Baharampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Baharampur | |
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Vidhan Sabha constituency | |
![]() ![]() Baharampur Location in West Bengal | |
Coordinates: 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) | 206,158 (2011)[1] 236,629 (2016)[2] 260,667 (2021)[3] |
Baharampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (archaic spelling Berhampore) is an assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview[]
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.[4]
Baharampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 10 Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency).[4]
Members of Legislative Assembly[]
Election Year |
Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1951 | Berhampore | Bejoy Kumar Ghosh | Indian National Congress[5] | |
1957 | Bejoy Kumar Ghosh | Indian National Congress[6] | ||
1962 | Sanat Kumar Raha | Communist Party of India[7] | ||
1967 | S. Bhattacharya | Indian National Congress[8] | ||
1969 | Sanat Kumar Raha | Communist Party of India[9] | ||
1971 | Sankar Das Paul | Indian National Congress[10] | ||
1972 | Sankar Das Paul | Indian National Congress[11] | ||
1977 | Debabrata Bandopadhyay | Revolutionary Socialist Party[12] | ||
1982 | Debabrata Bandopadhyay | Revolutionary Socialist Party[13] | ||
1987 | Debabrata Bandopadhyay | Revolutionary Socialist Party[14] | ||
1991 | Sankar Das Paul | Indian National Congress[15] | ||
1996 | Maya Rani Paul | Indian National Congress[16] | ||
2001 | Maya Rani Paul | Indian National Congress[17] | ||
2006 | Manoj Chakraborty | Congress-Supported Independent[18] | ||
Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Baharampur | ||||
2011 | Baharampur | Manoj Chakraborty | Indian National Congress[19] | |
2016 | Baharampur | Manoj Chakraborty | Indian National Congress | |
2021 | Baharampur | Subrata Maitra Kanchan | Bharatiya Janata Party[20] |
Election results[]
2016[]
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[]
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# | |
RSP | 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 | ||
IPFB | 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[]
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 | ||
RSP | 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[]
In the 2006 state assembly elections[18] 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.[24] He was subsequently taken back into the Congress.[25] 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,[17] and Biswanath Banerjee of RSP in 1996.[16] Sankar Das Paul of Congress defeated Ipsita Gupta of RSP in 1991.[15] Debabrata Bandopadhyay of RSP defeated Sankar Das Paul of Congress in 1987[14] and 1982,[13] and Subrata Saha of Congress in 1977.[12][26]
1951–1972[]
Sankar Das Paul of Congress won in 1972[11] and 1971.[10] Sanat Kumar Raha of CPI won in 1969.[9] S. Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1967.[8] Sanat Kumar Raha of CPI won in 1962.[7] Bejoy Kumar Ghosh of Congress won in 1957[6] and in independent India's first election in 1951.[5]
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- Assembly constituencies of West Bengal
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