| Bally | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 169 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Howrah |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Howrah |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 142,337 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent Sanjay Kumar Singh | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Elected year | 2026 |
Bally Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview[edit | edit source]
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 169 Bally Assembly constituency is composed of Bally Municipality which is merged with Howrah Municipal Corporation now.
Bally Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
Members of the Legislative Assembly[edit | edit source]
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Ratan Moni Chattopadhyay | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | Motilal Basu | ||
| 1962 | Shankar Lal Mukhopadhyay | ||
| 1967 | S.N. Mukherjee | ||
| 1969 | Patit Paban Pathak | Communist Party of India | |
| 1971 | |||
| 1972 | Bhabani Shankar Mukherjee | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | Patit Paban Pathak | Communist Party of India | |
| 1982 | |||
| 1987 | Supriyo Basu | Indian National Congress | |
| 1991 | Patit Paban Pathak | Communist Party of India | |
| 1996 | Kanika Ganguly | ||
| 2001 | |||
| 2006 | |||
| 2011 | Sultan Singh | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2016 | Baishali Dalmiya | ||
| 2021 | Dr. Rana Chatterjee | ||
| 2026 | Sanjay Kumar Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
Election results[edit | edit source]
2026[edit | edit source]
In the 2026 election, Sanjay Kumar Singh of Bharatiya Janata Party defeated his nearest rival Kailash Kumar Mishra of Trinamool Congress.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Sanjay Kumar Singh | 57,639 | 48.91 |  +11.48
| |
| AITC | Kailash Kumar Mishra | 45,642 | 38.73 |  −3.65
| |
| CPI(M) | Sankar Maitra | 11,284 | 9.58 | −7.93
| |
| INC | Priyanka Choudhury | 1,283 | 1.09 | Template:New | |
| Independent | Rupali Sarkar | 212 | 0.18 | Template:New | |
| SUCI(C) | Putul Chowdhury | 157 | 0.13 | Template:New | |
| Independent | Sanjay Singh | 145 | 0.12 | Template:New | |
| Aam Janata Unnayan Party | Abdul Qadir Khan | 135 | 0.11 | Template:New | |
| Independent | Sanjay Singh | 132 | 0.11 | Template:New | |
| Independent | Pratap Goswami | 98 | 0.08 | Template:New | |
| Independent | Indranath Das | 54 | 0.05 | Template:New | |
| Independent | Nishu Kurmi | 46 | 0.04 | Template:New | |
| National Republic Party Of India | Kanchan Sonkar | 44 | 0.04 | Template:New | |
| Independent | Alok Pakhira | 43 | 0.04 | Template:New | |
| None of the above (India) | None of the above | 924 | 0.78 | −0.18
| |
| Turnout | 1,17,838 | 85.77 | 14.28
| ||
| BJP gain from AITC | Swing | +7.57 | |||
2021[edit | edit source]
In the 2021 election, Dr. Rana Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Baishali Dalmiya of BJP.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Rana Chatterjee | 53,347 | 42.38 | −4.59
| |
| BJP | Baishali Dalmiya | 47,110 | 37.43 | +25.9
| |
| CPI(M) | Dipsita Dhar | 22,040 | 17.51 | −15.74
| |
| None of the above (India) | None of the above | 1,205 | 0.96 | ||
| Turnout | 1,25,872 | 71.49 | 1.34
| ||
| AITC hold | Swing | ||||
2016[edit | edit source]
In the 2016 election, Baishali Dalmiya of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Saumendranath Bera of CPI(M).
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Baishali Dalmiya | 52,654 | 46.97 | −3.45
| |
| CPI(M) | Saumendranath Bera | 37,299 | 33.25 | −10.86
| |
| BJP | Kaushik Chakraborty | 17,418 | 15.53 | +12.97
| |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,598 | 1.42 | ||
| Turnout | 1,12,192 | 70.15 | −3.38
| ||
| AITC hold | Swing | ||||
2011[edit | edit source]
In the 2011 election, Sultan Singh of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kanika Ganguly of CPI(M).
