Durgapur Purba

Durgapur Purba
Vidhan Sabha constituency
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Coordinates: 23°33′N87°19′E / 23.550°N 87.317°E / 23.550; 87.317 Coordinates: 23°33′N87°19′E / 23.550°N 87.317°E / 23.550; 87.317
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Paschim Bardhaman
Constituency No.	276
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	39. Bardhaman-Durgapur
Electorate (year)	201,250 (2001)

Durgapur Purba (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 II 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.

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 II	Tarun Chatterjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
1982		Tarun Chatterjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [15]
1987		Tarun Chatterjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [16]
1991		Tarun Chatterjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [17]
1996		Debabrata Banerjee	Communist Party of India [18]
2001		Apurba Mukherjee	All India Trinamool Congress [19]
2006		Biprendu Kumar Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [20] [21]
2011	Durgapur Purba	Dr. Nikhil Kumar Banerjee	All India Trinamool Congress [22]
2016		Santosh Debray	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [23]
2021		Pradip Mazumdar	All India Trinamool Congress [24]

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Durgapur Purba ^[24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Pradip Mazumdar	79,303	41.16	+5.65
	BJP	Col. Diptansu Chaudhury	75,557	39.21
	CPI (M)	Abhash Ray Chaudhuri	29,063	15.08	-64.48
	NOTA	None of the above	2,628	1.36
	IND	Dipak Dhali	1,884	0.98
Majority			3,746	1.97
Turnout			1,92,929	75.21
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Durgapur Purba ^[23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	Santosh Debray	84,200	44.21	-1.16#
	AITC	Pradip Mazumdar	75,069	39.42	-10.90#
	BJP	Akhil Mondal	23,302	12.23	+7.92#
	SUCI(C)	Asit Baran Mondal	1,676	0.88
	NOTA	None of the above	3,680
Majority			9,131	4.80
Turnout			1,90,525	81.42
	CPI (M) gain from AITC		Swing

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages in 2011 taken together, as well as the CPI(M) vote for Durgapur II constituency.

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Durgapur Purba ^{[25] [26] [27]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nikhil Kumar Banerjee	87,050	50.32	+7.18#
	CPI (M)	Alpana Chowdhury	78,484	45.37	-4.46#
	BJP	Lakshman Ghorui	7,449	4.31
Majority			8,566	4.95
Turnout			1,73,749	85.82
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing	+11.64

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages in 2006 taken together, as well as the CPI(M) vote for Durgapur II constituency.

Durgapur II constituency 1977-2006

In 2006 assembly elections, Biprendu Kumar Chakraborty of CPI (M) won the Durgapur II seat defeating his nearest rival Apurba Mukherjee of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Apurba Mukherjee won the seat in 2001 defeating Debabrata Banerjee of CPI (M). In 1996, Debabrata Banerjee had won the seat defeating Malay Kanti Dutta of Congress. In 1991, Tarun Chatterjee of CPI (M) had won the seat defeating Asit Chattaraj of Congress. Tarun Chatterjee won it in 1987 defeating Narayan Hazara Chowdhury of Congress. In 1982, Tarun Chaterjee defeated Baren Roy of Congress. Tarun Chatterjee defeated Ajit Banerjee of Congress in 1977. ^[28]

Durgapur constituency 1967-1972

Ananda Gopal Mukherjee of Congress won the Durgapur seat in 1972. Dilip Mazumdar of CPI (M) won the seat in 1971, 1969 and 1967. Ananda Gopal Mukherjee of INC won the seat in 1962. ^[29]

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. ^[29]

Ondal constituency 1957

Dhawajadhari Mondal and Ananda Gopal Mukherjee, both of Congress, jointly won the Ondal seat in 1957. ^[29]

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