Durgapur Paschim

Durgapur Paschim
Vidhan Sabha constituency
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Coordinates: 23°33′N87°17′E / 23.550°N 87.283°E / 23.550; 87.283 Coordinates: 23°33′N87°17′E / 23.550°N 87.283°E / 23.550; 87.283
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Paschim Bardhaman
Constituency No.	277
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	39. Bardhaman-Durgapur
Electorate (year)	208,532 (2011)

Durgapur Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It broadly covers the area earlier covered by Durgapur I assembly constituency.

Overview

In 1952 Ausgram constituency had two members. In 1957, there was the Ondal constituency with two members. In 1962 and 1967, there was a single Durgapur seat. Additionally, there was a Faridpur seat from 1967 to 1972.^{[ citation needed ]}

From 1972, Durgapur had two assembly seats. As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, Durgapur I and II have been renamed Durgapur Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and Durgapur Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) respectively. No. 276 Durgapur Purba assembly constituency covers ward nos. 1 – 10, 23 – 28 of Durgapur municipal corporation and Amlajora, Gopalpur and Molandighi gram panchayats of Kanksa community development block. No. 277 Durgapur Paschim assembly constituency covers ward nos. 11 – 22 and 29 – 43 of Durgapur municipal corporation. ^[1]

Durgapur I & II assembly segments were earlier part of Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency). As per orders of Delimitation Commission Durgapur Purba and Durgapur Paschim are part of No. 39 Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

The West Bengal political scenario has changed dramatically over the years. In the early years after independence it was a scene of fluctuating fortunes between the Congress and the Left wing parties, till the latter captured power in the late seventies. The United News of India in a candid analysis says, “The green surge swept Bengal to demolish the red bastion in 2011 Assembly elections… Moreover, as the Left still remained cornered in state politics, their neutralised voters are increasingly migrating to the BJP for a viable alternative.” ^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Ausgram	Kanai Lal Das and Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay	Indian National Congress [3]
1957	Ondal	Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay and Dwajadhari Mondal	Indian National Congress [4]
1962	Durgapur	Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay	Indian National Congress [5]
1967	Durgapur	Dilip Kumar Mazumdar	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1967	Faridpur	Manoranjan Bakshi	Bangla Congress [7]
1969	Durgapur	Dilip Kumar Mazumdar	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
1969	Faridpur	Manornjan Bakshi	Bangla Congress [9]
1971	Durgapur	Dilip Kumar Mazumdar	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1971	Faridpur	Sanat Kumar Banerjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
1972	Durgapur	Ananda Gopal Mukhopdhyay	Indian National Congress [12]
1972	Faridpur	Ajit Kumar Bandopadhyay	Indian National Congress [13]
1977	Durgapur I	Dilip Mazumdar	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
1982		Dilip Mazumdar	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [15]
1987		Dilip Mazumdar	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [16]
1991		Dilip Mazumdar	Communist Party of India (marxist) [17]
1996		Mrinal Banerjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [18]
2001		Mrinal Banerjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [19]
2006		Mrinal Banerjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [20] [21]
2011	Durgapur Paschim	Apurva Mukherjee	All India Trinamool Congress [22]
2016		Biswanath Parial	Indian National Congress [23]
2021		Lakshman Chandra Ghorui	Bharatiya Janata Party [24]

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Durgapur Paschim ^[24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Lakshman Chandra Ghorui	91186	46.31	+37.31
	AITC	Biswanath Parial	76522	38.86	+5.86
	INC	Debesh Chakraborty	18030	9.16	-46.84
	Independent	Narayan Mondal	2,130	1.08
	Independent	Chadramallika Bandopadhyay	2038	1.04
	BSP	Prabhunath Sah	1228	0.62
	JD(U)	Sanjiban Hazra	915	0.16
	RPI(A)	Sandip Sikder	879	0.45
	SUCI(C)	Somnath Banerjee	691	0.35
Turnout			196,902
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Durgapur Paschim ^[23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Biswanath Parial	108,533
	AITC	Apurba Mukherjee	63,709
	BJP	Kalyan Dubey	18313
	SUCI(C)	Shyamali Banerjee (Roy Choudhuri)	1917
	BSP	Sandip Sarkar	1,506
	Independent	Kanai Dutta	839
	Bahujan Mukti Party	Atul Chandra Bauri	679
	NOTA	None of the above	3, 879
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

Apurba Mukherjee emerged victorious by defeating his nearest rival Biprendu Kumar Chakraborty

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Durgapur Paschim ^{[25] [26] [27]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Apurba Mukherjee	92,454	51.94	#
	CPI (M)	Biprendu Kumar Chakraborty	75,448	42.38	-17.52#
	BJP	Kalyan Dubey	5,434	3.05
	JD(U)	Sunil Yadab	2,859
	BSP	Sandip Sarkar	1,813
Turnout			178,008	85.36
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing	#

.# Change for CPI(M) calculated on the basis of its vote percentage in 2006 in Durgapur I constituency. Trinamool Congress did not contest the seat in 2006.

Durgapur I constituency 1977–2010

In the by-election, caused by the death of sitting MLA, Mrinal Banerjee, held in July 2010, Archana Bhattacharya of CPI(M) defeated Bansi Badan Karmakar of Congress. ^[28] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Mrinal Banerjee of CPI (M) won the Durgapur I seat in 2006, 2001, and 1996 defeating Congress candidates Banshi Badan Karmakar, Chandra Sekhar Banerjee and Mrigendranath Pal respectively. Dilip Mazumdar of CPI (M) won the seat in 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977. ^[29]

Durgapur constituency 1962–1972

Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay of Congress won the Durgapur seat in 1972. Dilip Mazumdar of CPI (M) won the seat in 1971, 1969 and 1967. Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay of INC won the seat in 1962. ^[30]

Faridpur constituency 1967–1972

Ajit Kumar Bandopadhyay of Congress won the Faridpur seat in 1972. Sanat Kumar Banerjee of CPI(M) won in 1971. Manoranjan Bakshi of Bangla Congress won in 1969 and 1967. ^[30]

Ondal constituency 1957

Dhawajadhari Mondal and Ananda Gopal Mukherjee, both of Congress, won the Ondal seat in 1957. ^[30]

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