Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency

Last updated

Howrah Uttar
Constituency No. 170 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Howrah Uttar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State West Bengal
District Howrah
Lok Sabha constituency Howrah
Established1951
Total electors171,318
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party Trinamool Congress
Elected year 2021

Howrah Uttar 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. 170 Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 7 and 10 to 16 of Howrah Municipal Corporation. [1]

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearNameParty
Howrah North
1951 Biren Banerjee Communist Party of India
1957 Samar Mukhopadhyay
1962 Saila Kumar Mukherjee Indian National Congress
1967
1969 Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee
1971 Shankar Lal Mukherjee
1972
1977 Chittabrata Majumdar Communist Party of India
1982 Ashok Ghosh Indian National Congress
1987
1991 Lagan Deo Singh Communist Party of India
1996
2001
2006
Constituency renamed as Howrah Uttar from 2011
2011 Ashok Ghosh All India Trinamool Congress
2016 Laxmi Ratan Shukla
2021 Gautam Chowdhuri

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Uttar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Gautam Chowdhuri 71,575 47.81
BJP Umesh Rai66,05344.12
CPI(M) Pawan Singh8,1335.43
NOTA None of the above1,6701.12
IND Subhash Kumar Singhi9110.61
Majority 5,5223.69
Turnout 1,49,76268.53
AITC hold Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Uttar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Laxmi Ratan Shukla 61,91746.40
INC Santosh Kumar Pathak34,95826.20
BJP Roopa Ganguly 31,41623.50
IND Subodh Pathak1,1460.9
NOTA None of the above1,0700.79
Majority 26,95920.02
Turnout 1,34,76467.98
AITC hold Swing

.# Swing calculated on LF+Congress vote percentages taken together in 2016.

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Uttar [2] [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Ashoke Ghosh61,46849.25+7.29
CPI(M) Nemai Samanta41,85833.54−20.46
BJP Umesh Rai16,49413.22
IND Hitendranath Mondal1,5141.21
BSP Siddhartha Sarkar7610.61
Majority 19,61015.71
Turnout 1,24,86572.52
AITC gain from CPI(M) Swing 27.75#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections Lagan Deo Singh of CPI(M) won the Howrah North assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Bani Singha of Trinamool Congress in 2006, Asok Ghosh of Congress in the three other years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Asok Ghosh of Congress defeated Lagan Deo Singh of CPI(M) in 1987 and Chittabrata Majumdar of CPI(M) in 1982. Chittabrata Mazumdar of CPI(M) defeated Supriya Basu of Congress in 1977. [4]

1967-1972

Shankarlal Mukherjee of Congress won in 1972 [5] and 1971. [6] Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee of Congress won in 1969. [7] S.K.Mukherjee of Congress won in 1967. [8]

1951-1962

During the period Howrah had four Vidhan Sabha constituencies.

Howrah North

Saila Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962. [9] Samar Mukhopadhyay of CPI won in 1957. [10] Biren Banerjee of CPI won in 1951. [11]

Howrah West

Anadi Dass, Independent, won in 1962. [9] Bankim Chandra Kar of Congress won in 1957 [10] and 1951. [11]

Howrah East

Bejoy Bhattacharyya of Congress won in 1962. [9] Beni Charan Dutta of Congress won in 1957. [10] Saila Kumar Mukhopdhyay of Congress won in 1951. [11]

For results of Howrah South constituency see Howrah Dakshin Assembly constituency

References

  1. 1 2 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Howrah Uttar. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 19 May 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  4. ↑ "162 - Howrah North Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
  5. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  6. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No ?. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  9. 1 2 3 "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  10. 1 2 3 "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  11. 1 2 3 "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.