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{{Infobox settlement



|name = Behala Paschim 
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|settlement_type = Vidhan Sabha Constituency 
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|subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
|subdivision_name1 = {{flagicon image|..West Bengal Flag(INDIA).png}} [[West Bengal]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[South 24 Parganas district|South 24 Parganas]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No]]
|subdivision_name3 = 154
|subdivision_type4 = Type
|subdivision_name4 = Open
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)|23. Kolkata Dakshin]]
|subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
|subdivision_name6 = 259,713 (2011)

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'''Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[South 24 Parganas district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Overview==
As per orders of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]], No. 154 Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: [[Ward No. 118, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|118]], [[Ward No. 119, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|119]], [[Ward No. 125, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|125]], [[Ward No. 126, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|126]], [[Ward No. 127, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|127]], [[Ward No. 128, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|128]], [[Ward No. 129, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|129]], [[Ward No. 130, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|130]], [[Ward No. 131, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|131]] and [[Ward No. 132, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|132]] of Kolkata 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 October 2010|work = West Bengal| publisher= Election Commission of India}}</ref>

Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 23 [[Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation/> Behala West was earlier part of [[Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/LS_2004/Vol_III_LS_2004.pdf | title = Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha | access-date = 1 November 2010 | work = Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies | publisher = Election Commission of India | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101006140327/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_2004/Vol_III_LS_2004.pdf| archive-date= 6 October 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Election Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party Affiliation
|-
|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]||Behala||Biren Roy||[[All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar)]]<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||||Rabindra Nath 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||||Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay||Communist Party of India<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||Behala West||Rabin Mukherjee||[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1969||||Rabin Mukherjee||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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|publisher= Election Commission |access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||Rabin Mukherjee||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1972||||Biswanath Chakraborty||Communist Party of India<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1977||||Rabin Mukherjee||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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1982||||Rabin Mukherjee||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1987||||Rabin Mukherjee||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1991||||Nirmal Mukherjee||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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1996||||Nirmal Mukherjee||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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||[[Partha Chatterjee (politician)|Partha Chatterjee]]||[[All India Trinamool Congress|West Bengal Trinamool Congress]]<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||Partha Chatterjee||All India Trinamool Congress<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=4 align=center|''Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Behala Paschim''
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||rowspan="3"|Behala Paschim||rowspan="3"|Partha Chatterjee||rowspan ="3"|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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|}

==Election results==
===2021===
In the 2021 elections, [[Partha Chatterjee (politician)|Partha Chatterjee]] of Trinamool Congress, defeated his nearest rival, [[Srabanti Chatterjee]] of BJP <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/elections/assembly-elections/bengal-polls-bjp-fields-actor-srabanti-chatterjee-against-tmc-heavyweight-partha-chatterjee-in-behala-west-11616118285366.html|title=BJP fields actor Srabanti Chatterjee against Partha Chatterjee in Behala West}}</ref>
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Behala|Behala Paschim]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Partha Chatterjee (politician)|Partha Chatterjee]]
|votes = 1,14,778
|percentage = 49.51
|change = +2.61
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = [[Srabanti Chatterjee]]
|votes = 63,894
|percentage = 27.56
|change = +19.36
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Nihar Bhakta
|votes = 47,509
|percentage = 20.49
|change = -22.31
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 2,433
|percentage = 1.05
|change = -0.81
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent politician|IND]]
|candidate = Sanat Kumar Bhakat
|votes = 873
|percentage = 0.38
|change =
}}

{{Election box majority
|votes = 50,884
|percentage = 22.14
|change = +17.85
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 2,32,249
|percentage = 74.15
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===
In the 2016 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kaustav Chatterjee of CPI(M).
{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Behala|Behala Paschim]]<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=154|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Behala Paschim| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 30 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=[[Partha Chatterjee (politician)|Partha Chatterjee]]|votes=1,02,114|percentage=46.90|change=-16.06}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=[[Kaustav Chatterjee]]|votes=93,218|percentage=42.80|change=+8.90}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Harikrishna Dutta|votes=17,962|percentage=8.20|change=+6.11}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=None of the above|candidate=[[None of the above]]|votes=4,137|percentage=1.86|change=''N/A''}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)|candidate=Mrityunjoy Roy|votes=1,494|percentage=0.70|change=''N/A''}}

{{Election box majority||votes=8,896|percentage=4.01|change=-24.96}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=2,22,253|percentage=75.49|change=-1.90}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
.# Swing calculated on [[Left Front (West Bengal)|LF]]+[[Indian National Congress|Congress]] vote percentages taken together in 2016.

===2011===
In the 2011 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Anupam Deb Sarkar of CPI(M).
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Behala|Behala Paschim]]<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=154|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Behala Paschim| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 30 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Partha Chatterjee (politician)|Partha Chatterjee]]
|votes = 1,27,870
|percentage = 62.96
|change = 10.57#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Anupam Debsarkar
|votes = 68,849
|percentage = 33.90
|change = -11.54
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Amalendu Roy Chowdhary
|votes = 4,248
|percentage = 2.09
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent politician|IND]]
|candidate = Jayanta Datta
|votes = 2,140
|percentage = 1.05
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 59,021
|percentage = 29.06
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 2,03,218
|percentage = 77.87
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing = 22.11#
}}
{{Election box end}}
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

===2006===
In the 2006 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Niranjan Chatterjee of CPI(M).
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2006]]: Behala Paschim constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=154|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Behala Paschim| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 30 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Partha Chatterjee (politician)|Partha Chatterjee]]
|votes = 82,259
|percentage = 48.80
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Niranjan Chatterjee
|votes = 76,532
|percentage = 45.40
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Anjali Mukherjee
|votes = 5,979
|percentage = 3.60
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Samir Kumar Halder
|votes = 1,062
|percentage = 0.60
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Tuhin Sarkar
|votes = 999
|percentage = 0.60
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Ashoke Kumar Halder
|votes = 957
|percentage = 0.60
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Nirmal Mukherjee
|votes = 648
|percentage = 0.40
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 5,727
|percentage = 3.4
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 168,504
|percentage = 74.7
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

.# Swing calculated on BJP+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

===1951-1972===
Biswanath Chakraborty of [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] won in 1972.<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> Rabin Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971,<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> 1969<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> and 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Prior to that Behala was a single seat. Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay of [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] won the Behala seat in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]]<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> and [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]].<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> In [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India's first election in 1951]],<ref name=vidhansabha1952/> Biren Roy of [[All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar)|Forward Bloc (RG)]] won the Behala seat.

===1977-2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006]] and 2001 Partha Chatterjee of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] won the Behala West assembly constituency defeating his nearest rivals Niranjan Mukherjee of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] in 2006<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> and Nirmal Mukherjee of CPI(M) in 2001.<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Nirmal Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Kumud Bhattacharya of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996,<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> and Lakshmi Kanta Basu of Congress in 1991.<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Rabin Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Lakshmi Kanta Basu of Congress in 1987,<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Aruna Ghosh Dastidar of Congress in 1982<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and Subodh Chandra Das of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp113.htm |title =113 - Behala West Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 25 October 2010}}</ref>

==References==
===Notes===
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===Citations===
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
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