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Howrah Uttar
Constituency No. 170 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictHowrah
Lok Sabha constituencyHowrah
Established1951
Total electors171,318
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyTrinamool Congress
Elected year2021

Howrah Uttar 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. 170 Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 7 and 10 to 16 of Howrah Municipal Corporation.[1]

Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly[edit | edit source]

Year Name Party
Howrah North
1951 Biren Banerjee Communist Party of India
1957 Samar Mukhopadhyay
1962 Saila Kumar Mukherjee Indian National Congress
1967
1969 Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee
1971 Shankar Lal Mukherjee
1972
1977 Chittabrata Majumdar Communist Party of India
1982 Ashok Ghosh Indian National Congress
1987
1991 Lagan Deo Singh Communist Party of India
1996
2001
2006
Constituency renamed as Howrah Uttar from 2011
2011 Ashok Ghosh All India Trinamool Congress
2016 Laxmi Ratan Shukla
2021 Gautam Chowdhuri
2026 Umesh Rai

Election results[edit | edit source]

2026[edit | edit source]

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Uttar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Umesh Rai 67,539 50.76 Increase6.64
AITC Gautam Chowdhuri 56,289 42.3 Decrease5.51
CPI(M) Gautam Roy 5,997 4.51
INC Om Prakash Jaiswal 920 0.69
None of the above (India) None of the above 848 0.69
Majority 11,250
Turnout 1,32,347
BJP gain from TMC Swing

2021[edit | edit source]

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Uttar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Gautam Chowdhuri 71,575 47.81 Increase1.41
BJP Umesh Rai 66,053 44.12 Increase20.62
CPI(M) Pawan Singh 8,133 5.43
None of the above (India) None of the above 1,670 1.12 Increase0.33
IND Subhash Kumar Singhi 911 0.61
Majority 5,522 3.69
Turnout 1,49,762 68.53
AITC hold Swing Increase1.41

2016[edit | edit source]

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Uttar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Laxmi Ratan Shukla 61,917 46.4 Decrease 2.85
INC Santosh Kumar Pathak 34,958 26.2
BJP Roopa Ganguly 31,416 23.5 Increase 12.28
IND Subodh Pathak 1,146 0.9
None of the above (India) None of the above 1,070 0.79
Majority 26,959 20.02
Turnout 1,34,764 67.98
AITC hold Swing Decrease 2.85

2011[edit | edit source]

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Uttar[2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Ashoke Ghosh 61,468 49.25 Increase 7.29
CPI(M) Nemai Samanta 41,858 33.54 Decrease 20.46
BJP Umesh Rai 16,494 13.22
IND Hitendranath Mondal 1,514 1.21
BSP Siddhartha Sarkar 761 0.61
Majority 19,610 15.71
Turnout 1,24,865 72.52
AITC gain from CPI (M) Swing Increase 27.75

1977–2006[edit | edit source]

In the 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections Lagan Deo Singh of CPI(M) won the Howrah North assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Bani Singha of Trinamool Congress in 2006, Asok Ghosh of Congress in the three other years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Asok Ghosh of Congress defeated Lagan Deo Singh of CPI(M) in 1987 and Chittabrata Majumdar of CPI(M) in 1982. Chittabrata Mazumdar of CPI(M) defeated Supriya Basu of Congress in 1977.[4]

1967–1972[edit | edit source]

Shankarlal Mukherjee of Congress won in 1972[5] and 1971.[6] Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee of Congress won in 1969.[7] S.K.Mukherjee of Congress won in 1967.[8]

1951–1962[edit | edit source]

During the period Howrah had four Vidhan Sabha constituencies.

Howrah North[edit | edit source]

Saila Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962.[9] Samar Mukhopadhyay of CPI won in 1957.[10] Biren Banerjee of CPI won in 1951.[11]

Howrah West[edit | edit source]

Anadi Dass, Independent, won in 1962.[9] Bankim Chandra Kar of Congress won in 1957[10] and 1951.[11]

Howrah East[edit | edit source]

Bejoy Bhattacharyya of Congress won in 1962.[9] Beni Charan Dutta of Congress won in 1957.[10] Saila Kumar Mukhopdhyay of Congress won in 1951.[11]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  2. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  3. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Howrah Uttar. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 19 May 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  4. "162 - Howrah North Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
  5. "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  6. "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No ?. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  7. "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  8. "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.