Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Behala Purba
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	153
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	23. Kolkata Dakshin
Electorate (year)	242,059 (2011)

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

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 153 Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 115, 116, 117, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 142, 143 and 144 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin. ^[1] Behala East was earlier part of Jadavpur. ^[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 East	Niranjan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1969		Niranjan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1971		Niranjan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
1972		Indrajit Majumdar	Indian National Congress [9]
1977		Niranjan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1982		Niranjan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
1987		Niranjan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
1991		Kumkum Chakraborti	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
1996		Kumkum Chakraborti	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
2001		Parash Dutta	All India Trinamool Congress [15]
2006		Kumkum Chakraborti	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [16]
Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Behala Purba
2011	Behala Purba	Sovan Chatterjee	All India Trinamool Congress [17]
2016	Behala Purba	Sovan Chatterjee	All India Trinamool Congress [18]
2021	Behala Purba	Ratna Chatterjee	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Behala Purba

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ratna Chatterjee	1,10,968	50.01
	BJP	Payel Sarkar	73,540	33.15
	CPI (M)	Samita Har Chowdhury	30,172	13.60
	NOTA	None of the above	2,835	1.28
	BSP	Rina Roy	1,175	0.53
Majority			37,428	17.08
Turnout			2,21,885	71.97
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Behala Purba

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sovan Chatterjee	96,621	47.33
	Independent	Ambikesh Mahapatra	72,327	35.43
	BJP	Chandra Bhan Singh	21,854	10.71
	SHS	Sumit Banerjee	3,649	1.79
	NOTA	None of the above	3,919	1.92
Majority			24,294	11.90
Turnout			2,05,294	73.83
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In 2011 Sovan Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kumkum Chakraborty of CPI(M),

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Behala Purba ^{[17] [19]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sovan Chatterjee	1,16,709	60.28	+14.33
	CPI (M)	Kumkum Chakraborty	68,536	35.40	-15.33
	BJP	A. Biswajit Naidu	3,692	1.91
	BSP	Indrajit Kumar Halder	1,170	0.60
	IND	Tarun Kanti Das	1,131	0.58
Majority			48,173	24.88
Turnout			1,94,208	79.79
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing	30.50#

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

1977–2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, ^[16] Kumkum Chakraborti of Communist Party of India (Marxist) won the Behala East assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Sovan Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Parash Dutta of Trinamool Congress defeated Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) in 2001. ^[15] Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) defeated Sonali Guha of Congress in 1996, ^[14] and Sailen Dasgupta of Congress in 1991. ^[13] Niranjan Mukherjeee of CPI(M) defeated Debashis Bhattacharya of Congress in 1987, ^[12] Balaram Goswami of Congress in 1982, ^[11] and Indrajit Mazumdar of Congress in 1977. ^{[10] [20]}

1951–1972

Indrajit Majumdar of Congress won the Behala East seat in 1972. ^[9] Niranjan 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.

References

Citations

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