Kolkata Port (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Kolkata Port
Vidhan Sabha Constituency
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Coordinates: 22°31′34″N88°18′56″E / 22.52611°N 88.31556°E / 22.52611; 88.31556 Coordinates: 22°31′34″N88°18′56″E / 22.52611°N 88.31556°E / 22.52611; 88.31556
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Kolkata
Constituency No	158
Lok Sabha constituency	23. Kolkata Dakshin
Electoral system	First past the post
Government
• Incumbent MLA	Firhad Hakim
• Political Party	AITC

Kolkata Port (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 158 Kolkata Port (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 133, 134 and 135 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. ^[1]

Kolkata Port (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency) . ^[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year		Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
	1952	S.M. Abdullah	Indian National Congress [2]
	1957	Shaikh Abdullah Farooquie	Communist Party of India [3]
	1962	S.M. Abdullah	Indian National Congress [4] [5]
	1967
	1969	Arun Sen	Communist Party of India [6]
	1971	S.M. Abdullah	Indian National Congress [7]
	1972	Chhedilal Singh	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8] [9]
	1977
	1982	Samsuzzoha	Indian National Congress [10] [11] [12]
	1987	Fazle Azim Molla
	1991
	1996	Mohammed Amin	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13] [14]
	2001
	2006	Abdul Khaleque Molla	Indian National Congress [15]
Constituency renamed from Garden Reach to Kolkata Port
	2011	Firhad Hakim	All India Trinamool Congress [16]
	2016
	2021

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kolkata Port

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Firhad Hakim	1,05,543	69.23
	BJP	Awadh Kishore Gupta	36,989	24.26
	INC	Md. Muktar	5,590	3.67
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,360	0.89
	IND	Sanjay Dey	1,139	0.75
Majority			68,554	44.97
Turnout			1,52,513	64.64
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kolkata Port

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Firhad Hakim	73,459	53.21	+4.58
	INC	Rakesh Singh	46,911	33.98	New
	BJP	Awadh Kishore Gupta	11,700	8.48	+6.42
	None of the Above	None of the Above	2,164	1.57	New
	IND	Vivek Kumar Thakur	1,019	0.74
Majority			26,548	19.23	+0.17
Turnout			1,38,050	63.42	-2.49
	AITC hold		Swing	+4.58

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kolkata Port

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Firhad Hakim	63,866	48.63
	AIFB	Moinuddin Sams	38,833	29.57
	IND	Ram Pyare Ram	22,131	16.85
	BJP	Raj Kumari Shaw	2,699	2.06
	IND	Sanjay Lal Das	2,046	1.56
Majority			25,033	19.06
Turnout			1,31,314	65.91
	AITC win

Ram Pyare Ram, contesting as an independent, was a rebel INC candidate. ^[17]

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
2. "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
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4. "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
5. "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
6. "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
7. "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
8. "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
9. "General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
10. "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
11. "General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
12. "General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
13. "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
14. "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
15. "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
16. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
17. "Fair-&-free chant in red and green camps - Congress suspends six more rebel candidates". The Telegraph, 19 April 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2011.