Bharatpur, West Bengal Assembly constituency

For the constituency in Rajasthan, see Bharatpur, Rajasthan Assembly constituency.

Bharatpur
Constituency No. 69 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Bharatpur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Murshidabad
LS constituency	Baharampur
Established	1951
Total electors	243,603
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Humayun Kabir
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Bharatpur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 69 Bharatpur Assembly constituency covers Bharatpur II community development block, and Alugram, Amlai, Bharatpur, Sijgram and Talgram gram panchayats of Bharatpur I community development block. ^[1]

Bharatpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 10 Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party Affiliation
1951	Bijoyendu Narayan Roy	Indian National Congress [2]
1957	Goalbadan Trivedi	Indian National Congress [3]
1962	Shambhu Gopal Das	Revolutionary Socialist Party [4]
1967	S.Sinha	Indian National Congress [5]
1969	Satyapada Bhattachayya	Indian National Congress [6]
1971	Khondekor Md Nure Ahasan	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1972	Kumar Dipti Sengupta	Indian National Congress [8]
1977	Satyapada Bhattachatyya	Revolutionary Socialist Party [9]
1982		Revolutionary Socialist Party [10]
1987		Revolutionary Socialist Party [11]
1991	Id Mohammad	Revolutionary Socialist Party [12]
1996		Revolutionary Socialist Party [13]
2001		Revolutionary Socialist Party [14]
2006		Revolutionary Socialist Party [15]
2011		Revolutionary Socialist Party [16]
2016	Kamalesh Chatterjee	Indian National Congress [17]
2021	Humayun Kabir	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2011

In the 2011 election, Id Mohammad of RSP defeated his nearest rival Daliya Begum of Congress.

2011 West Bengal state assembly election: Bharatpur ^{[16] [18]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RSP	Id Mohammad	70,658	47.78	-1.78
	INC	Daliya Begum	68,729	46.48	+2.64
	Independent	Somnath Goswami	3,711	2.51
	BJP	Madhusudan Saha	3,243	2.19
	Independent	Ranjit Konai	1,534
Turnout			147,875	81.48
	RSP hold		Swing	-0.89

Somnath Goswami, contesting as an independent, was a Congress rebel. ^[19]

1977–2006

In the 2006, ^[15] 2001, ^[14] 1996 ^[13] and 1991 ^[12] state assembly elections Id Mohammad of RSP won the Bharatpur assembly seat defeating Afzal Hossain Khan of Congress, Debasish Chatterjee, Independent, Satya Narayan Banerjee, Independent, and Abdul Malek of Congress, respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Satyapada Bhattachatyya of RSP defeated Khairul Khondakar of Congress in 1987 ^[11] and Abdul Mannan of Congress/ Independent in 1982 ^[10] and 1977. ^{[9] [20]}

1951–1972

Kumar Dipti Sengupta of Congress won in 1972. ^[8] Khondekor Md Nure Ahasan of CPI(M) won in 1971. ^[7] Satyapada Bhattachayya of Congress won in 1969. ^[6] S.Sinha of Congress won in 1967. ^[5] Shambhu Gopal Das of RSP won in 1962. ^[4] Goalbadan Trivedi of Congress won in 1957. ^[3] In independent India's first election in 1951 Bijoyendu Narayan Roy of Congress won the Bharatpur seat. ^[2]

References

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18. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Bharatpur. Empowering India. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
19. "Murshidabad, Birbhum Independents pose problems for official candidates". The Statesman 6 April 2011. Archived from the original on 12 June 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
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