Berhampore (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

In the 2016 election, Manoj Chakraborty of Congress defeated his nearest rival Sujata Banerjee of Trinamool Congress.

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Murshidabad district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Indian National Congress	14	8
Trinamool Congress	1	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	5	1
Revolutionary Socialist Party	1	4
Samajwadi Party	1	0
Forward bloc	0	1

Note: New constituencies – 4, constituencies abolished – 1 (See template talk page for details)

In the 2011 election, Manoj Chakraborty of Congress defeated his nearest rival Tarit Brahmachari of RSP.

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Murshidabad district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Indian National Congress	14	8
Trinamool Congress	1	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	5	1
Revolutionary Socialist Party	1	4
Samajwadi Party	1	0
Forward bloc	0	1

Note: New constituencies – 4, constituencies abolished – 1 (See template talk page for details)

In the 2006 election, Manoj Chakraborty of Congress MP of Baharampur, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Supported Independent defeated his nearest rival Amal Karmakar of RSP.

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Manoj Chakraborty (Independent) vote percentages taken together in 2006.

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.[20] He was subsequently taken back into the Congress.[21] 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][22]

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]