Berhampore (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Baharampur | |
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Vidhan Sabha constituency | |
Coordinates: 24°06′N 88°15′E / 24.100°N 88.250°ECoordinates: 24°06′N 88°15′E / 24.100°N 88.250°E | |
Country | |
State | West Bengal |
District | Murshidabad |
Constituency No | 72 |
Type | Open |
Lok Sabha constituency | 10. Baharampur |
Electorate (year) | 205,633 (2011) |
Baharampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (archaic spelling Berhampore) is an assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview[edit]
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 72 Baharampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Baharampur municipality, and Bhakuri I, Daulatabad, Gurudaspur, Hatinagar and Manindranagar gram panchayats of Berhampore community development block.[1]
Baharampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 10 Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
Members of Legislative Assembly[edit]
Election Year |
Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1951 | Berhampore | Bejoy Kumar Ghosh | Indian National Congress[2] | |
1957 | Bejoy Kumar Ghosh | Indian National Congress[3] | ||
1962 | Sanat Kumar Raha | Communist Party of India[4] | ||
1967 | S. Bhattacharya | Indian National Congress[5] | ||
1969 | Sanat Kumar Raha | Communist Party of India[6] | ||
1971 | Sankar Das Paul | Indian National Congress[7] | ||
1972 | Sankar Das Paul | Indian National Congress[8] | ||
1977 | Debabrata Bandopadhyay | Revolutionary Socialist Party[9] | ||
1982 | Debabrata Bandopadhyay | Revolutionary Socialist Party[10] | ||
1987 | Debabrata Bandopadhyay | Revolutionary Socialist Party[11] | ||
1991 | Sankar Das Paul | Indian National Congress[12] | ||
1996 | Maya Rani Paul | Indian National Congress[13] | ||
2001 | Maya Rani Paul | Indian National Congress[14] | ||
2006 | Manoj Chakraborty | Congress-Supported Independent[15] | ||
Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Baharampur | ||||
2011 | Baharampur | Manoj Chakraborty | Indian National Congress[16] | |
2016 | Baharampur | Manoj Chakraborty | Indian National Congress | |
2021 | Baharampur | Subrata Maitra Kanchan | Bharatiya Janata Party[17] |
Election results[edit]
2016[edit]
In the 2016 election, Manoj Chakraborty of Congress defeated his nearest rival Sujata Banerjee of Trinamool Congress.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Manoj Chakraborty | 127,762 | 69.20% | ||
AITC | Dr. Sujata Banerjee | 35,489 | 19.20% | ||
BJP | Mala Banerjee | 18,805 | 10.20% | ||
SUCI(C) | Kousik Chatterjee | 1,727 | 0.90% | ||
Independent | Sujit Kumar Das | 881 | 0.50% | ||
Majority | 92,273 | 50.00% | |||
Turnout | 1,84,664 | 80.20% | |||
INC hold | Swing | +3.34# |
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.
2011[edit]
In the 2011 election, Manoj Chakraborty of Congress defeated his nearest rival Tarit Brahmachari of RSP.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Manoj Chakraborty | 91,578 | 54.90 | -4.52# | |
[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] | Tarit Brahmachari | 48,265 | 28.93 | -7.86 | |
BJP | Debasis Sarkar | 12,758 | 7.65 | ||
Independent | Debjani Saha | 8,162 | 4.89 | ||
SDPI | Tayebdul Islam | 3,787 | 2.30 | ||
style="background-color: Template:Indian People's Forward Bloc/meta/color; width: 5px;" | | [[Indian People's Forward Bloc|Template:Indian People's Forward Bloc/meta/shortname]] | Sujit Kumar Das | 1,331 | 0.80 | |
JD(U) | Sunil Kumar Mondal | 940 | 0.60 | ||
Majority | 43,313 | 26.0 | |||
Turnout | 166,821 | 81.13 | |||
INC hold | Swing | +3.34# |
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.
2006[edit]
In the 2006 election, Manoj Chakraborty of Congress MP of Baharampur, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Supported Independent defeated his nearest rival Amal Karmakar of RSP.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Manoj Chakraborty | 94,562 | 50.60 | ||
[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] | Amal Karmakar | 68,836 | 36.80 | ||
INC | Maya Rani Paul | 16,596 | 8.90 | ||
Independent | Apurba Banerjee | 2,834 | 1.50 | ||
Independent | Sunil Kumar Mandal | 2,737 | 1.50 | ||
Independent | Md. Hayatur Rahaman | 1,516 | 0.80 | ||
Turnout | 187,081 | 81.13 | |||
INC hold | Swing | +3.34# |
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Manoj Chakraborty (Independent) vote percentages taken together in 2006.
1977–2006[edit]
In the 2006 state assembly elections[15] Manoj Chakraborty, Independent, won the Berhampore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Amal Karmakar of RSP. Manoj Chakraborty, contesting as an independent, was a rebel congress candidate put up by Adhir Choudhury as a protest against the official Congress candidate Maya Rani Paul.[21] He was subsequently taken back into the Congress.[22] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Maya Rani Paul of Congress defeated Kartick Sahana of RSP in 2001,[14] and Biswanath Banerjee of RSP in 1996.[13] Sankar Das Paul of Congress defeated Ipsita Gupta of RSP in 1991.[12] Debabrata Bandopadhyay of RSP defeated Sankar Das Paul of Congress in 1987[11] and 1982,[10] and Subrata Saha of Congress in 1977.[9][23]
1951–1972[edit]
Sankar Das Paul of Congress won in 1972[8] and 1971.[7] Sanat Kumar Raha of CPI won in 1969.[6] S. Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1967.[5] Sanat Kumar Raha of CPI won in 1962.[4] Bejoy Kumar Ghosh of Congress won in 1957[3] and in independent India's first election in 1951.[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ "General Elections, India, 2021, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal". Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ↑ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Baharampur. Empowering India. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
- ↑ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Baharampur. Empowering India. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
- ↑ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2006". Baharampur. Empowering India. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
- ↑ "Adhir beats Cong at home". Calcutta, India: The Telegraph 12 May 2006. 12 May 2006. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
- ↑ Hussain, Alamgir (17 April 2011). "Didi turns up heat on dissidents". Calcutta, India: The Telegraph 17 April 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
- ↑ "63 - Berhampore Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 26 September 2010.