranath Bhattacharjee | All India Trinamool Congress[15] | |
| 2011 | Rabindranath Bhattacharjee | All India Trinamool Congress[16] | |
| 2016 | Rabindranath Bhattacharjee | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2021 | Becharam Manna | All India Trinamool Congress |
Election results
edit2021
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Becharam Manna | 101,077 | 48.15 | ||
| BJP | Rabindranath Bhattacharjee | 75,154 | 35.8 | ||
| CPI(M) | Srijan Bhattacharyya | 30,016 | 14.3 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| AITC hold | Swing | ||||
2016
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Rabindranath Bhattacharjee | 96,212 | 50.00% | ||
| CPI(M) | Rabin Deb | 75,885 | 39.50% | ||
| BJP | Souren Patra | 14,264 | 7.40% | ||
| Independent | Dwijaprasad Bhattacharya | 2,606 | 1.40% | ||
| PDS | Uma Das (Paul) | 1,712 | 0.90% | ||
| SUCI(C) | Shankar Jana | 1,667 | 0.90% | ||
| Majority | 20,327 | (10.6%) | |||
| Turnout | 1,92,346 | (84.8%) | |||
| AITC hold | Swing | ||||
2011
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Rabindranath Bhattacharjee | 100,869 | 57.61 | +4.29# | |
| CPI(M) | Dr. Asit Das | 66,058 | 37.73 | −8.95 | |
| BJP | Souren Patra | 8,158 | 4.66 | ||
| Turnout | 175,085 | 85.23 | |||
| AITC hold | Swing | 13.24# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
1977-2006
editIn the 2006[15] and 2001[14] state assembly elections, Rabindranath Bhattacharya of Trinamool Congress won the Singur assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals, Srikanta Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) and Bidyut Kumar Das of CPI(M) respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Bidyut Kumar Das of CPI(M) defeated Dwijaprosad Bhattacharya of Congress in 1996,[13] Chandra Sekhar Back of Congress in 1991[12] and Tarapada Sadhukhan of Congress in 1987.[11] Tarapada Sadhukhan of Congress defeated Gopal Bandopadhyay of CPI(M) in 1982.[10] Gopal Bandopadhyay of CPI(M) defeated Tarapada Sadhukhan of Congress in 1977.[9][19]
1951-1972
editAjit Kumar Basu of CPI won in 1972[8] and 1971.[7] Gopal Bandopadhyay of CPI(M) won in 1969.[6] Provaakar Pal of Congress won in 1967,[5] 1962[4] and 1957.[3] In independent India's first election in 1951[2] Singoor (as spelt then) had a double seat. It was won by Sourendra Nath Saha and Ajit Kumar Basu, both of CPI.
References
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