Karandighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

This article is about the assembly constituency in West Bengal, India. For 1 its namesake village, see Karandighi, Uttar Dinajpur. For 2 its namesake community development block, see Karandighi.

Karandighi
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Karandighi Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Karandighi Karandighi (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 25°48′N87°56′E / 25.800°N 87.933°E / 25.800; 87.933 Coordinates: 25°48′N87°56′E / 25.800°N 87.933°E / 25.800; 87.933
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Uttar Dinajpur
Constituency No	32
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	Raiganj
Electorate (year)	182,522 (2011) [1] 227,234 (2016) [2] 262,583 (2021) [3]

Karandighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Uttar Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 32 Karandighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Dalkhola Municipality and Altapur I, Altapur II, Dalkhola II, Domhana, Karandighi I, Karandighi II, Lahutara I, Lahutara II, SIMA Anandapur, Raniganj, Rasakhowa I and Rasakhowa II gram panchayats of Karandighi community development block. ^[4]

Karandighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 5 Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[4]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951*	Karandighi	Mohinuddin Mokhtar	Indian National Congress [5]
1957		Phanis Chandra Sinha	Indian National Congress [6]
1962		Phanis Chandra Sinha	Indian National Congress [7]
1967		H.S.Hussain	Praja Socialist Party [8]
1969		Suresh Chandra Sinha	All India Forward Bloc [9]
1971		Haji Sajjad Hussain	Indian National Congress [10]
1972		Haji Sajjad Hussain	Indian National Congress [11]
1977		Haji Sajjad Hussain	Indian National Congress [12]
1982		Suresh Chandra Singha	All India Forward Bloc [13]
1987		Suresh Chandra Singha	All India Forward Bloc [14]
1991		Haji Sajjad Hussain	Indian National Congress [15]
1996		Suresh Chandra Singha	All India Forward Bloc [16]
2001		Gokul Roy	All India Forward Bloc [17]
2006		Gokul Roy	All India Forward Bloc [18]
2011		Gokul Roy	All India Forward Bloc [19]
2016		Manodeb Singha	All India Trinamool Congress [19]
2021		Goutam Paul	All India Trinamool Congress

.* This area was in Bihar when elections were held

Election results

2021

In the 2021 elections, Goutam Paul of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival, Subhas Chandra Sinha of BJP.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Karandighi constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Goutam Paul	116,597	54.70	+25.26
	BJP	Subhas Chandra Sinha	79,968	37.52	+21.90
	AIFB	Md. Hafizul Iqbal	9,146	4.29	-23.40
	NOTA	None of the above	2,449	1.15	-1.21
	Independent	Benoy Kumar Das	1,269	0.60
	BSP	Harun Rashid	1,139	0.53	-2.04
	Independent	Subhas Chandra Sinha	693	0.33
	Independent	Abdullah	632	0.30
	Independent	Dinesh Chandra Singha	537	0.25
	AMB	Biswajit Sinha	271	0.13
	BMP	Santhapan Hasdak	231	0.11
	SUCI(C)	Shanti Lal Singha	207	0.10	-0.36
Turnout			213,136	81.17	-0.46
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

In the 2016 elections, Manodeb Singha of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival, Gokul Behari Roy of AIFB.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Karandighi constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Manodeb Singha	54,599	29.44
	AIFB	Gokul Behari Roy	51,367	27.69	-10.30
	Independent	Sk. Samsul	35,547	19.16
	BJP	Abdul Jalil	28,978	15.62	+12.94
	BSP	Nirod Bandhu Biswas	4,762	2.57	-0.33
	NOTA	None of the above	4,376	2.36
	SP	Abdul Mahid Hossain	2,030	1.09
	Independent	Sushanta Kumar Das	1,628	0.88
	Independent	Rehena Khatun	1,357	0.73
	SUCI(C)	Shanti Lal Singha	846	0.46
Turnout			185,490	81.63	-0.61
	AITC gain from AIFB		Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Gokul Behari Roy of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Subhas Goswami of Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Karandighi constituency ^{[19] [20]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIFB	Gokul Behari Roy	57,023	37.99	-7.08
	INC	Subhas Goswami	51,245	34.14	-8.13
	Independent	Md. Hafizul Iqbal	24,272	16.17
	BSP	Nirod Bandhu Biswas	4,355	2.90
	BJP	Arshad Alam	4,020	2.68
	Independent	Bablu Soren	2,437
	SUCI(C)	Muktar Ahamed	2,232
	JD(U)	Hem Ranjan Mandal	1,605
	Independent	Binoy Kumar Das	1,124
	Independent	Dinesh Chandra Singha	972
	Independent	Purna Chandra Singha	815
Turnout			150,100	82.24
	AIFB hold		Swing	1.05

1977–2006

In the 2006 ^[18] and 2001 ^[17] state assembly elections, Gokul Roy of Forward Bloc won the Karandighi assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Haji Sajjad Hussain of Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Suresh Chandra Singha of Forward Bloc defeated Haji Sajjad Hussain of Congress in 1996. ^[16] Haji Sajjad Hussain of Congress defeated Suresh Chandra Singha of Forward Bloc in 1991. ^[15] Suresh Chandra Singha of Forward Bloc defeated Haji Sajjad Hussain of Congress in 1987 ^[14] and 1982. ^[13] Haji Sajjad Hussain of Congress defeated Amarendra Nath Singha of Janata Party in 1977. ^{[12] [21]}

1951–1972

Haji Sajjad Hussain of Congress won in 1972 ^[11] and 1971. ^[10] Suresh Chandra Sinha of Forward Bloc won in 1969. ^[9] H.S.Hussain of PSP won in 1967. ^[8] Phanis Chandra Sinha of Congress won in 1962 ^[7] and 1957. ^[6] In independent India's first election in 1951 the area was part of Bihar and Mohinuddin Mokhtar of Congress won the Karandighi seat. ^[5]

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