Chowrangee (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Chowrangee (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Coordinates: 22°32′42″N 88°20′53″E | |
Country | India |
State | West Bengal |
District | Kolkata |
Constituency No | 162 |
Type | Open |
Lok Sabha constituency | 24. Kolkata Uttar |
Electoral system | First past the post |
Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 162 Chowranghee (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 and 62 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.[1]
Chowranghee (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 24 Kolkata Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency).[1] Prior to the 2009 Indian general election it was part of Calcutta South (Lok Sabha constituency).[2]
Members of Legislative Assembly
Election Year | Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation |
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1951 | Fort | Narendanath Sen | Indian National Congress[3] |
1957 | Maitreyee Bose | Indian National Congress[4] | |
Chowrangee | Bijoy Singh Nahar | Indian National Congress[4] | |
1962 | Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy | Indian National Congress[5] | |
1967 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | Indian National Congress[6] | |
1969 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | Indian National Congress[7] | |
1971 | Sankar Ghose | Indian National Congress[8] | |
1972 | Sankar Ghose | Indian National Congress[9] | |
1977 | Sandip Das | Janata Dal[10] | |
1982 | Sisir Bose | Indian National Congress[11] | |
1987 | Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay | Indian National Congress[12] | |
1991 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | Indian National Congress[13] | |
Bye Polls 1993 | Anil Chatterjee | CPIM Supported Independent[13] | |
1996 | Subrata Mukherjee | Indian National Congress[14] | |
2001 | Subrata Mukherjee | All India Trinamool Congress[15] | |
2006 | Subrata Bakshi | All India Trinamool Congress[16] | |
2011 | Sikha Mitra | All India Trinamool Congress[17] | |
2014 Bye Election | Nayana Bandopadhyay | All India Trinamool Congress[18] |
Election results
2016 Election
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Nayana Bandopadhyay | 55,119 | 48.20 | ||
INC | Somendra Nath Mitra | 41,903 | 36.60 | ||
BJP | Ritesh Tiwari | 15,707 | 13.70 | ||
SUCI(C) | Kartik Kumar Ray | 612 | 0.50 | N/A | |
Independent | Debajyoti Sengupta | 340 | 0.30 | N/A | |
Independent | Dipankar Dey | 254 | 0.20 | N/A | |
LJP | Shahzad Anwar | 251 | 0.20 | N/A | |
Independent | Anirban Mukherjee | 188 | 0.20 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,216 | 11.6 | |||
Turnout | 1,14,374 | 57.0 | |||
AITC hold | Swing |
2014 Bye-election
A bye-election was held on 13 September 2014 following the resignation of the sitting MLA, Shikha Choudhury (Mitra) who switched over from Trinamool Congress to Congress.[18]
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Nayana Bandopadhyay | 38,328 | 40.14 | -31.8 | |
BJP | Ritesh Tiwari | 23,984 | 25.12 | +20.8 | |
INC | Santosh Kumar Pathak | 23,317 | 24.42 | N/A | |
CPI (M) | Faiyaz Ahmed Khan | 8,890 | 9.31 | N/A | |
Independent | Sumanta Bhowmick | 268 | 0.28 | N/A | |
Independent | Anirban Mukherjee | 233 | 0.24 | N/A | |
Independent | Asish Agarwal | 161 | 0.17 | N/A | |
Independent | Mahesh Kumar Sharma | 159 | 0.17 | N/A | |
Independent | Ashim Mondal | 139 | 0.15 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,344 | 15.02 | |||
Turnout | 96,650 | 47.69 | -6.7 | ||
AITC hold | Swing | -26.3 |
2011
In the 2011 state assembly elections, Sikha Mitra of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Bimal Singh of RJD.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Sikha Mitra | 79,450 | 71.90 | 8.44 | |
RJD | Bimal Singh | 21,711 | 19.65 | -14.88 | |
BJP | Shahnawaz Ahmed | 4,799 | 4.34 | ||
AIMF | Abdul Wahab | 1,640 | 1.48 | ||
Independent | Bimal Saha | 792 | 0.72 | ||
Independent | Syed Md Seraj Nabi | 740 | 0.67 | ||
Independent | Lakshmi Ojha | 537 | 0.49 | ||
Jago Party | Susheel Kumar Pandey | 459 | 0.42 | ||
Independent | Kakoli Ojha | 378 | 0.34 | ||
Majority | 57,739 | 52.25 | |||
Turnout | 110,506 | 54.42 | |||
AITC hold | Swing | +11.7 |
Party | Seats won | Seat change |
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Trinamool Congress | 11 | 1 |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 0 | 6 |
Forward Bloc | 0 | 1 |
Rashtriya Janata Dal | 0 | 1 |
Note: New constituencies – 3, constituencies abolished – 10
2006
In the 2006 state assembly elections, Subrata Bakshi of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Narayan Jain of CPI(M).
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Subrata Bakshi | 23,000 | 38.20 | ||
CPI (M) | Narayan Jain | 20,790 | 34.50 | ||
INC | Subrata Mukherjee | 15,213 | 25.30 | ||
Independent | Raghunath Bhowmick | 437 | 0.70 | ||
Indian Justice Party | Karan Singh | 200 | 0.30 | ||
Independent | Pannalal Chowdhury | 198 | 0.30 | ||
Independent | Mohammed Mustafa | 138 | 0.20 | ||
Independent | Biswanath Potodeia | 136 | 0.42 | ||
Independent | Aditya Neogi | 113 | 0.20 | ||
Majority | 2,210 | 3.70 | |||
Turnout | 60,240 | (51.0%) | |||
AITC hold | Swing |
1977-2006
In the 2006 state assembly elections, Subrata Bakshi of Trinamool Congress won the Chowranghee assembly seat defeating Narayan Jain of CPI(M). Subrata Mukherjee of Trinamool Congress/Congress won the seat in 2001 and 1996, defeating Sahid Hossain of JD(S) and Paul Mantosh of JD respectively. In 1991, Siddhartha Shankar Ray of Congress defeated Ashok Mitra of CPI(M). In 1987, Debi Prasad Chattopdahyay of Congress defeated Badsa Alam of CPI(M). Sisir Bose of Congress defeated Zahurul Hoque of CPI(M) in 1982. Sandip Das of JD defeated Amal Datta of CPI(M) in 1977.[21]
1957-1972 Chowranghee
Sankar Ghose of Congress won the seat in 1972[9] and 1971.[8] Siddhartha Shankar Ray of Congress won the seat in 1969[7] and 1967.[6]Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy of Congress won the seat in 1962 defeating Biswanath Mukherjee of CPI.[5] Bijoy Singh Nahar won the seat in 1957.[4] In independent India's first general election in 1951,[3] there was no assembly constituency named Chowringhee.
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