Asansol Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Asansol Uttar
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Asansol Uttar Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Asansol Uttar Asansol Uttar (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 23°41′N86°59′E / 23.683°N 86.983°E / 23.683; 86.983 Coordinates: 23°41′N86°59′E / 23.683°N 86.983°E / 23.683; 86.983
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Paschim Bardhaman
Constituency No.	281
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	40. Asansol
Electorate (year)	198,342(2011)

Asansol Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It covers most of the area earlier under Asansol constituency. There is another constituency named Asansol Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency).

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, there are two constituencies, namely Asansol Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and Asansol Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency). No. 281 Asansol Uttar covers ward nos. 1 to 8, 10 to 17, 19, 21 to 33 of Asansol municipal corporation. No. 280 Asansol Dakshin covers ward nos. 9, 18, 20, 34 to 50 of Asansol municipal corporation and Amrasota, Egra, Ballavpur, Jemari and Tirat gram panchayats of Raniganj community development block. ^[1]

Asansol Uttar and Asansol Dakshin assembly segments are part of No. 40 Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

The United News of India (UNI) has been candid about the second largest city and urban agglomeration in West Bengal (the area covered by the Asansol Lok Sabha Sabha constituency) after Kolkata that is a hub of coal mining and railway activity bordering Jharkhand. Asansol has seen, it writes, “a sustained hold over it by the CPI(M) since 1984. Before that it was a tale of fluctuating fortune for the CPI(M) and the Congress… However, as the green surge swept Bengal to demolish the red bastion in 2011 Assembly elections… Moreover, as the Left still remained cornered in state politics, their neutralised voters are increasingly migrating to the BJP for a viable alternative.” ^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Asansol	Atindra Nath Bose	Forward Bloc (Ruikar) [3]
1957		Shibdas Ghatak	Indian National Congress [4]
1962		Bijoy Pal	Communist Party of India [5]
1967		Dr. Gopika Ranjan Mitra	Indian National Congress [6]
1969		Lokesh Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1971		Lokesh Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
1972		Niranjan Dihidar	Communist Party of India [9]
1977		Haradhan Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1982		Bijoy Pal	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
1987		Prabuddha Laha	Indian National Congress [12]
1991		Goutam Roy Choudhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
1996		Tapas Banerjee	Indian National Congress [14]
2001		Kalyan Banerjee	Trinamool Congress [15]
2006		Prativa Ranjan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [16]
2011	Asansol Uttar	Moloy Ghatak	Trinamool Congress [17]
2016		Moloy Ghatak	Trinamool Congress [18]
2021		Moloy Ghatak	Trinamool Congress [19]

Election results

Asansol constituency 1951-1972

In 1972, Niranjan Dihidar of Communist Party of India won the seat. In 1969 and 1971, Dr. Lokesh Ghosh of CPI (M) won the seat. In 1967, Gopika Ranjan Mitra of Congress won the seat. In 1962, Bijoy Pal of CPI won. In 1957, it was won by Shibdas Ghatak of Congress. In independent India's first election in 1951, Atindra Nath Bose of Forward Bloc (Ruikar) won the seat defeating Yogendranath Roy of Congress. ^[20]

Asansol constituency 1977-2006

In 2006 state assembly elections. Prativa Ranjan Mukherjee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI (M)) won the Asansol seat defeating his nearest rival Kalyan Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, Kalyan Banerjee had defeated Goutam Roy Choudhuri of CPI (M). In 1996, Tapas Banerjee of Congress had defeated Goutam Roy Choudhury. In 1991, Goutam Roy Choudhury had won the seat defeating Bajrangi Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In 1987, Prabuddha Laha of Congress had defeated Goutam Roy Choudhury. In 1982, Bejoy Pal of CPI (M) defeated his nearest rival Sukumar Banerjee of Congress. In 1977, Haradhan Roy of CPI (M) defeated Gopika Ranjan Mitra of Congress. ^[21]

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Asansol Uttar ^{[22] [23] [24]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Moloy Ghatak	96,011	62.14	+11.26#
	CPI (M)	Ranu Roychowdhury	48,218	31.21	-17.91
	BJP	Madan Mohan Choubey	6,750	4.37
	JD(U)	Bijay Prasad Singh	3,536	2.29
Majority			47,793	30.93
Turnout			1,54,631	76.86
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing	+29.17

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

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Asansol Uttar ^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Moloy Ghatak	84,715	46.12	-16.02
	BJP	Nirmal Karmakar	60,818	33.11	+28.74
	INC	Indrani Mishra	31,892	17.36	-13.85#
	BMP	Dipali Ruidas	2,178	1.18	N/A
	ABHM	Shyama Charan Dutta	1,268	0.69	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	2,795	1.52	N/A
Majority			23,897	13.01	-17.92
Turnout			1,83,844	73.68
	AITC hold		Swing	-22.38

1. #Joint candidate of CPI(M), CPI, JD(U), RJD, NCP and INC. As the CPI(M) contested the previous election, the performance of this candidate is based on the previous election

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Asansol Uttar ^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Moloy Ghatak	1,00,931	52.32	+19.14
	BJP	Krishnendu Mukherjee	79,821	41.38	+31.24
	ISF	Mohammad Mustaquim	4,471	2.32	-85.98
	IND	Sunil Thakur	1,673	0.87
	AIMIM	Danish Aziz	1,514	0.78
Majority			21,110	11.12
Turnout			1,93,167	70.04
	AITC hold		Swing

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