Behala Purba Assembly constituency

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Behala Purba
Constituency No. 153 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Behala Purba Assembly constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Behala Purba Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State West Bengal
District South 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency Kolkata Dakshin
Established1951
Total electors308,157
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year 2021

Behala Purba Assembly constituency (earlier known as Behala East Assembly constituency) is a Legislative Assembly constituency of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Contents

Overview

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Behala Purba Assembly constituency is composed of the following:

Behala Purba Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency). [1] [2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearNameParty
Behala
1952 Biren Roy All India Forward Bloc
1957 Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay Communist Party of India
1962
Behala East
1967 Niranjan Mukherjee Communist Party of India
1969
1971
1972 Indrajit Majumdar Indian National Congress
1977 Niranjan Mukherjee Communist Party of India
1982
1987
1991 Kumkum Chakraborti
1996
2001 Parash Dutta All India Trinamool Congress
2006 Kumkum Chakraborti Communist Party of India
Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Behala Purba
2011 Sovan Chatterjee All India Trinamool Congress
2016
2021 Ratna Chatterjee

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Behala Purba
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Ratna Chatterjee 110,968 50.01
BJP Payel Sarkar 73,54033.15
CPI(M) Samita Har Chowdhury30,17213.60
None of the Above None of the above2,8351.28
BSP Rina Roy1,1750.53
Majority 37,42817.08
Turnout 2,21,88571.97
AITC hold Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Behala Purba
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Sovan Chatterjee 96,62147.33
Independent Ambikesh Mahapatra 72,32735.43
BJP Chandra Bhan Singh21,85410.71
SS Sumit Banerjee3,6491.79
None of the Above None of the above3,9191.92
Majority 24,29411.90
Turnout 2,05,29473.83
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 [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Sovan Chatterjee 1,16,70960.28+14.33
CPI(M) Kumkum Chakraborty68,53635.40−15.33
BJP A. Biswajit Naidu3,6921.91
BSP Indrajit Kumar Halder1,1700.60
IND Tarun Kanti Das1,1310.58
Majority 48,17324.88
Turnout 1,94,20879.79
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, [5] 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. [6] Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) defeated Sonali Guha of Congress in 1996, [7] and Sailen Dasgupta of Congress in 1991. [8] Niranjan Mukherjeee of CPI(M) defeated Debashis Bhattacharya of Congress in 1987, [9] Balaram Goswami of Congress in 1982, [10] and Indrajit Mazumdar of Congress in 1977. [11] [12]

1952–1972

Indrajit Majumdar of Congress won the Behala East seat in 1972. [13] Niranjan Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971, [14] 1969 [15] and 1967. [16] Prior to that Behala was a single seat. Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay of CPI won the Behala seat in 1962 [17] and 1957. [18] In independent India's first election in 1952, [19] Biren Roy of Forward Bloc (RG) won the Behala seat.

References

Notes

    Citations

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    2. "Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha" (PDF). Volume III Details For Assembly Segments of Parliamentary Constituencies. Election Commission of India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 October 2010. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
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    4. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Behala Purba. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
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    7. "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
    8. "General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
    9. "General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
    10. "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
    11. "General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
    12. "112 – Behala East Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
    13. "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
    14. "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
    15. "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
    16. "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
    17. "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
    18. "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
    19. "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.