Chandannagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Chandannagar
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Chandannagar Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Chandannagar Chandannagar (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 22°52′00″N88°23′00″E / 22.86667°N 88.38333°E / 22.86667; 88.38333 Coordinates: 22°52′00″N88°23′00″E / 22.86667°N 88.38333°E / 22.86667; 88.38333
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly
Constituency No.	189
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	28. Hooghly
Electorate (year)	198,602 (2011)
Government
•  MLA	Indranil Sen
• Party	All India Trinamool Congress

Chandannagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (earlier spelt as Chandernagore) is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 189 Chandanagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Chandernagore Municipal Corporation and Bhadreswar Municipality. ^[1]

Chandannagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1957	Chandernagore	Hirendra Kumar Chattopadhyay	Independent [2]
1962		Bhabani Mukherjee	Communist Party of India [3]
1967		Bhabani Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [4]
1969		Bhabani Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [5]
1971		Bhabani Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1972		Bhabani Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1977		Bhabani Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
1982		Bhabani Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [9]
1987		Sandhya Chattopadhyay	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1991		Sandhya Chattopadhyay	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
1996		Kamal Mukherjee	Indian National Congress [12]
2001		Kamal Mukherjee	Indian National Congress [13]
2006		Sibaprasad Bandopadhyay	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
2011	Chandannagar	Ashoke Kumar Shaw	All India Trinamool Congress [15]
2016	Chandannagar	Indranil Sen	All India Trinamool Congress [16]
2021	Chandannagar	Indranil Sen	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Chandannagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Indranil Sen	85604	47.6%
	BJP	Deepanjan Guha	55275	30.7%
	CPI (M)	Goutam Sarkar	33071	18.4%
Turnout
	[[|N/A]] gain from [[|N/A]]		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Chandannagar constituency ^{[16] [17]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ashoke Kumar Shaw	96,430	60.76	+9.91#
	CPI (M)	Sibaprasad Banerjee	53,391	33.64	-12.01
	BJP	Satya Bhusan Pathak	5,109	3.22
	Independent	Subodh Ghoshal	3,780	2.38
Turnout			158,710	79.91
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing	21.92#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections Sibaprosad Bandopadhyay of CPI(M) won the 182 Chandernagore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Ram Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Kamal Mukherjee of Congress defeated Ratan Lal Dasgupta of CPI(M) in 2001 and Sandhya Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) in 1996. Sandhya Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) defeated Kamal Mukherjee of Congress in 1991 and 1987. Bhabani Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Indumati Bhattacharya of Congress in 1982 and Asit Mukhopadhyay of Congress in 1977. ^[18]

1957-1972

Bhabani Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1972, ^[7] 1971, ^[6] 1969 ^[5] and 1967. ^[4] Bhabani Mukherjee of CPI won in 1962. ^[3] Hirendra Kumar Chattopadhyay, Independent, won in 1957. ^[2]

1951-1962 Bhadreswar

The Bhadreswar seat was there between 1951 and 1962. Girija Bhushan Mukhopadhyay of CPI won in 1962. ^[3] Byomkesh Majumdar of Congress won in 1957 ^[2] and in independent India's first election in 1951. ^[19]

References

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