Dum Dum (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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Dum Dum
Vidhan Sabha constituency
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Bratya Basu,current MLA and Incumbent Education Minister of West Bengal
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Dum Dum
Location in Kolkata
Coordinates: 22°37′0″N88°25′0″E / 22.61667°N 88.41667°E / 22.61667; 88.41667 Coordinates: 22°37′0″N88°25′0″E / 22.61667°N 88.41667°E / 22.61667; 88.41667
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
State West Bengal
District North 24 Parganas
Constituency No. 114
TypeOpen
Lok Sabha constituency 16. Dum Dum
Electorate (year)232,545 (2019)
Government
 • Current MLA Bratya Basu
 •  Political party   AITC   

Dum Dum (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 114 Dum Dum (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Dum Dum municipality and Ward Nos.1-17 of South Dum Dum municipality. [1]

Dum Dum (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 16 Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency). [1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election
Year		ConstituencyName of M.L.A.Party Affiliation
1951 Dum DumKanai Lal Das Indian National Congress [2]
1957 Pabitra Mohan Roy Praja Socialist Party [3]
1962 Tarun Kumar Sengupta Communist Party of India [4]
1967 Tarun Kumar Sengupta Communist Party of India (Marxist) [5]
1969Tarun Kumar SenguptaCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1971Tarun Kumar SenguptaCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1972Lal Bahadur SinghIndian National Congress [8]
1977Santi Ranjan GhatakCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [9]
1982Santi Ranjan GhatakCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1987Santi Ranjan GhatakCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
1991 Sankar Sen Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
1996Sankar SenCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
2001 Arunava Ghosh All India Trinamool Congress [14]
2006 Rekha GoswamiCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [15]
2011 Bratya Basu All India Trinamool Congress [16]
2016 Bratya Basu All India Trinamool Congress
2021 Bratya Basu All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Dum Dum
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Bratya Basu 87,99947.48+0.75
BJP Prof. Bimal Shankar Nanda61,26833.06+24.73
CPI(M) Palash Das30,65316.54-24.85
NOTA None of the above 2,0391.10-0.90
BSP Subrata Kumar Majumder9800.53-0.44
Independent Rupa Sarkar7740.42
Bharatiya Nyay - Adhikar Raksha PartyRana Pal Choudhury7390.40
Independent Shree Raju Ghosh4640.25
Independent Subrata Sen4180.23
Majority26,73114.42+9.80
Turnout 185,33474.77-4.29
AITC hold Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Dum Dum
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Bratya Basu 81,57946.73-10.77
CPI(M) Palash Das72,26341.39+3.44
BJP Uma Singha14,5508.33+5.70
BSP Subrata Kumar Majumdar1,7050.97+0.07
Independent Subrata Sen9590.54N/A
NOTA None of the above3,5062.00N/A
Majority9,3165.34-14.21
Turnout 174,56279.06-2.16
AITC hold Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Bratya Basu of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Gautam Deb of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Dum Dum constituency [16] [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Bratya Basu 92,63557.50+14.72#
CPI(M) Gautam Deb 61,13837.95-16.01
BJP Anjana Chaturvedi4,2362.63
PDS Tushar Kanti Roy1,6401.02
BSP Narendranath Ghosh1,4460.90
Majority31,49719.55
Turnout 161,09581.22
AITC gain from CPI(M) Swing 30.73#

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

2006

In the 2006 elections, Rekha Goswami of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Udayan Namboodiry of Trinamool Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Dum Dum constituency [16] [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CPI(M) Rekha Goswami99,05457.50+14.72#
AITC Udayan Namboodiry68,81637.95-16.01
INC Ahindra Majumder (Ahin)11,5412.63
Bahujan Samaj PartySudhir Deb Barma2,3801.02
JMM Partha Sarathi Dasgupta1,7700.90
Turnout 161,09581.22
CPI(M) gain from AITC Swing 30.73#

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

2001

In the 2001 elections, Arunava Ghosh of AITC defeated his nearest rival Ajit Choudhury of CPIM.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2001: Dum Dum constituency [14] [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Arunava Ghosh81,22846.70+14.72#
CPI(M) Ajit Choudhury81,00446.57-16.01
BJP Ramen Bhattacharya8,5644.92
IndependentMrinal Paul1,3500.78
NCP Amit Kumar Roy1,2060.69
Independent Debashis Banerjee5900.34
Turnout 161,09581.22
AITC gain from CPI(M) Swing 30.73#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+ Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2001.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, [15] Rekha Goswami of CPI(M) won from the Dum Dum assembly constituency defeating her nearest rival Udayan Namboodiry of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Arunava Ghosh of Trinamool Congress defeated Ajit Chowdhury of CPI(M) in 2001. [14] Sankar Sen of CPI(M) defeated Nitai Ghosh of Congress in 1996 [13] and Ramesh Bhattacharjee of Congress in 1991. [12] Santi Ranjan Ghatak of CPI(M) defeated Harashit Ghosh of Congress in 1987, [11] and Lal Bahadur Singh of Congress in 1982 [10] and 1977. [9] [20]

1951-1972

Lal Bahadur Singh of Congress won in 1972. [8] Tarun Kumar Sengupta of CPI(M) won in 1971, [7] 1969 [6] and 1967. [5] Tarun Kumar Sengupta representing CPI won in 1962. [4] Pabitra Mohan Roy of PSP won in 1957. [3] In independent India's first election in 1951, kanai Lal Das of Congress won from the Dum Dum constituency. [2]

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References

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