Chakdaha Assembly constituency

Chakdaha
Constituency No. 91 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Chakdaha Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Nadia
LS constituency	Ranaghat
Established	1957
Total electors	245,514
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Bankim Chandra Ghosh
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2021

Chakdaha Assembly 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 Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Chakdaha municipality, and Chanduria I, Dubra, Ghetugachhi, Rautari, Silinda I, Silinda II, Tatla I and Tatla II gram panchayats of Chakdaha community development block. ^[1]

Chakdaha Assembly constituency is part of No. 13 Ranaghat (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC). ^[1] It was earlier part of Nabadwip (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party Affiliation
1957	Suresh Chandra Banerjee	Praja Socialist Party [3]
1962	Santi Das	Indian National Congress [4]
1967	H.Mitra	Bangla Congress [5]
1969	Subal Chandra Mandal	Bangla Congress [6]
1971	Subhash Chandra Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1972	Hari Das Mitra	Indian National Congress [8]
1977	Binoy Kumar Biswas	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [9]
1982	Subhas Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1987	Subhas Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
1991	Satyasadhan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
1996	Satyasadhan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
2001	Satyasadhan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
2006	Malay Kumar Samanta	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [15]
2011	Naresh Chandra Chaki	All India Trinamool Congress [16]
2016	Ratna kar Ghosh	All India Trinamool Congress
2021	Bankim Chandra Ghosh	Bharatiya Janata Party [17]

Election Results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chakdaha ^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Bankim Chandra Ghosh	99,368	46.86
	AITC	Subhankar Singha (Jishu)	87,688	41.35
	CPI(M)	Narayan Dasgupta	17812	8.4%
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, 2016: Chakdaha constituency ^{[16] [19]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ratna Kar Ghosh	94241	49.63%
	CPI(M)	Biswanath Gupta	70588	37.17%
	BJP	Pradip Kumar Sarkar	16294	8.58%
	NOTA	NOTA	2739
	SHS	Sarnab Bose	2579
	BSP	Dhirendra Majumdar	2077
	PDS	Ashok Kumar Kundu	1368
Turnout			189886
Majority			23,653
	AITC hold		Swing	{{{swing}}}

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Naresh Chandra Chaki	88771	51.2%	+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

2006

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Malay kumar Samanta	109670
	AITC	Naresh Chandra Chaki	77801
	PDS	Subhash Basu	4658
	BSP	Arabinda Mandal	4210
Turnout			198797
	CPIM hold		Swing	{{{swing}}}

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 ^[15] 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, ^[14] 1996 ^[13] and 1991, ^[12] 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 ^[11] and 1982, ^[10] 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. ^{[9] [20]}

1957-1972

Hari Das Mitra of Congress won in 1972. ^[8] Subhash Chandra Basu of CPI(M) won in 1971. ^[7] Subal Chandra Mandal of Bangla Congress won in 1969. ^[6] H.Mitra of Bangla Congress won in 1967. ^[5] Santi Das of Congress won in 1962. ^[4] Suresh Chandra Banerjee of PSP won in 1957. ^[3] The Chakdaha seat was not there in 1951.

References

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