Chakdaha (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Chakdaha
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Chakdaha Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Chakdaha Chakdaha (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 23°05′0″N88°31′0″E / 23.08333°N 88.51667°E / 23.08333; 88.51667 Coordinates: 23°05′0″N88°31′0″E / 23.08333°N 88.51667°E / 23.08333; 88.51667
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Nadia
Constituency No	91
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	13. Ranaghat (SC)
Electorate (year)	192,318 (2011) [1] 223,765 (2016) [2] 245,514 (2021) [3]

Chakdaha (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 91 Chakdaha (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Chakdaha municipality, and Chanduria I, Dubra, Ghetugachhi, Rautari, Silinda I, Silinda II, Tatla Iand Tatla II gram panchayats of Chakdaha community development block. ^[4]

Chakdaha (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 13 Ranaghat (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC). ^[4] It was earlier part of Nabadwip (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[5]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1957	Chakdaha	Suresh Chandra Banerjee	Praja Socialist Party [6]
1962		Santi Das	Indian National Congress [7]
1967		H.Mitra	Bangla Congress [8]
1969		Subal Chandra Mandal	Bangla Congress [9]
1971		Subhash Chandra Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1972		Hari Das Mitra	Indian National Congress [11]
1977		Binoy Kumar Biswas	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
1982		Subhas Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
1987		Subhas Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
1991		Satyasadhan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [15]
1996		Satyasadhan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [16]
2001		Satyasadhan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [17]
2006		Malay Kumar Samanta	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [18]
2011		Naresh Chandra Chaki	All India Trinamool Congress [19]
2016		Ratna kar Ghosh	All India Trinamool Congress
2021		Bankim Chandra Ghosh	Bharatiya Janata Party [20]

Election Results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Chakdaha constituency ^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Bankim Chandra Ghosh
	AITC	Subhankar Singha (Jishu)
	CPI(M)	Narayan Dasgupta
Turnout
	Bjp gain from Aitc		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Ratna Kar Ghosh of the All India Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Biswanath Gupta of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Chakdaha constituency ^{[19] [22]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ratna Kar Ghosh	88,771	51.20	+12.06
	CPI(M)	Biswanath Gupta	74,672	43.06	-12.11
	BJP	Biswajit Ghosh	6,674	3.85
	BSP	Asutosh Sarker	3,278
Turnout			173,395	90.45
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+24.17

2011

In the 2011 election, Naresh Chandra Chaki of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Biswanath Gupta of CPI(M).

1977-2006

In the 2006 ^[18] state assembly elections Malay Kumar Samanta of CPI (M) won the Chakdaha assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Naresh Chandra Chaki of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, ^[17] 1996 ^[16] and 1991, ^[15] Satyasadhan Chakraborty of CPI (M) defeated his nearest rivals Gouri Sankar Dutta, Sukumar Sarkar and Sukumar Roy (all of Congress) in the respective years. In 1987 ^[14] and 1982, ^[13] Subhas Basu of CPI (M) defeated Sanatanu Bhowmick and Narendra Nath Sarkar (both of Congress) in the respective years. In 1977, Binoy Kumar Biswas, Independent, defeated Saradindu Biswas of Congress. ^{[12] [23]}

1957-1972

Hari Das Mitra of Congress won in 1972. ^[11] Subhash Chandra Basu of CPI(M) won in 1971. ^[10] Subal Chandra Mandal of Bangla Congress won in 1969. ^[9] H.Mitra of Bangla Congress won in 1967. ^[8] Santi Das of Congress won in 1962. ^[7] Suresh Chandra Banerjee of PSP won in 1957. ^[6] The Chakdaha seat was not there in 1951.

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