Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Bhabanipur
Vidhan Sabha Constituency
Mamata Banerjee, current MLA and incumbent Chief minister of West Bengal
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Coordinates: 22°31′48″N88°20′35″E / 22.53000°N 88.34306°E / 22.53000; 88.34306 Coordinates: 22°31′48″N88°20′35″E / 22.53000°N 88.34306°E / 22.53000; 88.34306
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Kolkata
Constituency No	159
Lok Sabha constituency	23. Kolkata Dakshin
Electoral system	First past the post
Government
•  Incumbent MLA	Mamata Banerjee
• Political Party	AITC

Bhabanipur Vidhan Sabha constituency, also spelt Bhawanipur or Bhowanipore, is an assembly constituency in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 159 Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 63, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77 and 82 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. ^[1]

Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
1952	Mira Dutta Gupta		Indian National Congress [2] [3]
1957	Siddhartha Shankar Ray
1962			Independent [4]
1967	Beva Mitra		Indian National Congress [5]
1969	Sadhan Gupta		Communist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1971	Rathin Talukdar		Indian National Congress [7] [8]
1972
Constituency did not exist
2011	Subrata Bakshi		All India Trinamool Congress
2011 By-election	Mamata Banerjee
2016
2021	Sovandeb Chattopadhyay
2021 By-election	Mamata Banerjee

Election results

2021 Bye-Election

Bye-election, 2021: Bhabanipur ^{[9] [10] [11] [12] [13]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee (CM Candidate)	85,263	71.90	+14.19
	BJP	Priyanka Tibrewal	26,428	22.29	-12.87
	CPI(M)	Shrijeeb Biswas	4,226	3.56
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,453	1.23
Majority			58,835	49.61
Turnout			1,18,611	57.43
	AITC hold		Swing	+14.19

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sovandeb Chatterjee	73,505	57.71	+10.04
	BJP	Rudranil Ghosh	44,786	35.16	+16.03
	INC	Md. Shadab Khan	5,211	4.09	-25.17
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,570	1.23	-0.56
	BSP	Anita Rajwar	564	0.44	+0.17
Majority			28,719	22.55
Turnout			1,27,536	61.79
	AITC hold		Swing	+10.04

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee	65,520	47.67	-29.79
	INC	Deepa Dasmunshi	40,219	29.26	New
	BJP	Chandra Kumar Bose	26,299	19.13	New
	None of the Above	None of the Above	2,461	1.79	New
	BSP	Nirmal Kanti Samaddar [14]	669	0.27
Majority			25,301	18.41	-38.62
Turnout			1,37,475	66.83	+22.11
	AITC hold		Swing	-29.79

Bye-election, 2011

The bypoll to the Bhowanipore seat was necessitated after sitting MLA of Trinamool Congress Subrata Bakshi resigned to make way for the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to contest. She had not contested the state assembly elections earlier. She had to become a member of the state assembly within six months of her assuming office as Chief Minister as per the rules of the Constitution of India. ^[15]

Bye-election, 2011: Bhabanipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee	73,635	77.46	+12.69
	CPI(M)	Nandini Mukherjee	19,422	20.43	-7.55
	Independent	S. K. Dhadra	809	0.85
Majority			54,213	57.03	+20.24
Turnout			95,064	44.73	-19.04
	AITC hold		Swing	+12.69

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Subrata Bakshi	87,903	64.77
	CPI(M)	Narayan Prasad Jain	37,967	27.98
	BJP	Ram Chandra Jaiswal	5,078	3.74
	BSP	Dulal Mistri	1,050	0.77
Majority			49,936	36.79
Turnout			1,35,741	63.78
	AITC win

References

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