Amta Assembly constituency

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Amta
Constituency No. 181 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Amta Assembly constituency
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Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State West Bengal
District Howrah
Lok Sabha constituency Uluberia
Established1951
Total electors206,691
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year 2021

Amta Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Contents

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 181, Amta Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Amta II community development block, and Bainan, Baksirhat, Kalyanpur and Sabsit gram panchayats of Bagnan I community development block. [1] Amta Assembly constituency is part of No. 26 Uluberia (Lok Sabha constituency). [1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearNameParty
1951 Arabinda Roy
(Amta South)
Indian National Congress
Tarapada Pramanick
(Amta Central)
Alamohan Das
(Amta North)
Independent politician
1957 Gobinda Charan Maji
(Amta East)
Praja Socialist Party
Arabinda Roy
(Amta West)
Indian National Congress
1962 Tarapada Pramanick
1967 Nitai Bhandari Communist Party of India
1969
1971 Bapindra Koley
1972 Afiabuddin Mondal Indian National Congress
1977 Barindra Nath Koley Communist Party of India
1982
1987
1991
1996 Pratyush Mukherjee
2001
2006
2011 Asit Mitra Indian National Congress
2016
2021 Sukanta Kumar Paul Trinamool Congress

Election results

1951–1972

Aftabuddin Mondal of Congress won in 1972. [2] Barindranath Koley of CPI(M) won in 1971. [3] Nitai Bhandari of CPI(M) won in 1969 [4] and 1967. [5] Tarapada Pramanick of Congress won in 1962. [6] In 1957 [7] Amta had two seats. Gobinda Charan Maji of PSP won the Amta East seat. Arabinda Roy of Congress won the Amta West seat. In 1951 [8] Amta had three seats. Arabinda Roy of Congress won the Amta South seat. Tarapada Pramanick of Congress won the Amta Central seat. Alamohan Das, Independent, won the Amta North seat.

1977–2006

In the 2006, 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections, Pratyush Mukherjee of CPI(M) won the Amta assembly seat, defeating his nearest rivals Ashok Maji of Trinamool Congress in 2006 [9] and 2001, [10] and Prasun Bakuly of Congress in 1996. [11] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Barindranath Koley of CPI(M) defeated Aftabuddin Mondal of Congress in 1991 [12] and 1987, [13] Ainuddin Sk. of Congress in 1982, [14] and Aftabuddin Mondal of Congress in 1977. [15] [16]

2011

In the 2011 election, Asit Mitra of Congress defeated his nearest rival Rabindra Nath Mitra of CPI(M).

2011 West Bengal state assembly election: Amta constituency [17] [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Asit Mitra 88,26451.82+6.58#
CPI(M) Rabindra Nath Mitra74,54543.76−8.17
BJP Sanat Hazra3,7812.22
IndependentRatan Chandra Malick1,757
IndependentAsit Sengupta1,155
IndependentDilip Kumar Hait8350.49
Turnout 170,33782.41
INC gain from CPI(M) Swing 14.57#

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

2016

In the 2016 election, Asit Mitra of Indian National Congress defeated his nearest rival Tushar Kanti Sil of Trinamool Congress.

2016 West Bengal state assembly election: Amta constituency
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Asit Mitra 89,14947.05−4.77
AITC Tushar Kanti Sil84,64544.67
BJP Suman Sarkar11,0455.83+3.61
NOTA None of the above 1,7940.95
IndependentRatan Chandra Malick1,3790.73
SUCI(C) Sanjib Santra7890.42
IndependentDilip Kumar Hait6740.36−0.13
Turnout 189,47579.86−2.55
INC hold Swing

2021

In the 2021 election, Sukanta Kumar Paul of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Debtanu Bhattacharjee of Bharatiya Janata Party.

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Amta constituency
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Sukanta Kumar Paul 102,445 49.06 +2.0
BJP Debtanu Bhattacharjee7624036.51+30.68
INC Asit Mitra2510912.02−32.65
NOTA None of the above 13020.62
IndependentRatan Chandra Malick1,3790.73
SUCI(C) Sanjib Santra11390.55
IndependentDilip Kumar Hait6740.36−0.13
Turnout 20881079.86−2.55
AITC gain from INC Swing

References

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