Basirhat Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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Basirhat Uttar
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Basirhat Uttar Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Basirhat Uttar Basirhat Uttar (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 22°40′00″N88°53′00″E / 22.66667°N 88.88333°E / 22.66667; 88.88333 Coordinates: 22°40′00″N88°53′00″E / 22.66667°N 88.88333°E / 22.66667; 88.88333
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Constituency No	125
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	Basirhat
Electorate (year)	192,587 (2011)

Basirhat Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Prior to 2011 Basirhat had one assembly constituency. From 2011 it will have two constituencies Basirhat Dakshin and Basirhat Uttar Vidhan Sabha constituencies. Hasnabad (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from 2011.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, 125 Basirhat Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Basirhat II community development block, and Amlani, Bhebia, Makhal Gachha, Murarisha gram panchayats of Hasnabad community development block. ^[1]

Basirhat Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of 18. Basirhat (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Basirhat	Profulla Nath Banerjee	Indian National Congress [2]
1957		Profulla Nath Banerjee	Indian National Congress [3]
1962		Bijesh Chandra Sen	Indian National Congress [4]
1967		A.B.Bandopadhyay	Communist Party of India [5]
1969		A.B.Bandopadhyay	Communist Party of India [6]
1971		Lalit Kumar Ghosh	Indian National Congress [7]
1972		Lalit Kumar Ghosh	Indian National Congress [8]
1977		Narayan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [9]
1982		Narayan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1987		Narayan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
1991		Narayan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
1996		Narayan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
2001		Narayan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
2006		Narayan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [15]
2011	Basirhat Uttar	Mostafa Bin Qaseem	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [16]
2011 By-election		ATM Abdullah	All India Trinamool Congress [17]
2016		Rafikul Islam Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021		Rafikul Islam Mondal	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Basirhat Uttar constituency ^{[16] [18]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	Rafikul Islam Mondal	97,828	45.74	+8.85
	AITC	ATM Abdullah	97,336	45,51	-11.44
	BJP	Tarafan Gazi	13,072	6.11	+1.62
	BSP	Abul Kasem Dhali	3,006	1.41
	NOTA	None of the above	2,636	1.24	+1.24
Turnout			2,13,885	89.62
	CPI (M) gain from AITC		Swing

The percentage changes of the 2016 election is calculated based upon the 2011 Bypoll.

2011

A by-election in 2011 was necessitated by the death of Mostafa bin Kassem, the CPI(M) MLA from Basirhat Uttar, who was found dead outside Kyd street MLA's Hostel on 29 May 2011. ^[19]

West Bengal state assembly bye election, 2011: Basirhat Uttar constituency ^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	ATM Abdullah	87,899	56.95	+14.12
	CPI (M)	Subid Ali Gazi	56,948	36.89	-8.30
	BJP	Subodh Kumar Chakraborty	6,938	4.49	-1.08
	Independent	Ajit Pramanick	2,964
Turnout			154,339	80.35	-6.49
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

The percentage changes of the Bypoll is calculated from the 2011 assembly election.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Basirhat Uttar constituency ^{[16] [20]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	Mostafa Bin Qaseem	75,576	45.19
	AITC	Sardar Amzad Ali	71,632	42.83
	BJP	Somen Mandal	9,316	5.57
	People’s Democratic Conference of India	Rafikul Mandal	7,327
	BSP	Prosanta Biswas	1,829
	All india Minorities Front	Anwar Hossain Mollah	1,569
Turnout			167,248	86.84
	CPI (M) win (new seat)

As per 2011 census the total population of basirhat uttar is 338937,Hindu 115986,Muslim 222264,Other 687.Hindu 34.22%,Muslim 65.58%,Other 0.20%.

1977-2006 Basirhat

During the period Narayan Mukherjee of CPI(M) won seven elections in a row from 95 Basirhat assembly constituency, defeating his nearest rivals Asit Majumdar of INC in 2006, ^[15] Souren Sen of Trinamool Congress in 2001, ^[14] Asit Majumdar of Congress in 1996, ^[13] Dilip Mazumdar of Congress in 1991 ^[12] and 1987, ^[11] and Debi Prasad Nanda of Congress in 1982 ^[10] and 1977. ^{[9] [21]}

1951-1972 Basirhat

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Lalit Kumar Ghosh of Congress won in 1972 ^[8] and 1971. ^[7] A.B.Bandopadhyay of CPI won in 1969 ^[6] and 1967. ^[5] Bijesh Chandra Sen of Congress won in 1962. ^[4] Profulla Nath Banerjee of Congress won in 1957 ^[3] and in independent India's first election in 1951. ^[2]

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