Baharampur Assembly constituency

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Baharampur
Constituency No. 72 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
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Interactive Map Outlining Baharampur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictMurshidabad
Lok Sabha constituencyBaharampur
Established1951
Total electors260,667
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party  BJP
Alliance  NDA
Elected year2021

Baharampur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

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As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 72 Baharampur Assembly constituency covers Baharampur municipality, and Bhakuri I, Daulatabad, Gurudaspur, Hatinagar and Manindranagar gram panchayats of Berhampore community development block.[1]

Baharampur Assembly constituency is part of No. 10 Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Year Name Party
Berhampore
1951 Bijoy Kumar Ghosh Indian National Congress
1957
1962 Sanat Kumar Raha Communist Party of India
1967 S. Bhattacharya Indian National Congress
1969 Sanat Kumar Raha Communist Party of India
1971 Sankar Das Paul Indian National Congress
1972
1977 Debabrata Bandopadhyay Revolutionary Socialist Party
1982
1987
1991 Sankar Das Paul Indian National Congress
1996 Maya Rani Paul
2001
2006 Manoj Chakraborty Independent politician
Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Baharampur
2011 Manoj Chakraborty Indian National Congress
2016
2021 Subrata Maitra Kanchan Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

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2021

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2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Baharampur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Subrata Maitra 89,340 45.21 Increase35.01
AITC Naru Gopal Mukherjee 62,488 31.62 Increase12.42
INC Manoj Chakraborty 40,167 20.33 Decrease48.87
NOTA None of the above 2,525 1.28
Majority 26,852 13.59 Decrease36.41
Turnout 1,97,607 75.81 Decrease4.39
Registered electors 2,60,667
BJP gain from INC Swing

2016

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In the 2016 election, Manoj Chakraborty of Congress defeated his nearest rival Sujata Banerjee of Trinamool Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Baharampur constituency[2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Manoj Chakraborty 127,762 69.20%
AITC Dr. Sujata Banerjee 35,489 19.20%
BJP Mala Banerjee 18,805 10.20%
SUCI(C) Kousik Chatterjee 1,727 0.90%
Independent Sujit Kumar Das 881 0.50%
Majority 92,273 50.00%
Turnout 1,84,664 80.20%
INC hold Swing +3.34#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.

2011

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In the 2011 election, Manoj Chakraborty of Congress defeated his nearest rival Tarit Brahmachari of RSP.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Baharampur constituency[2][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Manoj Chakraborty 91,578 54.90 +4.52#
RSP Tarit Brahmachari 48,265 28.93 −7.86
BJP Debasis Sarkar 12,758 7.65
Independent Debjani Saha 8,162 4.89
SDPI Tayebdul Islam 3,787 2.30
IPFB Sujit Kumar Das 1,331 0.80
JD(U) Sunil Kumar Mondal 940 0.60
Majority 43,313 26.0
Turnout 166,821 81.13
INC hold Swing +3.34#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.

2006

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In the 2006 election, Manoj Chakraborty of Congress MP of Baharampur, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Supported Independent defeated his nearest rival Amal Karmakar of RSP.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Baharampur constituency[2][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Manoj Chakraborty 94,562 50.60
RSP Amal Karmakar 68,836 36.80
INC Maya Rani Paul 16,596 8.90
Independent Apurba Banerjee 2,834 1.50
Independent Sunil Kumar Mandal 2,737 1.50
Independent Md. Hayatur Rahaman 1,516 0.80
Turnout 187,081 81.13
INC hold Swing +3.34#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Manoj Chakraborty (Independent) vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977–2006

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In the 2006 state assembly elections[6] Manoj Chakraborty, Independent, won the Berhampore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Amal Karmakar of RSP. Manoj Chakraborty, contesting as an independent, was a rebel congress candidate put up by Adhir Choudhury as a protest against the official Congress candidate Maya Rani Paul.[7] He was subsequently taken back into the Congress.[8] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Maya Rani Paul of Congress defeated Kartick Sahana of RSP in 2001,[9] and Biswanath Banerjee of RSP in 1996.[10] Sankar Das Paul of Congress defeated Ipsita Gupta of RSP in 1991.[11] Debabrata Bandopadhyay of RSP defeated Sankar Das Paul of Congress in 1987[12] and 1982,[13] and Subrata Saha of Congress in 1977.[14][15]

1951–1972

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Sankar Das Paul of Congress won in 1972[16] and 1971.[17] Sanat Kumar Raha of CPI won in 1969.[18] S. Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1967.[19] Sanat Kumar Raha of CPI won in 1962.[20] Bejoy Kumar Ghosh of Congress won in 1957[21] and in independent India's first election in 1951.[22]

References

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