Chowrangee Assembly constituency

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Chowrangee
Constituency No. 162 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictKolkata
Lok Sabha constituencyKolkata Uttar
Established1957
Total electors208,157
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyAll India Trinamool Congress
Elected year2021

Chowrangee Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Located at the heart of Kolkata, the capital city of the state, this has been a bastion of Trinamool Congress since the party's formation. Earlier, it was a stronghold of Indian National Congress, from which party two chief ministers, Bidhan Chandra Roy and Siddhartha Shankar Ray, had been elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

Overview

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As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Chowrangee Assembly constituency is composed of the following:

Chowrangee Assembly constituency is part of No. 24 Kolkata Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency).[1][2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Year Name Party
1957 Bijoy Singh Nahar Indian National Congress
1962 Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
1967 Siddhartha Shankar Ray
1969
1971 Sankar Ghose
1972
1977 Sandip Das Janata Party
1982 Sisir Kumar Bose Indian National Congress
1987 Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay
1991 Siddhartha Shankar Ray
1993^ Anil Chatterjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1996 Subrata Mukherjee Indian National Congress
2001 All India Trinamool Congress
2006 Subrata Bakshi
2011 Sikha Chowdhury (Mitra)
2014^ Nayna Bandyopadhyay
2016
2021
  • ^ by-election

Election results

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2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowrangee
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Nayna Bandyopadhyay 70,101 62.87
BJP Devdutta Maji 24,757 22.20
INC Santosh Pathak 14,266 12.80
NOTA None of the Above 1,212 1.09
BSP Swaminath Kori 264 0.24
Majority 45,344 41.07
Turnout 1,11,625 53.61
AITC hold Swing +
2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowrangee
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Nayna Bandyopadhyay 55,119 47.29 +7.15
INC Somen Mitra 41,903 36.95 +12.53
BJP Ritesh Tiwari 15,707 13.48 −11.64
None of the Above None of the Above 2,183 1.87 New
SUCI(C) Kartik Kumkar 612 0.53
Majority 13,216 10.34 −4.68
Turnout 1,16,557 56.20 +8.51
AITC hold Swing +7.15

By-election, 2014

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A by-election was held on 13 September 2014 following the resignation of the sitting MLA, Shikha Chowdhury (Mitra) who switched over from Trinamool Congress to Congress.[3]

By-election, 2014: Chowrangee
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Nayna Bandyopadhyay 38,328 40.14 −31.76
BJP Ritesh Tiwari 23,984 25.12 +20.78
INC Santosh Kumar Pathak 23,317 24.42 New
CPI(M) Adv. Faiyaz Ahmed Khan 8,890 9.09 New
Majority 14,344 15.02 −37.23
Turnout 96,650 47.69 −4.56
AITC hold Swing -31.76
2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowrangee
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Sikha Chowdhury (Mitra) 79,450 71.90
RJD Bimal Singh 21,711 19.65
BJP Shahnawaz Ahmed 4,799 4.34
AIMF Abdul Wahab 1,640 1.48
Majority 57,739 52.25
Turnout 1,10,506 54.42
AITC win

References

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