Alipurduars (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Alipurduars আলিপুরদুয়ার
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Alipurduars Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Alipurduars Alipurduars (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 26°30′N89°31′E / 26.500°N 89.517°E / 26.500; 89.517 Coordinates: 26°30′N89°31′E / 26.500°N 89.517°E / 26.500; 89.517
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Alipurduar
Constituency No	12
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	2 Alipurduars (ST)
Electorate (year)	201,029 (2011) [1] 236,134 (2016) [2] 260,652 (2021) [3]
Government
• Incumbent	Suman Kanjilal (Bharatiya Janata Party)

Alipurduars (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Alipurduar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 12 Alipurduars (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Alipurduar municipality, Alipurduar Railway Junction, Banchukamari, Chakowakheti, Mathura, Parorpar, Patlakhawa, Shalkumar I, Shalkumar II, Tapsikhata, Vivekananda II, Vivekananda I gram panchayats of Alipurduar I community development block, and Chaporerpar I, Chaporerpar II, and Tatpara II gram panchayats of Alipurduar II community development block. ^[4]

Alipurduars (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 2 Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency) (ST). ^[4]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Name of M.L.A.		Party Affiliation
1951	Pijush Kanti Mukherjee		Indian National Congress
1957
1962
1967	Nani Bhattacharya		Revolutionary Socialist Party
1969
1971	Narayan Bhattacharya		Indian National Congress
1972
1977	Nani Bhattacharya		Revolutionary Socialist Party
1982
1987
1991	Nirmal Das
1996
2001
2006
2011	Debaprasad Roy		Indian National Congress
2016	Sourav Chakraborty		All India Trinamool Congress
2021	Suman Kanjilal		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

Source: ^[5]

1951–1972

Narayan Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Nani Bhattacharya of RSP won in 1969 and 1967. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962 and 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, it was a joint seat. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee and Dhirandra Brahma Mandal, both of Congress, won.

1977-2006

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections, Nirmal Das of RSP defeated Sourav Chakraborty of Congress, Prasanta Narayan Majumdar of Trinamool Congress, Manindralal Rakshit of Congress and Biswa Ranjan Sarkar of Congress respectively. Nani Bhattacharya of RSP defeated Debabrata Chatterjee of Congress in 1987, Pallab Ghosh of Congress in 1982 and Narayan Bhattachary of Congress in 1977.

2011

In the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Debaprasad Roy of Congress defeated his nearest rival Kshiti Goswami of RSP.

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Alipurduars constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Debaprasad Roy	79,605	46.02	Winner
	RSP	Kshiti Goswami	72,822	42.10
	BJP	Manik Chandra Saha	8,238	4.76
	Independent	Santosh Kumar Balo	3,072	1.78
	JMM	Manohar Bhagat	1,864	1.08
	SUCI(C)	Abhijit Roy	1,508	0.87
	CPI(ML)L	Chanchal Kumar Das	1,438	0.83
	Independent	Parimal Roy	1,396	0.81
	Independent	Sanjit Das	1,301	0.75
	BSP	Mantu Barman	1,195	0.69
	Rashtriya Deshaj Party	Bishwanath Gop	530	0.31
Majority			6,783	3.92
Turnout			1,72,969	86.04
	INC gain from RSP		Swing

2016

In the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Sourav Chakraborty of TMC defeated his nearest rival Biswaranjan Sarkar of Congress.

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Alipurduars constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sourav Chakraborty	89,695	44.09	Winner
	INC	Biswaranjan Sarkar	77,737	38.21
	BJP	Kushal Chatterjee	20,098	9.88
	RSP	Nirmal Das	7,324	3.60
	SUCI(C)	Alokesh Das	2,308	1.13
	AMB	Dalendra Nath Ray	1,341	0.66
	Independent	Santosh Kumar Balo	989	0.49
	BSP	Gouri Roy	974	0.48
	None of the Above	None of the Above	2,980	1.46
Majority			11,958	5.88
Turnout			2,03,446	86.16
	AITC gain from INC		Swing

2021

In the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Suman Kanjilal of BJP defeated his nearest rival Sourav Chakraborty of TMC.

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Alipurduars constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Suman Kanjilal	1,07,333	48.19	Winner
	AITC	Sourav Chakraborty	91,326	41.00
	INC	Debprosad Roy	15,651	7.03
	Independent	Nikhil Chandra Raibir	2,351	1.06
	Independent	Rinku Ghosh	1,393	0.63
	SUCI(C)	Pijush Kanti Sarma	1,111	0.5
	Independent	Ashim Roy	696	0.31
	Independent	Kushal Kumar Roy	620	0.28
	Independent	Abinash Das	270	0.12
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,981	0.89
Turnout			2,22,732
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

References

1. "West Bengal 2011". Election Commission of India. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
2. "West Bengal General Legislative Election 2016". Election Commission of India. 16 August 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
3. "West Bengal General Legislative Election 2021". Election Commission of India. 21 June 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
4. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
5. "Election Results - Full Statistical Reports". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 May 2021.