Karimpur Assembly constituency

Karimpur
Constituency No. 77 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Karimpur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Nadia
Lok Sabha constituency	Murshidabad
Established	1951
Total electors	251,039
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Bimalendu Sinha Roy
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Karimpur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

In line with the Delimitation Commission, No. 77 Karimpur Assembly constituency is composed of Karimpur I community development block and Dhoradaha I, Dhoradaha II, Murutia, Natidanga I, Natidanga II and Rahamatpur gram panchayats of Karimpur II CD Block. ^[1]

Karimpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 11 Murshidabad Lok Sabha constituency. ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1951	Haripada Chattopadhyay		Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
1957	Bijoy Lal Chattopadhyay		Indian National Congress
1962	Smarajit Bandopadhyay
1967	Nalinaksha Sanyal		Bangla Congress
1969			Indian National Congress
1971	Samarendra Nath Sanyal		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1972	Arabinda Mandal		Indian National Congress
1977	Samarendra Nath Sanyal		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982	Chitta Ranjan Biswas
1987
1991
1996
2001	Prafulla Kumar Bhowmick
2006
2011	Samarendranath Ghosh
2016	Mahua Moitra		All India Trinamool Congress
2019^	Bimalendu Sinha Roy
2021

• ^ denotes by-election

Election results

1951–1972

Arabinda Mandal of Congress won in 1972. ^[2] Samarendra Nath Sanyal of CPI(M) won in 1971. ^[3] Nalinaksha Sanyal of Bangla Congress / Congress won in 1969 ^[4] and 1967. ^[5] Samarjit Bandopadhyay of Congress won in 1962. ^[6] Bijoy Lal Chattopadhyay of Congress won in 1957. ^[7] In independent India's first election in 1951, Haripada Chatterjee of KMPP won the Karimpur seat. ^[8]

1977-2006

In the 2006 ^[9] and 2001 ^[10] state assembly elections, Prafulla Kumar Bhowmick of CPI(M) won the Karimpur assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Arabinda Mondal of Congress and Chira Ranjan Mandal of Trinamool Congress respectively. Contests in most years were multi-cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Chitta Ranjan Biswas of CPI(M) defeated Chira Ranjan Mandal of Congress in 1996 ^[11] and 1991, ^[12] and Arabinda Mandal of Congress in 1987 ^[13] and 1982. ^[14] Samarendra Nath Sanyal of CPI(M) defeated Arabinda Mandal of Congress in 1977. ^{[15] [16]}

2011

In the 2011 election, Samarendranath Ghosh of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) defeated his nearest rival Dr. Ramen Sarkar of All India Trinamool Congress

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Karimpur constituency ^{[17] [18]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Samarendranath Ghosh	82,244	46.17	−1.01
	AITC	Dr. Ramen Sarkar	77,159	43.32	−13.12
	BJP	Indrajit Mondal	8,098	4.55
	Independent	Rajib Sekh	3,626
	BSP	Swapan Kumar Biswas	2,628
	Independent	Bikash Chandra Biswas	2,054
	IUML	Rejaul Sekh	1,446
	People's Democratic Conference of India	Abdulla Biswas	86
Turnout			178,118	90.66

Rajib Sekh, contesting as an independent candidate, was a rebel Congress candidate. ^[19]

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

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Karimpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mahua Moitra	90,989	45.24	+1.92
	CPI(M)	Samarendranath Ghosh	75,000	37.29	−8.88
	BJP	Subhasis Bhattacharya	23,302	11.59	+7.04
	SS	Mahitosh Sarkar	4,554	2.26	N/A
	WPOI	Sahabuddin Mandal	2,140	1.06	N/A
	BSP	Jitendra Nath Halder	1,769	0.88	−0.60
	SUCI(C)	Azad Rahaman	1,104	0.55	N/A
	IUML	Rejaul Sekh	799	0.40	−0.41
	NOTA	None of the above	1,449	0.72	N/A
Majority			15,989	7.59
Turnout			2,01,106	88.53	−2.13
Registered electors			2,27,166

2019

Bye-election, 2019: Karimpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Bimalendu Sinha Roy	1,03,278	50.43	+5.19
	BJP	Jayprakash Majumdar	79,368	38.75	+27.16
	CPI(M)	Golam Rabbi	18,627	9.09	−28.20
	NOTA	None of the above	1,568	0.77	+0.05
Majority			23,910	11.68	+4.09
Turnout			2,04,807	84.72	−4.00
Registered electors			2,40,000

Due to Mahua Moitra resignation as MLA, By poll was held. ^[20] Bimalendu Sinha Roy won by 24,119 votes ^[21]

2021

West Bengal legislative Assembly elections, 2021: Karimpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Bimalendu Sinha Roy	1,10,911
	BJP	Samarendra Nath Ghosh	87,336
	CPI(M)	Pravas Majumdar	17,185
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority			23,575
Turnout
Registered electors

References

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19. The Rebel Candidates in the Fray, The Telegraph (print edition) 23 April 2011
20. "TMC, BJP gear up for bypoll challenge next". Hindustan Times. 30 October 2019.
21. "Karimpur (West Bengal) Assembly Bye-Election Results: TMC wins by 24,119 votes". 28 November 2019.