Ballygunge Assembly constituency

Ballygunge
Ballygunge
Constituency No. 161 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Kolkata
Lok Sabha constituency	Kolkata Dakshin
Established	1951
Total electors	247,623
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	18th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Sovandeb Chattopadhyay
Elected year	2026

Ballygunge Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview[edit | edit source]

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in West Bengal, Ballygunge Assembly constituency is composed of the following:

Ward Nos. 60, 61, 64, 65, 68, 69 and 85 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.^[1]

Borough	Ward No.	Councillor
VI	60	Kaiser Jamil	Trinamool Congress
VI	61	Manzar Iqbal
VII	64	Shammi Jahan Begum
VII	65	Nibedita Sharma
VIII	68	Sudarshana Mukherjee
	69	Dilip Bose
	85	Debasish Kumar

Ballygunge Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency.^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly[edit | edit source]

Year	Name
1952	Jogesh Chandra Gupta	Indian National Congress^[2]
1957	Jnendra Mazumdar	Communist Party of India^[3]
1962	Anil Moitra	Independent^[4]
1967	Jyotibhushan Bhattacharya	Communist Party of India^[5]^[6]
1969	Jyotibhushan Bhattacharya
1971	Subrata Mukherjee	Indian National Congress^[7]^[8]
1972	Subrata Mukherjee
1977	Sachin Sen	Communist Party of India^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]
1982
1987
1991
1992^	Rabin Deb
1996
2001
2006	Javed Ahmed Khan	Trinamool Congress^[15]^[16]
2011	Subrata Mukherjee
2016
2021
2022^	Babul Supriyo

^ by-poll

Election results[edit | edit source]

2026[edit | edit source]

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Ballygunge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sovandeb Chattopadhyay	108,481	64.81
	BJP	Shatorupa	47,005	28.08
	CPI(M)	Afreen Begum	7,185	4.21
	INC	Rohan Mitra	1,975	1.18	New
	None of the above (India)	None of the above	819	0.49
Majority
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing

2022 by-poll[edit | edit source]

2022 By-election: Ballygunge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Babul Supriyo Baral	51,199	49.69	−20.91%
	CPI(M)	Saira Shah Halim	30,971	30.06	+24.45%
	BJP	Keya Ghosh	13,220	12.83	−7.85%
	INC	Kamruzzaman Choudhary	5,218	5.06	New
	None of the above (India)	None of the Above	1,196	1.16	+0.3%
Majority			20,228	19.6%	−30.73%
Turnout			1,03,031	41%	−19%
	AITC hold		Swing	-21%

2021[edit | edit source]

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Ballygunge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Subrata Mukherjee	1,06,585	70.60	+25.07
	BJP	Adv. Lokenath Chatterjee	31,226	20.68	+7.28
	CPI(M)	Dr. Fuad Halim	8,474	5.61
	None of the above (India)	None of the Above	1,317	0.87
	BSP	Rajendra Ram Das	812	0.54
Majority			75,359	50.33	+40.44
Turnout			1,51,056	60.99	−2.87
	AITC hold		Swing

2016[edit | edit source]

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Ballygunge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Subrata Mukherjee	70,083	45.53	−15.12
	INC	Krishna Debnath	54,858	35.64	New
	BJP	Jiban Kumar Sen	20,622	13.40	+9.84
	None of the above (India)	None of the Above	3,433	2.23	New
	BSP	Rajendra Ram Das	1,538	1.00
Majority			15,225	9.89	−18.44
Turnout			1,53,941	63.86	−2.29
	AITC hold		Swing	-15.12

2011[edit | edit source]

Template:Election box win

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Ballygunge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Subrata Mukherjee	88,194	60.65
	CPI(M)	Dr. Fuad Halim	47,009	32.32
	BJP	Shatorupa	5,188	3.56
	IND	Moloy Prokash	1,538	1.06
Majority			41,185	28.33
Turnout			1,45,414	66.15

References[edit | edit source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
↑ "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. 178. Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
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[delimitation-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 February 2015.

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