Behala Paschim Assembly constituency
| Behala Paschim | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 154 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Kolkata |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Kolkata Dakshin |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 313,005 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Independent |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Behala Paschim Assembly constituency (earlier known as Behala West Assembly constituency) is a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata District in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview
[edit | edit source]As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Behala Paschim Assembly constituency is composed of the following:
Behala Paschim Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).[1][2]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
[edit | edit source]| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behala | |||
| 1952 | Biren Roy | All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar) | |
| 1957 | Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay | Communist Party of India | |
| 1962 | |||
| Behala West | |||
| 1967 | Rabin Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1969 | |||
| 1971 | |||
| 1972 | Biswanath Chakraborty | Communist Party of India | |
| 1977 | Rabin Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1982 | |||
| 1987 | |||
| 1991 | Nirmal Mukherjee | ||
| 1996 | |||
| 2001 | Partha Chatterjee | Trinamool Congress | |
| 2006 | |||
| Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Behala Paschim | |||
| 2011 | Partha Chatterjee | Trinamool Congress | |
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | Independent | ||
Election results
[edit | edit source]2021
[edit | edit source]In the 2021 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress, defeated his nearest rival, Srabanti Chatterjee of BJP.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Partha Chatterjee | 114,778 | 49.51 | +2.61 | |
| BJP | Srabanti Chatterjee | 63,894 | 27.56 | +19.36 | |
| CPI(M) | Nihar Bhakta | 47,509 | 20.49 | −22.31 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,433 | 1.05 | −0.81 | |
| IND | Sanat Kumar Bhakat | 873 | 0.38 | ||
| Majority | 50,884 | 22.14 | +17.85 | ||
| Turnout | 2,32,249 | 74.15 | |||
| AITC hold | Swing | ||||
2016
[edit | edit source]In the 2016 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kaustav Chatterjee of CPI(M).
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Partha Chatterjee | 1,02,114 | 46.90 | −16.06 | |
| CPI(M) | Kaustav Chatterjee | 93,218 | 42.80 | +8.90 | |
| BJP | Harikrishna Dutta | 17,962 | 8.20 | +6.11 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 4,137 | 1.86 | N/A | |
| SUCI(C) | Mrityunjoy Roy | 1,494 | 0.70 | N/A | |
| Majority | 8,896 | 4.01 | −24.96 | ||
| Turnout | 2,22,253 | 75.49 | −1.90 | ||
| AITC hold | Swing | ||||
.# Swing calculated on LF+Congress vote percentages taken together in 2016.
2011
[edit | edit source]In the 2011 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Anupam Deb Sarkar of CPI(M).
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Partha Chatterjee | 1,27,870 | 62.96 | 10.57# | |
| CPI(M) | Anupam Debsarkar | 68,849 | 33.90 | −11.54 | |
| BJP | Amalendu Roy Chowdhary | 4,248 | 2.09 | ||
| IND | Jayanta Datta | 2,140 | 1.05 | ||
| Majority | 59,021 | 29.06 | |||
| Turnout | 2,03,218 | 77.87 | |||
| AITC hold | Swing | 22.11# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
2006
[edit | edit source]In the 2006 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Niranjan Chatterjee of CPI(M).
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Partha Chatterjee | 82,259 | 48.80 | ||
| CPI(M) | Niranjan Chatterjee | 76,532 | 45.40 | ||
| INC | Anjali Mukherjee | 5,979 | 3.60 | ||
| Independent | Samir Kumar Halder | 1,062 | 0.60 | ||
| Independent | Tuhin Sarkar | 999 | 0.60 | ||
| Independent | Ashoke Kumar Halder | 957 | 0.60 | ||
| Independent | Nirmal Mukherjee | 648 | 0.40 | ||
| Majority | 5,727 | 3.4 | |||
| Turnout | 168,504 | 74.7 | |||
| AITC hold | Swing | ||||
.# Swing calculated on BJP+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
1977-2001
[edit | edit source]Nirmal Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Kumud Bhattacharya of Congress in 1996,[8] and Lakshmi Kanta Basu of Congress in 1991.[9] Rabin Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Lakshmi Kanta Basu of Congress in 1987,[10] Aruna Ghosh Dastidar of Congress in 1982[11] and Subodh Chandra Das of Congress in 1977.[12][13]
1952-1972
[edit | edit source]Biswanath Chakraborty of CPI won in 1972.[14] Rabin Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971,[15] 1969[16] and 1967.[17] Prior to that Behala was a single seat. Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay of CPI won the Behala seat in 1962[18] and 1957.[19] In independent India's first election in 1952,[20] Biren Roy of Forward Bloc (RG) won the Behala seat.
References
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