Chapra (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

For disambiguation, see Chapra (disambiguation).

Chapra
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Chapra Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Chapra Chapra (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 23°32′14″N88°33′10″E / 23.53722°N 88.55278°E / 23.53722; 88.55278 Coordinates: 23°32′14″N88°33′10″E / 23.53722°N 88.55278°E / 23.53722; 88.55278
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Nadia
Constituency No	82
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	12. Krishnanagar
Electorate (year)	186,756 (2011) [1] 219,864 (2016) [2] 248,014 (2021) [3]

Chapra (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. 82 Chapra (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Chapra community development block. ^[4]

Chapra (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 12 Krishnanagar (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[4]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Chapra	Smarajit Bandopadhyay	Indian National Congress [5]
1957	Haringhata	Smarajit Bandopadhyay	Indian National Congress [6]
		Promatha Ranjan Thakur	Indian National Congress [6]
1962	Chapra	Mohananda Haldar	Sanjukta Biplabi Parishad [7]
1967		Jagannath Majumdar	Bangla Congress [8]
1969		Salil Behari Hundle	Bangla Congress [9]
1971		Sahabuddin Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1972		Ghiasuddin Ahmad	Indian National Congress [11]
1977		Sahabauddin Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
1982		Sahabauddin Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
1987		Mir Qusem	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
1991		Mir Quasem Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [15]
1996		Mir Quasem Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [16]
2001		Shamsul Islam Mollah	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [17]
2006		Shamsul Islam Mollah	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [18]
2011		Rukbanur Rahaman	All India Trinamool Congress [19]
2016		Rukbanur Rahaman	All India Trinamool Congress [ citation needed ]
2021	Chapra	Rukbanur Rahaman	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Chapra constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rukbanur Rahman	73,866	34.65	-13.14
	Independent	Jeber Sekh	61,748	28.97
	BJP	Kalyan Kumar Nandi	58,168	27.29	+19.35
	CPI (M)	Jahangir Biswas (Raju)	11,722	5.50	-35.11
	ISF	Kanchan Moitra	3,865	1.81
	NOTA	None of the above	2,023	0.95	-0.06
	BSP	Rokibul Hossain Molla	1,070	0.50
	SUCI(C)	Mozammel Hossain Mondal	713	0.33
Turnout			213,175
	AITC hold		Swing

.# Jeber Sekh, contesting as an Independent candidate, was a rebel Trinamool Congress member.

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Chapra constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rukbanur Rahman	89,556	47.79	+0.65
	CPI (M)	Shamsul Islam Mollah	76,093	40.61	-4.93
	BJP	Sutirtha Chakraborty (Chuni)	14,887	7.94	+3.63
	SHS	Samaresh Biswas	4,081	2.18
	NOTA	None of the above	1,894	1.01
	CPI(ML)L	Dhananjay Ganguly	884	0.47
Turnout			187,895	85.23	-2.62
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Rukbanur Rahaman of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Shamsul Islam Mollah of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Chapra constituency ^{[19] [20]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rukbanur Rahaman	77,435	47.14	-9.10#
	CPI (M)	Shamsul Islam Mollah	74,802	45.54	+2.22
	BJP	Baidyanath Biswas	7,078	4.31
	CPI(ML)L	Bijoy Kumar Saha	2,765
	JD(U)	Soumen Mandal	2,180
Turnout			164,260	87.87
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing	-11.32#

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

1977-2006

In 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections, Shamsul Islam Mollah of CPI(M) won the Chapra assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals, Abdur Rashid Mollick of Congress in 2006 ^[18] and Julfikar Khan of Trinamool Congress in 2001. ^[17] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Mir Quasem Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Julfikar Khan representing Congress in 1996, ^[16] and Arun Kumar Ghosh of Congress in 1991. ^[15] Mir Qusem of CPI(M) defeated Dilip Dutta of Congress in 1987. ^[14] Sahabauddin Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Arun Biswas, Independent, in 1982 ^[13] and Kazi Safluddin of Janata Party in 1977. ^{[12] [21]}

1951–1972

Ghiasuddin Ahmad of Congress won in 1972. ^[11] Sahabuddin Mondal of CPI(M) won in 1971. ^[10] Salil Behari Hundle of Bangla Congress won in 1969. ^[9] J.Mojumdar of Bangla Congress won in 1967. ^[8] Mohananda Haldar of Sanjukta Biplabi Parishad won in 1962, ^[7] The Chapra constituency was not there in 1957. Smarajit Bandopadhyay and Promatha Ranjan Thakur, both of Congress, won from the Haringhata joint seat in 1957. ^[6] In independent India's first election in 1951, Smarajit Bandopadhyay of Congress won the Chapra seat. ^[5]

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