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|name = Behala Purba 
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|settlement_type = Vidhan Sabha Constituency 
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|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{IND}}
|subdivision_type1 = 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 = 153
|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 = 242,059 (2011)

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'''Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency [[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. 153 Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. [[Ward No. 115, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|115]], [[Ward No. 116, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|116]], [[Ward No. 117, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|117]], [[Ward No. 120, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|120]], [[Ward No. 121, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|121]], [[Ward No. 122, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|122]], [[Ward No. 123, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|123]], [[Ward No. 124, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|124]], [[Ward No. 142, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|142]],
[[Ward No. 143, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|143]] and [[Ward No. 144, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|144]]
of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 23 [[Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kolkata Dakshin]].<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 East was earlier part of [[Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jadavpur]].<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==
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|-
! 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 East||Niranjan 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||||Niranjan 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||||Niranjan 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||||Indrajit Majumdar||[[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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1977||||Niranjan 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||||Niranjan 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||||Niranjan 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||||Kumkum Chakraborti||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||||Kumkum Chakraborti||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]]||||Parash Dutta||[[All India 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]]||||Kumkum Chakraborti||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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=4 align=center|''Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Behala Purba''
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||Behala Purba||[[Sovan Chatterjee]]||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]]||Behala Purba||[[Sovan Chatterjee]]||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha2016>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2016.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2016, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
||[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]||Behala Purba||[[Ratna Chatterjee]]||All India Trinamool Congress
|}

==Election results==
===2021===

{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Behala|Behala Purba]] }}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=Ratna Chatterjee|votes=1,10,968|percentage=50.01|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=[[Payel Sarkar]]|votes=73,540|percentage=33.15|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=Samita Har Chowdhury|votes=30,172|percentage=13.60|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=None of the above|party=None of the Above|votes=2,835|percentage=1.28|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Rina Roy|votes=1,175|percentage=0.53|change=}}

{{Election box majority||votes=37,428|percentage=17.08|change=}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=2,21,885|percentage=71.97|change=}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===

{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Behala|Behala Purba]] }}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=[[Sovan Chatterjee]]|votes=96,621|percentage=47.33|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent (politician)|candidate=Ambikesh Mahapatra|votes=72,327|percentage=35.43|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Chandra Bhan Singh|votes=21,854|percentage=10.71|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Shiv Sena|candidate=Sumit Banerjee|votes=3,649|percentage=1.79|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=None of the above|party=None of the Above|votes=3,919|percentage=1.92|change=}}
{{Election box majority||votes=24,294|percentage=11.90|change=}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=2,05,294|percentage=73.83|change=}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2011===
In 2011 Sovan Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kumkum Chakraborty of CPI(M),
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Behala|Behala Purba]]<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=153|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Behala Purba| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 30 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Sovan Chatterjee]]
|votes = 1,16,709
|percentage = 60.28
|change = +14.33
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Kumkum Chakraborty
|votes = 68,536
|percentage = 35.40
|change = -15.33
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = A. Biswajit Naidu
|votes = 3,692
|percentage = 1.91
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Indrajit Kumar Halder
|votes = 1,170
|percentage = 0.60
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent politician|IND]]
|candidate = Tarun Kanti Das
|votes = 1,131
|percentage = 0.58
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 48,173
|percentage = 24.88
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 1,94,208
|percentage = 79.79
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing = 30.50#
}}
{{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 state assembly elections]],<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> Kumkum Chakraborti of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] won the Behala East assembly seat defeating her nearest rival [[Sovan Chatterjee]] of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Parash Dutta of Trinamool Congress defeated Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) in 2001.<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) defeated Sonali Guha of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996,<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> and Sailen Dasgupta of Congress in 1991.<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Niranjan Mukherjeee of CPI(M) defeated Debashis Bhattacharya of Congress in 1987,<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Balaram Goswami of Congress in 1982,<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and Indrajit Mazumdar of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp112.htm |title = 112 – Behala East Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 25 October 2010}}</ref>

===1951–1972===
Indrajit Majumdar of Congress won the Behala East seat in 1972.<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> Niranjan 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.

==References==
===Notes===
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===Citations===
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{{South 24 Parganas topics}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of South 24 Parganas district]]

Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) - Revision history

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