Katwa Assembly constituency

Katwa
Constituency No. 270 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Katwa Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Lok Sabha constituency	Bardhaman Purba
Established	1951
Total electors	211,459
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rabindranath Chatterjee
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Katwa Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 270 Katwa assembly constituency covers Katwa municipality, Dainhat municipality, Katwa II community development block and Khajurdihi, Sudpur, Karajgram and Goai gram panchayats of Katwa I CD Block. ^[1]

Katwa assembly segment was earlier part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency). As per orders of Delimitation Commission it is part of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1951	Subodh Chowdhury		Communist Party of India
1957	Tarapada Chaudhuri		Indian National Congress
1962	Subodh Chowdhury		Communist Party of India
1967			Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1969	Nityananda Thakur		Indian National Congress
1971	Haramohan Sinha		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1972	Subrata Mukherjee		Indian National Congress
1977	Haramohan Sinha		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982
1987	Anjan Chatterjee
1991
1996	Rabindranath Chatterjee		Indian National Congress
2001
2006
2011
2016			All India Trinamool Congress
2021

Election results

2026

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Katwa

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC
	BJP
	LF
	INC
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Katwa ^{[2] [3]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rabindranath Chatterjee	107,894	48.07	2.77
	BJP	Shyama Majumdar	98,739	43.99	36.59
	INC	Prabir Ganguli	12,976	5.78	39.02
	BSP	Paritosh Chair	1,598	0.71	0.09
	SUCI(C)	Apurba Chakraborty	1,472	0.66
	NOTA	None of the above	1,780	0.79
Turnout			224,459
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Katwa ^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rabindranath Chatterjee	91,486	45.30	+45.30
	INC	Shyama Majumdar	90,578	44.80	−7.73
	BJP	Anil Dutta	14,939	7.40
	PDS	Krishnadas Saha	1,800	0.90
	SUCI(C)	Apurba Chakraborty	1,690	0.80
	BSP	Sriram Golder	1,614	0.80
Turnout			202,110	84.4%
	AITC gain from INC		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Katwa ^{[4] [9] [10]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Rabindranath Chatterjee	97,951	52.53	+4.12
	CPI(M)	Sudipta Bagchi	70,426	37.77	−7.23
	BJP	Anil Dutta	7,036	3.77
	People's Democratic Conference of India	Mohammad Nasiruddin	3,512
	SUCI(C)	Apurba Chakraborty	2,125
	Independent	Chandra Chur Sarkar	1,960
	BSP	Ranu Goldar	1,826
	Independent	Kishore Kumar Ghosh	1,642
Turnout			186,478	88.19
	INC hold		Swing	+11.35

1977-2006

Rabindranath Chatterjee of Congress won the Katwa assembly seat in 2006, 2001, 1996 defeating his nearest rivals, Sudipta Bagchi, Kanak Kanti Goswami and Anjan Chatterjee, all of CPI(M) in the respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Anjan Chatterjee of CPI(M) won the seat in 1991 and 1987 defeating Rabindranath Chatterjee of Congress. Haramohan Sinha of CPI(M) won the seat in 1982 and 1977 defeating Subrata Mukherjee of Congress and Nityananda Thakur of Janata Party in the respective years. ^[11]

1951-1972

Subrata Mukherjee of Congress won the Katwa assembly seat in 1972. Haramohan Sinha of CPI (M) won it in 1971. Nityananda Thakur of Congress won it in 1969. Subodh Chowdhury of CPI (M) won it in 1967. Subodh Chowdhury, representing CPI, won the seat in 1962. Tarapada Cahudhuri of Congress won it in 1957. Subodh Chowdhury, representing CPI, won the seat in 1951. ^[12]

References

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