Howrah Madhya Assembly constituency

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Howrah Madhya
Constituency No. 171 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Howrah Madhya Assembly constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Howrah Madhya Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State West Bengal
District Howrah
Lok Sabha constituency Howrah
Established1951
Total electors223,616
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year 2021

Howrah Madhya Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Contents

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 171 Howrah Madhya Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 17 to 20, 24 to 34, 36, 37 and 42 of Howrah Municipal Corporation. [1]

Howrah Madhya Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency). [1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Howrah North

YearNameParty
1951 Biren Banerjee Communist Party of India
1957 Samar Mukhopadhyay
1962 Saila Kumar Mukherjee Indian National Congress

Howrah South

YearNameParty
1951 Beni Charan Dutta Indian National Congress
1957 Kanai Lal Bhattacharya All India Forward Bloc
1962

Howrah West

YearNameParty
1951 Bankim Chandra Kar Indian National Congress
1957
1962 Anadi Das Independent politician

Howrah East

YearNameParty
1951 Saila Kumar Mukhopadhyay Indian National Congress
1957 Beni Charan Dutta
1962 Bejoy Bhattacharya

Howrah Central

YearNameParty
1967 D. Mitra Indian National Congress
1969 Anadi Das Revolutionary Communist Party of India
1971 Sudhindranath Kumar
1972 Mrityunjoy Banerjee Indian National Congress
1977 Sudhindranath Kumar Revolutionary Communist Party of India
1982 Ambica Banerjee Indian National Congress
1987
1991
1996
2001 All India Trinamool Congress
2006 Arup Ray Communist Party of India

Howrah Madhya

YearNameParty
2011 Aroop Roy All India Trinamool Congress
2016
2021

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Madhya
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Aroop Roy 111,554 57.16
BJP Sanjay Singh65,00733.31
INC Palash Bhandari12,9426.63
NOTA None of the above2,7351.40
JD(U) Anamika Singh5450.28
Majority 46,54724.18
Turnout 1,95,25873.26
AITC hold Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Madhya
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Aroop Roy 91,80052.20
JD(U) Amitabha Dutta38,80622.06
BJP Sanjay Singh35,69120.29
NOTA None of the above4,1352.35
SUCI(C) Soumitra Sengupta1,3260.75
Majority 52,99430.13
Turnout 1,76,04771.81
AITC hold Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Aroop Roy (Apu) of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Arup Ray(Tukun)of CPI(M).

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Madhya [2] [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Aroop Roy 1,03,18462.07
CPI(M) Arup Ray (Tukun)52,51431.59
BJP Ram Narayan Chowrasia6,2233.74
IND Sunil Dalui1,5940.96
JD(U) Vikram Singh Grewal1,0710.64
Majority 50,67030.48
Turnout 1,66,40774.11
AITC gain from CPI(M) Swing 18.20#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections [4] Arup Ray of CPI(M) won the Howrah Central assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Ambica Banerjee of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, [5] 1996, [6] 1991, [7] 1987 [8] and 1982 [9] state assembly elections, Ambica Banerjee of Trinamool Congress/ Congress defeated Subir Ranjan Das of CPI(M) in 2001, Sureswar Dutta of Janata Dal in 1996 and 1991, Sankar Mondol, Independent, in 1987, and Sudhindranath Kumar in 1982. Sudhindranath Kumar, Revolutionary Communist Party of India, defeated Sukumar Banerjee of Janata Party in 1977. [10] [11] [12]

1967-1972

Mrityunjoy Banerjee of Congress won in 1972. [13] Sudhindranath Kumar of RCPI won in 1971, [14] [12] Anadi Das of RCPI won in 1969. [15] [12] D. Mitra of Congress won in 1967. [16]

1951-1962

During the period Howrah had four Vidhan Sabha constituencies.

Howrah North

Saila Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962. [17] Samar Mukhopadhyay of CPI won in 1957. [18] Biren Banerjee of CPI won in 1951. [19]

Howrah West

Anadi Dass, Independent, won in 1962. [17] Bankim Chandra Kar of Congress won in 1957 [18] and 1951. [19]

Howrah East

Bejoy Bhattacharyya of Congress won in 1962. [17] Beni Chandra Dutta of Congress won in 1957. [18] Saila Kumar Mukhopdhyay of Congress won in 1951. [19]

For results of Howrah South constituency see Howrah Dakshin Assembly constituency

References

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  12. 1 2 3 Communist Party of India (Marxist). West Bengal State Committee. Election results of West Bengal: statistics & analysis, 1952-1991. The Committee. p. 416.
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