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Saptagram (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Saptagram
আদি সপ্তগ্ৰাম Adi Saptagram | |
|---|---|
Vidhan Sabha constituency | |
| Formerly known as Bansberia Vidhan Sabha Constituency | |
  Saptagram Location in West Bengal  Saptagram Saptagram (India) | |
| Coordinates: 22°58′00″N 88°23′00″E / 22.96667°N 88.38333°ECoordinates: 22°58′00″N 88°23′00″E / 22.96667°N 88.38333°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Hooghly |
| Constituency No. | 193 |
| Type | Open |
| Lok Sabha constituency | 28. Hooghly |
| Electorate (year) | 186,561 (2011) |
| Government | |
| Area code | 033 |
Saptagram, formerly known as Bansberia Assembly Constituency (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: সপ্তগ্রাম বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Committee Bansberia (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from 2011 and a new constituency comes into being at Saptagram. 187 Bansberia Assembly Constituency changed to 193 Saptagram Assembly Constituency
Overview[edit]
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 193 Saptagram (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Bansberia Municipality, Aknna, Amnan, Goswami Malipara, Harit and Mahanad gram panchayats of Polba Dadpur community development block, and Mogra II and Saptagram gram panchayats of Chinsurah Mogra community development block.[1]
Saptagram (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
Members of Legislative Assembly[edit]
| Election Year |
Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Saptagram | Tapan Dasgupta | All India Trinamool Congress |
| 2016 | Saptagram | Tapan Dasgupta | All India Trinamool Congress |
| 2021 | Saptagram | Tapan Dasgupta | All India Trinamool Congress[2] |
Election results[edit]
2021[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Tapan Dasgupta | 93,328 | 48.56 | –0.37 | |
| BJP | Debabrata Biswas (Baban) | 83,556 | 43.48 | +34.33 | |
| INC | Pabitra Deb | 8,332 | 4.34 | –34.29 | |
| Majority | 9,772 | 5.08 | |||
| Turnout | 1,89,153 | 82.27 | –0.73 | ||
| AITC hold | Swing | ||||
2016[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Tapan Dasgupta | 88208 | 48.93% | ||
| INC | Dilip Nath | 69641 | 38.63% | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Sajal Adhikari | 1,536 | 0.85% | ||
| BJP | Sushant Sengupta | 16494 | 9.15% | ||
| JMM | Kashinath Murmu | 1,509 | 0.84% | ||
| Turnout | 1,80,394 | 83% | |||
| Majority | 18,567 | 10.30% | |||
| AITC hold | Swing | ||||
2011[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Tapan Dasgupta | 90,289 | 56.5 | ||
| CPI (M) | Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay | 59,421 | 37.2 | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Sadhan Mal | 3,612 | 2.3 | ||
| BJP | Kartick Chandra Paul | 3,559 | 2.2 | ||
| ABHM | Priyatosh Majumder | 1,866 | 1.2 | ||
| JDP | Meghnath Tudu | 1,040 | 0.7 | ||
| Turnout | 159,787 | 85.5 | |||
| Majority | 30,868 | 19.3 | |||
| AITC win (new seat) | |||||
.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken in 2006 in the now defunct Bansberia constituency.
See also[edit]
- Saptagram – once a major port, the chief city and sometimes capital of southern Bengal, in ancient and medieval times
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "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 2016". Saptagram. Empowering India. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ↑ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Saptagram. Empowering India. Retrieved 1 May 2011.