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sultan Singh | 52,770 | 50.42 | +12.86# | |
| CPI(M) | Kanika Ganguly | 46,170 | 44.11 | −15.10 | |
| BJP | Bharat Bhushan Ojha | 2,677 | 2.56 | ||
| Independent | Suman Dolui | 947 | |||
| JD(U) | Saumadip Chatterjee | 458 | |||
| Independent | Shibashis Sarkar | 455 | |||
| Independent | Bholanath Pramanik | 266 | |||
| Independent | Subhasish Sarkar | 249 | |||
| Independent | Umed Singh Chaudhuri | 143 | |||
| Independent | Tripti Ghosh | 137 | |||
| Independent | Keya Ganguly | 135 | |||
| Independent | Jayanta Sarkar | 129 | |||
| Independent | Anjana Chowdhury | 129 | |||
| Turnout | 104,665 | 73.53 | |||
| AITC gain from CPI (M) | Swing | 27.96# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.
2006[edit | edit source]
In the 2006 election, Kanika Ganguly of CPI(M) defeated her nearest rival Rekha Raut of AITC.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Kanika Ganguly | 54,262 | 50.42 | ||
| AITC | Rekha Raut | 24,737 | 44.11 | ||
| INC | Tapan Ganguly | 9,690 | 2.56 | ||
| Independent | Sankar Kumar Das | 1203 | |||
| SDPI | Biswajit Mitra (Kajal) | 732 | |||
| Independent | Dev Kumar Sharma | 486 | |||
| Independent | Ashok Kumar Patra | 265 | |||
| Independent | Guru Chand Mondal | 262 | |||
| Turnout | 91,637 | 73.53 | |||
| CPI(M) hold | Swing | 27.96# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress+BJP vote percentages taken together in 2006.
2001[edit | edit source]
In the 2001 election, Kanika Ganguly of CPI(M) defeated her nearest rival Supriyo Basu of INC.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Kanika Ganguly | 92,876 | 72.63% | ||
| INC | Supriyo Basu | 32,423 | 25.36% | ||
| NCP | Moushumi Chatterjee | 626 | 0.49% | ||
| Independent | Santosh Adhikary | 624 | 0.49% | ||
| Independent | Debala Das | 418 | 0.33% | ||
| Independent | Madan Mohan Das | 370 | 0.29% | ||
| Independent | Raj Kishor Prasad | 203 | 0.16% | ||
| Independent | Fakra Alam | 191 | 0.15% | ||
| Independent | Pradip Kumar Basak | 139 | 0.11% | ||
| Turnout | 1,27,870 | 78.24% | |||
| CPI(M) hold | Swing | 27.96# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress+Congress vote percentages taken together in 2001.
1977-2006[edit | edit source]
In the 2006,[4] 2001[6] and 1996[8] state assembly elections, Kanika Ganguly of CPI(M) won the Bally assembly seat defeating her nearest rivals, Rekha Raut of Trinamool Congress in 2006, Supriyo Basu of Congress in 2001 and Bani Kumar Singha of Congress in 1996. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Patit Paban Pathak of CPI(M) defeated Supriyo Basu of Congress in 1991.[9] Supriyo Basu of Congress defeated Patit Paban Pathak of CPI(M) in 1987.[10] Patit Paban Pathak defeated Bani Kumar Singha of Congress in 1982[11] and Ganesh Pathak of Congress in 1977.[12][13]
1951-1971[edit | edit source]
Bhabani Shankar Mukherjee of Congress won in 1972. Patit Paban Pathak of CPI(M) won in 1971[14] and 1969.[15] S.N.Mukherjee of Congress won in 1967.[16] Shankar Lal Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962.[17] Monilal Basu of Congress won in 1957.[16] In independent India's first election in 1951, Ratan Moni Chattopadhyay of Congress won the Bally seat.[18]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
- ↑ "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ↑ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Bally. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ↑ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2006". Bally. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ↑ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2001". Bally. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- ↑ "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ↑ "General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ↑ "General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ↑ "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ↑ "General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ↑ "161 - Bally Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
- ↑ "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No ?. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ↑ "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ↑ "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ↑ "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.