Baranagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Baranagar
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Location in Kolkata
Coordinates: 22°38′0″N88°22′0″E / 22.63333°N 88.36667°E / 22.63333; 88.36667 Coordinates: 22°38′0″N88°22′0″E / 22.63333°N 88.36667°E / 22.63333; 88.36667
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Constituency No.	113
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	16. Dum Dum
Electorate (year)	208,417 (2019)

Baranagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 113 Baranagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Baranagar municipality and Ward Nos.17 to 20 of Kamarhati municipality. ^[1]

Baranagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 16 Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

   CPI      CPI (M)      RSP      AITC   

Election Year		Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation	Ref(s)
	1951	Baranagar	Jyoti Basu	Communist Party of India	[2]
	1957			Communist Party of India	[3]
	1962			Communist Party of India	[4]
	1967			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	[5]
	1969			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	[6]
	1971			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	[7]
	1972		Shiba Pada Bhattacharjee	Communist Party of India	[8]
	1977		Matish Roy	Revolutionary Socialist Party	[9]
	1982			Revolutionary Socialist Party	[10]
	1987			Revolutionary Socialist Party	[11]
	1991			Revolutionary Socialist Party	[12]
	1996		Amar Chaudhuri	Revolutionary Socialist Party	[13]
	2001			Revolutionary Socialist Party	[14]
	2006			Revolutionary Socialist Party	[15]
	2011		Tapas Roy	All India Trinamool Congress	[16]
	2016			All India Trinamool Congress	[17]
	2021			All India Trinamool Congress	[18]

Election results

2021

In the 2021 election, Tapas Roy of AITC defeated his nearest rival Parno Mitra of BJP.

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West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Baranagar constituency ^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Tapas Roy	85,615	53.42	+4.63
	BJP	Parno Mitra	50,468	31.49	+22.46
	INC	Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay	20,135	12.56
	NOTA	None of the above	2,378	1.48	-1.15
	Independent	Subrata De	630	0.39
	National Republic Party of India	Surajit Ghosh	538	0.34
	Independent	Shyamal Chandra Karmakar	495	0.31	-0.26
Turnout			160,259	76.85	-0.13
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Tapas Roy of AITC defeated his nearest rival Sukumar Ghosh of RSP.

West Bengal assembly elections,2016: Baranagar constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Tapas Roy	76,531	48.79	-11.79
	RSP	Sukumar Ghosh	60,431	38.52	+2.76
	BJP	Sunil Dey	14,172	9.03	+6.62
	None of the above	None of the above	4,129	2.63
	Independent	Shyamal Chandra Karmakar	901	0.57
	Rashtriya Janadhikar Suraksha Party	Prabir Chatterjee	704	0.45
Turnout			156,868	76.98	-2.81
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Tapas Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Sukumar Ghosh of RSP.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Baranagar constituency ^{[16] [19]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Tapas Roy	89,883	60.58	+15.09#
	RSP	Sukumar Ghosh	53,055	35.76	-15.78
	BJP	Bijoy Sankar Agarwal	3,581	2.41
	Independent	Sovan Bhattacharya	1,853
Turnout			148,372	79.79
	AITC gain from RSP		Swing	30.87 #

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

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections, Amar Chaudhuri of RSP won the Baranagar assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Atin Ghosh of Trinamool Congress in 2006 ^[15] and 2001, ^[14] and Silbhadra Dutta of Congress in 1996. ^[13] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Matish Roy of RSP defeated Ajoy Ghoshal of Congress in 1991, ^[12] Pranab Kanti Ghosh of Congress in 1987, ^[11] Sambhu Nath Dutta of Congress in 1982, ^[10] and Kumud Bhattacharjee of Congress in 1977. ^{[9] [20]}

1951-1972

Shiba Pada Bhattacharjee of CPI defeated Jyoti Basu of CPI(M) in 1972. ^[8] Jyoti Basu, representing CPI(M) from 1967 onwards and undivided CPI prior to that, won the Baranagar seat in 1971, ^[7] 1969, ^[6] 1967, ^[5] 1962, ^[4] 1957 ^[3] and in independent India's first election in 1951. ^[2]

References

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