Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency

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Kharagpur Sadar
Constituency No. 224 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency
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Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State West Bengal
District Paschim Medinipur
Lok Sabha constituency Medinipur
Established1951
Total electors194,006
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party  BJP
Alliance  NDA
Elected year 2021

Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 224 Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kharagpur municipality and Kharagpur Railway Settlement of Kharagpur I community development block. [1]

Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency is part of No. 34 Medinipur (Lok Sabha constituency). [1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearMemberParty
1957 Narayan Choubey Communist Party of India
1962
1967
1969 Gyan Singh Sohanpal Indian National Congress
1971
1972
1977 Sudhir Das Sharma Janata Party
1982 Gyan Singh Sohanpal Indian National Congress
1987
1991
1996
2001
2006
2011
2016 Dilip Ghosh Bharatiya Janata Party
2019^ Pradip Sarkar Trinamool Congress
2021 Hiran Chatterjee Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kharagpur Sadar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Hiran Chatterjee 79,607 46.45 +12.43
AITC Pradip Sarkar 75,83644.25−3.41
INC Reeta Sharma10,7056.3−7.98
NOTA None of the above 2,3921.54+0.43
HUMPD. Madhusudan Rao1,7010.99
SUCI(C) Suranjan Mahapatra8070.47
Majority 3,7712.23
Turnout 1,71,46073.06
BJP gain from AITC Swing

2019 Bypoll

A bye- poll was necessitated due to the election of the incumbent MLA, Dilip Ghosh, to the Lok Sabha.

Bye-election, 2019: Kharagpur Sadar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Pradip Sarkar 72,89347.66+25.93
BJP Prem Chandra Jha52,04034.02−5.27
INC Chittaranjan Mandal22,63114.28−7.45
NOTA None of the above 1,7051.11−0.41
IND Mata Prasad Gupta1,2730.83+0.22
Majority 20,85313.64+9.6
Turnout 1,52,95968.00
AITC gain from BJP Swing

2016 Vidhan Sabha

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kharagpur Sadar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Dilip Ghosh 61,446 39.29 Increase2.svg32.50
INC Gyan Singh Sohanpal 55,13735.25Decrease2.svg19.81
AITC Rama Prasad Tewary34,08621.73N/A
SUCI(C) Suranjan Mahapatra1,3080.83Decrease2.svg0.28
BSP Sk. Asgar Ali1,0580.67Increase2.svg0.01
NOTA None of the above2,3921.52N/A
Majority 6,3094.04Decrease2.svg19.5
Turnout 1,56,48771.71
BJP gain from INC Swing Increase2.svg26.16

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kharagpur Sadar [2] [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Gyan Singh Sohanpal 75,42555.54
CPI(M) Anil Kumar Das43,05631.43
BJP Prem Chandra Jha9,3036.79
IND Satya Deo Sharma5,1913.78
SUCI(C) Suranjan Mahapatra1,5251.11
Majority 32,36923.63
Turnout 1,38,13470.78
INC hold Swing #

.# CPI(M) did not contest this seat in 2006.

1977-2006

Gyan Singh Sohanpal of Congress won the Kharagpur Town assembly seat for six times in a row from 1982 to 2006 (for earlier victories see below), defeating Prem Chandra Jha of RJD in 2006, Lalji Pandey of CPI(M) in 2001, Kalidas Nayek of CPI(M) in 1996 and 1991, and Jatindra Mitra of CPI(M) in 1987 and 1982. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sudhir Das Sharma of Janata Party defeated Jatindra Mitra of CPI(M) in 1977. [4]

1951-1972

Gyan Singh Sohanpal of Congress won in 1972, 1971 and 1969. Narayan Choubey of CPI won in 1967, 1962 and 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, Kharagpur had a single seat, which was won by Moulana Muhammad Momtaz of Congress. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  2. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Kharagpur Sadar. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  3. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). Kharagpur Sadar. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  4. "224 - Kharagpur Town Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
  5. "Statistical Reports of Elections". General Election Results and Statistics. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2010.