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{{About|the Vidhan Sabha constituency in West Bengal, India|1 its namesake census town|Chopra, Uttar Dinajpur|2 its namesake community development block|Chopra (community development block)}}
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|name = Chopra 
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|map_caption = Location in West Bengal
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|subdivision_type = Country
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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 = [[Uttar Dinajpur district|Uttar Dinajpur]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No]]
|subdivision_name3 = 28
|subdivision_type4 = Type
|subdivision_name4 = Open
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Darjeeling (Lok Sabha constituency)|Darjeeling]]
|subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
|subdivision_name6 = 167,108 (2011)

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'''Chopra (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Uttar Dinajpur 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. 28 Chopra (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers [[Chopra (community development block)|Chopra]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]] and Kamalagaon Sujali [[gram panchayat]] of [[Islampur, Uttar Dinajpur (community development block)|Islampur]] community development block.<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 | access-date = 30 June 2014 | work = West Bengal | publisher = Election Commission of India}}</ref>

Chopra (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 4 [[Darjeeling (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name =delimitation/>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| class="wikitable"ìÍĦĤĠčw
|-
! Election<br/> Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party Affiliation
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||Chopra||Mohd. Afaque Choudhury ||[[Indian National Congress]]<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 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||||Mohd. Afaque Choudhury||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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||||A.Choudhury||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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1969||||Abdul Karim Chowdhury||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|publisher= Election Commission |access-date = 1 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||Abdul Karim Chowdhury||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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1972||||Abdul Karim Chowdhury||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 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1977||||Mohammad Bacha Munshi||[[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 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1982||||Mohammad Bacha Munshi||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 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1987||||[[Mohammad Mahamuddin]]||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 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1991||||Mahamuddin||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 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1996||||Mahamuddin||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 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||[[Hamidul Rahman]]||Independent<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 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||Anwarul Haque||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 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||||[[Hamidul Rahman]]||Independent<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 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]||||Hamidul Rahman||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]||||Hamidul Rahaman||All India Trinamool Congress
|-

|}

==Election results==

===2021===

In the [[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]], Hamidul Rahman of TMC defeated his nearest rival Md. Shahin Akhtar of BJP.

{{Election box begin | title= [[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Chopra constituency}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Hamidul Rahman]]
|votes = 1,24,923
|percentage = 61.20
|change = Winner
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Md. Shahin Akhtar
|votes = 60,018
|percentage = 29.40
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Anwarul Haque
|votes = 12,279
|percentage = 6.02
|change =
}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Amra Bangalee
|candidate = Ajoy Kumar Sinha
|votes = 3,166
|percentage = 1.55
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Surojit Kisku
|votes = 2,193
|percentage = 1.07
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[None of the above|NOTA]]
|candidate = None of the Above
|votes = 1,531
|percentage = 0.75
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 2,04,110
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===

In the [[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]], Hamidul Rahman of TMC defeated his nearest rival Anwarul Haque of CPI(M).

{{Election box begin | title= [[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Chopra constituency}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Hamidul Rahman]]
|votes = 74,390
|percentage = 41.81
|change = Winner
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Anwarul Haque
|votes = 57,530
|percentage = 32.34
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Sajen Ram Singha
|votes = 15,815
|percentage = 8.89
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent politician|Independent]]
|candidate = Ashok Roy
|votes = 15,618
|percentage = 8.78
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Jharkhand Disom Party
|candidate = Sarkar Murmu
|votes = 4,214
|percentage = 2.37
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Gorkha Janmukti Morcha
|candidate = Naseer Ahmed Khan
|votes = 3,531
|percentage = 1.98
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent politician|Independent]]
|candidate = Dr Md Tabibur Rahman
|votes = 2,681
|percentage = 1.50
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Ruhidas Uraw
|votes = 1,456
|percentage = 0.82
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[None of the above|NOTA]]
|candidate = None of the Above
|votes = 2,655
|percentage = 1.49
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 177,890
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2011===

In the 2011 election, Hamidul Rahman (Independent) defeated his nearest rival Anwarul Haque of CPI(M).

{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Chopra constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=28|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Chopra| publisher = Empowering India |access-date = 20 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = [[Hamidul Rahman]]
|votes = 64,289
|percentage = 44.62
|change = -0.78
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Anwarul Haque
|votes = 57,719
|percentage = 40.06
|change = -10.90
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Sekh Jalaluddin
|votes = 6,944
|percentage = 4.82
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Ashim Chandra Barman
|votes = 5,793
|percentage = 4.02
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Ruhidas Urao
|votes = 5,377
|percentage = 3.73
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Safiya Khatun
|votes = 2,178
|percentage = 1.51
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Joydeb Biswas
|votes = 178
|percentage = 0.12
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 6,570
|percentage = 4.56
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 1,44,084
|percentage = 86.22
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain
|winner = Independent (politician)|Independent
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
}}
{{Election box end}}

Hamidul Rahman, contesting as an independent candidate, was a rebel Congress candidate from Chopra. He was suspended from the party but the Raiganj MP, [[Deepa Dasmunsi]], campaigned for him.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110416/jsp/siliguri/story_13859959.jsp |title = Deepa backs rebels under Sonia nose - MP pleads for Congress ‘soldiers’ | publisher = The Telegraph, 16 April 2011 |access-date = 20 April 2011 | location=Calcutta, India | date=2011-04-16}}</ref> Of the 18 Congress rebels who fought the 2011 assembly elections, Hamidul Rahaman was the only one to win.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110514/jsp/nation/story_13981424.jsp | title = Rebels flattened but give pinpricks | access-date = 4 August 2011 | last = Ghosh| first = Barun| publisher = The Telegraph, 14 May 2011 | location=Calcutta, India | date=2011-05-14}}</ref>

<small>.# Change figure based on his own vote percentage as a Congress candidate in 2006.</small>
===1977-2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006 state assembly elections]],<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> Anwarul Haque of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] won the Chopra assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Hamidul Rahman of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Hamidul Rahaman, Independent, defeated Akbar Ali of CPI(M) in 2001.<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> Mahamuddin of CPI(M) defeated Hamidul Rahman of Congress in 1996,<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> Choudhury Md. Manjur Afaque of Congress in 1991<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> and Shiekh Jalaluddin Ahmad of Congress in 1987.<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Mahammad Bacha Munshi of CPI(M) defeated Sheikh Jalauddin of Congress in 1982<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and Narayan Chandra Sinha, Independent in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp27.htm | title =27 - Chopra Assembly Constituency | work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India| access-date = 29 August 2009}}</ref>

===1957-1972===
Abdul Karim Chowdhury of NDF/ Congress won in 1972,<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> 1971<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> and 1969.<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> A. Choudhry of Congress won in 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Mohd. Afaque Choudhury of Congress won the seat in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]]<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> and [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]].<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> Prior to that the constituency did not exist.

==References==
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[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
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