Howrah Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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|name = Howrah Uttar 
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|map_caption = Location in West Bengal
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|subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Howrah district|Howrah]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No.]]
|subdivision_name3 = 170
|subdivision_type4 = Type
|subdivision_name4 = Open
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency)|25. Howrah]]
|subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
|subdivision_name6 = 171,318 (2011)

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'''Howrah Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' ({{lang-bn|হাওড়া উত্তর বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র}}) (earlier known as Howrah North) is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Howrah district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Overview==
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 170 Howrah Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 7 and 10 to 16 of [[Howrah Municipal Corporation]].<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/WestBengal/FINAL%20ORDER%20NOTIFICATION_English.pdf| title = Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006 | access-date= 25 July 2015|work = West Bengal | publisher= Election Commission of India}}</ref>

Howrah Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 25 [[Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation/>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
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! Election Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party Affiliation
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|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]||Howrah North||Biren Banerjee||[[Communist Party of India]]<ref name=vidhansabha1952>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|||Howrah South||Beni Charan Dutta||[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>
|-
|||Howrah West||Bankim Chandra Kar||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>
|-
|||Howrah East||Saila Kumar Mukhopadhyay||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||Howrah North||Samar Mukhopadhyay||Communist Party of India<ref name=vidhansabha1957>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|||Howrah South||Kanai Lal Bhattacharya||[[All India Forward Bloc]]<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>
|-
|||Howrah West||Bankim Chandra Kar||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>
|-
|||Howrah East||Beni Charan Dutta||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||Howrah North||Saila Mukherjee||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1962>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|||Howrah South||Kanai Lal Bhattacharya||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1962/>
|-
|||Howrah West||Anadi Dass||Independent<ref name=vidhansabha1962/>
|-
|||Howrah East||Bejoy Bhattacharya||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1962/>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||Howrah North||S.K.Mukherjee||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1967>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1969||||Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1969>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1969/StatReport_WB_69.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission |access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||Shankar Lal Mukherjee||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1971>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No ?|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1972||||Shankar Lal Mukherjee||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1972>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf |title =General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1977||||[[Chittabrata Majumdar]]||[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<ref name=vidhansabha1977>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportWestBengal77.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1982||||[[Ashok Ghosh (TMC politician)|Ashok Ghosh]]||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1982>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1982/StatisticalReportWestBengal82.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1987||||[[Ashok Ghosh (TMC politician)|Ashok Ghosh]]||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1987>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1987/StatisticalReportWestBengal87.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1991||||Lagan Deo Singh||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1991>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/StatisticalReport-West%20Bengal91.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No | publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1996||||Lagan Deo Singh||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1996>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-WB96.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref>
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|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||Lagan Deo Singh||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha2001>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||Lagan Deo Singh||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha2006>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_WB_2006.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||Howrah Uttar||[[Ashok Ghosh (TMC politician)|Ashok Ghosh]]||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha2011>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2011.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]||Howrah Uttar||[[Laxmi Ratan Shukla]]||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|}
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]||Howrah Uttar||[[Gautam Choudhury]]||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|}

==Election results==

===2021===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Howrah|Howrah Uttar]]}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Goutam Chowdhury
|votes = 71,575
|percentage = 47.81
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Umesh Rai
|votes = 66,053
|percentage = 44.12
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Pawan Singh
|votes = 8,133
|percentage = 5.43
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = None of the above
|votes = 1,670
|percentage = 1.12
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent (politician)|IND]]
|candidate = Subhash Kumar Singhi
|votes =911
|percentage =0.61
|change =
}}

{{Election box majority
|votes = 5,522
|percentage = 3.69
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 1,49,762
|percentage = 68.53
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===
{{Election box begin
|title=[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Howrah|Howrah Uttar]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Laxmi Ratan Shukla]]
|votes = 61,917
|percentage = 46.40
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Santosh Kumar Pathak
|votes = 34,958
|percentage = 26.20
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = [[Roopa Ganguly]]
|votes = 31,416
|percentage = 23.50
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent (politician)|IND]]
|candidate = Subodh Pathak
|votes = 1,146
|percentage = 0.9
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = None of the above
|votes = 1,070
|percentage = 0.79
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 26,959
|percentage = 20.02
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes =1,34,764
|percentage = 67.98
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

.# Swing calculated on [[Left Front (West Bengal)|LF]]+[[Indian National Congress|Congress]] vote percentages taken together in 2016.

===2011===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Howrah|Howrah Uttar]]<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=170|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Howrah Uttar| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 1 May 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Ashoke Ghosh
|votes = 61,468
|percentage = 49.25
|change = +7.29
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Nemai Samanta
|votes = 41,858
|percentage = 33.54
|change = -20.46
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Umesh Rai
|votes = 16,494
|percentage = 13.22
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent politician|IND]]
|candidate = Hitendranath Mondal
|votes = 1,514
|percentage = 1.21
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Siddhartha Sarkar
|votes = 761
|percentage = 0.61
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 19,610
|percentage = 15.71
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 1,24,865
|percentage = 72.52
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing = 27.75#
}}
{{Election box end}}
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

===1977-2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006]], 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections Lagan Deo Singh of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] won the Howrah North assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Bani Singha of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] in 2006, Asok Ghosh of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in the three other years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Asok Ghosh of Congress defeated Lagan Deo Singh of CPI(M) in 1987 and [[Chittabrata Majumdar]] of CPI(M) in 1982. Chittabrata Mazumdar of CPI(M) defeated Supriya Basu of Congress in 1977.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp162.htm |title =162 - Howrah North Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 25 November 2010 }}</ref>

===1967-1972===
Shankarlal Mukherjee of Congress won in 1972<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> and 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee of Congress won in 1969.<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> S.K.Mukherjee of Congress won in 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/>

===1951-1962===
During the period Howrah had four Vidhan Sabha constituencies.

====Howrah North====
Saila Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962.<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> Samar Mukhopadhyay of [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] won in 1957.<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> Biren Banerjee of CPI won in 1951.<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>

====Howrah West====
Anadi Dass, Independent, won in 1962.<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> Bankim Chandra Kar of Congress won in 1957<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> and 1951.<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>

====Howrah East====
Bejoy Bhattacharyya of Congress won in 1962.<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> Beni Charan Dutta of Congress won in 1957.<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> Saila Kumar Mukhopdhyay of Congress won in 1951.<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>

For results of Howrah South constituency see [[Howrah Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]]

==References==
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