Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Behala Paschim
Vidhan Sabha Constituency
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Coordinates: 22°29′53″N88°18′39″E / 22.4981°N 88.3108°E / 22.4981; 88.3108 Coordinates: 22°29′53″N88°18′39″E / 22.4981°N 88.3108°E / 22.4981; 88.3108
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	South 24 Parganas
Constituency No	154
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	23. Kolkata Dakshin
Electorate (year)	259,713 (2011)

Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 154 Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: 118, 119, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 and 132 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. ^[1]

Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1] Behala West was earlier part of Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Behala	Biren Roy	All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar) [3]
1957		Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay	Communist Party of India [4]
1962		Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay	Communist Party of India [5]
1967	Behala West	Rabin Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1969		Rabin Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1971		Rabin Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
1972		Biswanath Chakraborty	Communist Party of India [9]
1977		Rabin Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1982		Rabin Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
1987		Rabin Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
1991		Nirmal Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
1996		Nirmal Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
2001		Partha Chatterjee	West Bengal Trinamool Congress [15]
2006		Partha Chatterjee	All India Trinamool Congress [16]
Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Behala Paschim
2011	Behala Paschim	Partha Chatterjee	All India Trinamool Congress [17]
2016
2021

Election results

2021

In the 2021 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress, defeated his nearest rival, Srabanti Chatterjee of BJP ^[18]

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Behala Paschim

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Partha Chatterjee	1,14,778	49.51	+2.61
	BJP	Srabanti Chatterjee	63,894	27.56	+19.36
	CPI (M)	Nihar Bhakta	47,509	20.49	-22.31
	NOTA	None of the above	2,433	1.05	-0.81
	IND	Sanat Kumar Bhakat	873	0.38
Majority			50,884	22.14	+17.85
Turnout			2,32,249	74.15
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

In the 2016 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kaustav Chatterjee of CPI(M).

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Behala Paschim ^{[17] [19]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Partha Chatterjee	1,02,114	46.90	-16.06
	CPI (M)	Kaustav Chatterjee	93,218	42.80	+8.90
	BJP	Harikrishna Dutta	17,962	8.20	+6.11
	NOTA	None of the above	4,137	1.86	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Mrityunjoy Roy	1,494	0.70	N/A
Majority			8,896	4.01	-24.96
Turnout			2,22,253	75.49	-1.90
	AITC hold		Swing

.# Swing calculated on LF+Congress vote percentages taken together in 2016.

2011

In the 2011 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Anupam Deb Sarkar of CPI(M).

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Behala Paschim ^{[17] [20]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Partha Chatterjee	1,27,870	62.96	10.57#
	CPI (M)	Anupam Debsarkar	68,849	33.90	-11.54
	BJP	Amalendu Roy Chowdhary	4,248	2.09
	IND	Jayanta Datta	2,140	1.05
Majority			59,021	29.06
Turnout			2,03,218	77.87
	AITC hold		Swing	22.11#

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

2006

In the 2006 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Niranjan Chatterjee of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Behala Paschim constituency ^{[17] [21]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Partha Chatterjee	82,259	48.80
	CPI (M)	Niranjan Chatterjee	76,532	45.40
	INC	Anjali Mukherjee	5,979	3.60
	Independent	Samir Kumar Halder	1,062	0.60
	Independent	Tuhin Sarkar	999	0.60
	Independent	Ashoke Kumar Halder	957	0.60
	Independent	Nirmal Mukherjee	648	0.40
Majority			5,727	3.4
Turnout			168,504	74.7
	AITC hold		Swing

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

1951-1972

Biswanath Chakraborty of CPI won in 1972. ^[9] Rabin Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971, ^[8] 1969 ^[7] and 1967. ^[6] Prior to that Behala was a single seat. Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay of CPI won the Behala seat in 1962 ^[5] and 1957. ^[4] In independent India's first election in 1951, ^[3] Biren Roy of Forward Bloc (RG) won the Behala seat.

1977-2006

In the 2006 and 2001 Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress won the Behala West assembly constituency defeating his nearest rivals Niranjan Mukherjee of CPI(M) in 2006 ^[16] and Nirmal Mukherjee of CPI(M) in 2001. ^[15] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Nirmal Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Kumud Bhattacharya of Congress in 1996, ^[14] and Lakshmi Kanta Basu of Congress in 1991. ^[13] Rabin Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Lakshmi Kanta Basu of Congress in 1987, ^[12] Aruna Ghosh Dastidar of Congress in 1982 ^[11] and Subodh Chandra Das of Congress in 1977. ^{[10] [22]}

References

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