Harishchandrapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Harischandrapur
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Harischandrapur Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Harischandrapur Harischandrapur (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 25°25′N87°53′E / 25.417°N 87.883°E / 25.417; 87.883 Coordinates: 25°25′N87°53′E / 25.417°N 87.883°E / 25.417; 87.883
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Malda
Constituency No	46
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	7. Maldaha Uttar
Electorate (year)	160,562 (2011) [1] 214,992 (2016) [2] 252,487 (2021) [3]

Harishchandrapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Current MLA is Tajmul Hossain leader of All India Trinamool Congress. ^[4]

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 46 Harishchandrapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Harishchandrapur II community development block and Bhingole, Harishchandrapur and Mahendrapur gram panchayats of Harischandrapur I community development block. ^[5]

Harishchandrapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 7 Maldaha Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[5] It was earlier part of Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Harishchandrapur	Ram Hari Roy	Indian National Congress [6]
1957		Md. Elias Razi	Independent [7]
1962		Birendra Kumar Moitra	Indian National Congress [8]
1967		Md. Elias Razi	Independent [9]
1969		Md. Elias Razi	Workers Party of India [10]
1971		Md. Elias Razi	Workers Party of India [11]
1972		Goutam Chakravarty	Indian National Congress [12]
1977		Birendra Kumar Moitra	Janata Party [13]
1982		Abdul Wahed	Indian National Congress [14]
1987		Birendra Kumar Moitra	All India Forward Bloc [15]
1991		Birendra Kumar Moitra	All India Forward Bloc [16]
1996		Birendra Kumar Motra	All India Forward Bloc [17]
2001		Alam Mostaque	Indian National Congress [18]
2006		Tajmul Hossain	All India Forward Bloc [19]
2011		Tajmul Hossain	All India Forward Bloc/Trinamool Congress [20]
2016 west Bengal assembly election		Alam Mostaque	INC

Election results

2016

West Bengal Assembly elections, 2016: Harishchandrapur constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	ALAM MOSTAQUE	60047	34.90
	AITC	TAJMUL HOSSAIN	42190	24.52
	AIFB	ALAM MD. RAFIQUL	35075	20.39
	BJP	SANVARLAL KEDIA	25889	15.05
	BSP	EFRAJUL HOQUE	3460	2.01

2011

In the 2011 election, Tajamul Hossain of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Mostaque Alam of Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Harishchandrapur constituency ^{[20] [21]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIFB	Tajmul Hossain	62,019	46.19	-0.48
	INC	Mostaque Alam	59,578	44.37	-0.80
	BJP	Rina Saha	6,033	4.49
	BSP	Efrajul Hoque	3,876	2.89
	Independent	Monowara Begam	1,815
	Independent	Gouri Sankar Kedia	942
Turnout			134,263	83.63
	AIFB hold		Swing	+0.32

1977–2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections ^[19] Tajmul Hossain of Forward Bloc won the Harishchandrapur assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Alam Mostaque of Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Alam Mostaque of Congress defeated Birendra Kumar Maitra of Forward Bloc in 2001. ^[18] Birendra Kumar Maitra of Forward Bloc defeated Alam Mostaque of Congress in 1996 ^[17] and Abdul Wahed of Congress in 1991 ^[16] and 1987. ^[15] Abdul Wahed of Congress defeated Subhash Chaudhury of Forward Bloc in 1982. ^[14] Birendra Kumar Maitra of Janata Party defeated Mohammad Elias Razi of WPI in 1977. ^{[13] [22]}

1951–1972

Goutam Chakravarty of Congress won in 1972. ^[12] Md. Elias Razi of WPI/ Independent won in 1971, ^[11] 1969 ^[10] and 1967. ^[9] Birendra Kumar Maitra of Congress won in 1962. ^[8] Md. Elias Razi contesting as an independent candidate won in 1957. ^[7] In independent India's first election in 1951, Ramhari Roy of Congress won the Harishchandrapur seat. ^[6]

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