Chowrangee (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Chowrangee
Vidhan Sabha Constituency
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Coordinates: 22°32′42″N88°20′53″E / 22.54500°N 88.34806°E / 22.54500; 88.34806 Coordinates: 22°32′42″N88°20′53″E / 22.54500°N 88.34806°E / 22.54500; 88.34806
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Kolkata
Constituency No	162
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	24. Kolkata Uttar
Electoral system	First past the post

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

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 162 Chowrangee (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 and 62 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. ^[1]

Chowrangee (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 24 Kolkata Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1] Prior to the 2009 Indian general election it was part of Calcutta South (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year		Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
	1957	Bijoy Singh Nahar	Indian National Congress [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
	1962	Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
	1967	Siddhartha Shankar Ray
	1969
	1971	Sankar Ghose
	1972
	1977	Sandip Das	Janata Dal [9]
	1982	Sisir Kumar Bose	Indian National Congress [10] [11] [12]
	1987	Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay
	1991	Siddhartha Shankar Ray
	Bye-election, 1993	Anil Chatterjee	CPIM-Supported Independent [12]
	1996	Subrata Mukherjee	Indian National Congress [13]
	2001		All India Trinamool Congress [14] [15] [16] [17]
	2006	Subrata Bakshi
	2011	Sikha Chowdhury(Mitra)
	Bye-election, 2014	Nayna Bandyopadhyay
	2016
	2021

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowrangee

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nayna Bandyopadhyay	70,101	62.87
	BJP	Devdutta Maji	24,757	22.20
	INC	Santosh Pathak	14,266	12.80
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,212	1.09
	BSP	Swaminath Kori	264	0.24
Majority			45,344	41.07
Turnout			1,11,625	53.61
	AITC hold		Swing	+

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowrangee

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nayna Bandyopadhyay	55,119	47.29	+7.15
	INC	Somendranath Mitra	41,903	36.95	+12.53
	BJP	Ritesh Tiwari	15,707	13.48	-11.64
	None of the Above	None of the Above	2,183	1.87	New
	SUCI(C)	Kartik Kumkar	612	0.53
Majority			13,216	10.34	-4.68
Turnout			1,16,557	56.20	+8.51
	AITC hold		Swing	+7.15

Bye-election, 2014

A bye-election was held on 13 September 2014 following the resignation of the sitting MLA, Shikha Chowdhury(Mitra) who switched over from Trinamool Congress to Congress. ^[17]

Bye-election, 2014: Chowranghee

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nayna Bandyopadhyay	38,328	40.14	-31.76
	BJP	Ritesh Tiwari	23,984	25.12	+20.78
	INC	Santosh Kumar Pathak	23,317	24.42	New
	CPI(M)	Adv. Faiyaz Ahmed Khan	8,890	9.09	New
Majority			14,344	15.02	-37.23
Turnout			96,650	47.69	-4.56
	AITC hold		Swing	-31.76

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowrangee

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sikha Chowdhury (Mitra)	79,450	71.90
	RJD	Bimal Singh	21,711	19.65
	BJP	Shahnawaz Ahmed	4,799	4.34
	AIMF	Abdul Wahab	1,640	1.48
Majority			57,739	52.25
Turnout			1,10,506	54.42
	AITC win

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
2. "Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha" (PDF). Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
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17. "162 Chowrangee Assembly Constituency" (PDF). By election 2014. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 October 2014.