Behala Purba

In 2011 Sovan Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kumkum Chakraborty of CPI(M),

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Dakshin 24 Parganas district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Trinamool Congress	26	19
Indian National Congress	0	2
SUCI(C)	1	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	3	15
Revolutionary Socialist Party	1	2

Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 8 (See template talk page for details)

In the 2006 state assembly elections,[16] Kumkum Chakraborti of Communist Party of India (Marxist) won the Behala East assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Sovan Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Parash Dutta of Trinamool Congress defeated Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) in 2001.[15] Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) defeated Sonali Guha of Congress in 1996,[14] and Sailen Dasgupta of Congress in 1991.[13] Niranjan Mukherjeee of CPI(M) defeated Debashis Bhattacharya of Congress in 1987,[12] Balaram Goswami of Congress in 1982,[11] and Indrajit Mazumdar of Congress in 1977.[10][20]

Indrajit Majumdar of Congress won the Behala East seat in 1972.[9] Niranjan Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971,[8] 1969[7] and 1967.[6] Prior to that Behala was a single seat. Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay of CPI won the Behala seat in 1962[5] and 1957.[4] In independent India's first election in 1951,[3] Biren Roy of Forward Bloc (RG) won the Behala seat.