Kalna Assembly constituency

Kalna
Constituency No. 264 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Kalna Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Lok Sabha constituency	Bardhaman Purba
Established	1951
Total electors	187,158
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Deboprasad Bag
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Kalna is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 264 Kalna (SC) assembly constituency covers Kalna municipality, Kalna II community development block and Bagnapara, Hatkalna and Krishnadevpur gram panchayats of Kalna I community development block. ^[1]

Kalna (SC) assembly segment was part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency) prior to 2009. As per orders of Delimitation Commission it is part of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency) from 2009. ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1951	Baidyanath Sanyal		Indian National Congress
	Rash Behari Sen
1957	Hare Krishna Konar		Communist Party of India
	Jamadar Majhi
1962	Hare Krishna Konar
1967			Communist Party of India
1969
1971
1972	Nurul Islam Mollah		Indian National Congress
1977	Guruprasad Sinha Roy		Communist Party of India
1982	Anju Kar
1987
1991
1996
2001
2006	Anjali Mondal
2011	Biswajit Kundu		All India Trinamool Congress
2016
2021	Deboprasad Bag (Poltu)

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Kalna ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Deboprosad Bag (Poltu)	96,073	45.98	4.34
	BJP	Biswjit Kundu	88,595	42.40	33.32
	CPI(M)	Nirab Khan	19,005	9.10	28.17
	BSP	Radheshyam Mondal	2,084	1.00	0.02
	SUCI(C)	Kali Charan Sardar	687	0.33
	NOTA	None of the above	2,507	1.2
Turnout			208,951
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna ^{[3] [4]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Biswajit Kundu	97,430	50.32
	CPI(M)	Sukul Chandra Sikdar	72,169	37.27
	BJP	Newton Majumdar	17,577	9.08
	BSP	Radheshyam Mondal	1,976	1.02
	CPI(ML)L	Pejush Kumar Sahana	1,612	0.83
	NOTA	None of the above	2,865	1.48
Majority
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Kalna ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Biswajit Kundu	85,096	49.98	+11.01#
	CPI(M)	Sukul Chandra Sikdar	72,459	42.56	−17.18
	BJP	Dilip Mondal	6,021	3.54
	Independent	Tapan Das	2,053
	CPI(ML)L	Pijush Kumar Sahana	1,647
	PDS	Shibu Halder	1,557
	BSP	Radhesyam Mondal	1,437
Turnout			170,270	90.98
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+28.24#

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

1977–2006

Anjali Mondal of CPI(M) won the Kalna assembly seat in 2006, defeating her nearest rival Asis Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Anju Kar of CPI(M) won the seat 2001, 1996, 1991, 1987 and 1982 defeating her nearest rivals, Sridhar Banerjee of Trinamool Congress in 2001, Lakshman Kumar Roy of Congress in 1996, Dhirendranath Chaterjee of Congress in 1991 and 1987, and Sudhir Ghosh of Congress in 1982. Guruprasad Sinha Roy of CPI(M) won the seat in 1977 defeating Debendra Bejoy Ghosh of Janata Party in 1977. ^[8]

1951–1972

Nurul Islam Mollah of Congress won the Kalna assembly seat in 1972. Hare Krishna Konar of CPI(M) won the seat in 1971, 1969, 1967 and 1962 (representing CPI). In 1957 and 1951, it was a double member seat. In 1957, it was won by Hare Krishna Konar and Jamadar Majhi, both representing CPI. In independent India's first election in 1951, it was won by Baidyanath Santal and Rasbehari, both Congress. ^[9]

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
2. "Kalna Election Result 2021". Times Now News.com. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
3. "Kalna". 2016 Legislative Assembly Election. Result University. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
4. "Kalna". Assembly Election Result 2016 Live. InfoElections. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
5. "Kalna". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 28 May 2011.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
6. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Kalna. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
7. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). Kalna. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
8. "276 – Kalna Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
9. "Statistical Reports of Assembly Elections". General Election Results and Statistics. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 29 August 2010.