Singur Assembly constituency

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Singur
Constituency No. 188 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictHooghly
Lok Sabha constituencyHooghly
Established1951
Total electors205,434
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyAll India Trinamool Congress
Elected year2021

Singur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

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As 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

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Year Name Party
1951 Sourendra Nath Saha Communist Party of India
1951 Ajit Kumar Basu
1957 Provakar Pal Indian National Congress
1962
1967
1969 Gopal Bandopadhyay Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1971 Ajit Kumar Basu Communist Party of India
1972
1977 Dr Gopal Bandopadhyay Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982 Tarapada Sadhukhan Indian National Congress
1987 Bidyut Kumar Das Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991
1996
2001 Rabindranath Bhattacharjee All India Trinamool Congress
2006
2011
2016
2021 Becharam Manna

Election results

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2021

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West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Singur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Becharam Manna 101,077 48.15
BJP Rabindranath Bhattacharya 75,154 35.8
CPI(M) Srijan Bhattacharyya 30,016 14.3
Turnout
AITC hold Swing

2016

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West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Singur constituency[2][3]
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

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West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Singur constituency[2][4]
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

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In the 2006[5] and 2001[6] 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,[7] Chandra Sekhar Back of Congress in 1991[8] and Tarapada Sadhukhan of Congress in 1987.[9] 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.[11][12]

1951-1972

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Ajit Kumar Basu of CPI won in 1972[13] and 1971.[14] Gopal Bandopadhyay of CPI(M) won in 1969.[15] Provaakar Pal of Congress won in 1967,[16] 1962[17] and 1957.[18] In independent India's first election in 1951[19] Singoor (as spelt then) had a double seat. It was won by Sourendra Nath Saha and Ajit Kumar Basu, both of CPI.

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