Kulti (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Kulti
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Kulti Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Kulti Kulti (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 23°46′N86°56′E / 23.767°N 86.933°E / 23.767; 86.933 Coordinates: 23°46′N86°56′E / 23.767°N 86.933°E / 23.767; 86.933
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Paschim Bardhaman
Constituency No.	282
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	40. Asansol
Electorate (year)	187,505 (2011)

Kulti (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 282 Kulti assembly constituency covers Kulti municipality. ^[1]

Kulti assembly segment is part of No. 40 Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

The United News of India (UNI) has been candid about the second largest city and urban agglomeration in West Bengal (the area covered by the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency) after Kolkata that is a hub of coal mining and railway activity bordering Jharkhand. Asansol has seen, it writes, “a sustained hold over it by the CPI(M) since 1984. Before that it was a tale of fluctuating fortune for the CPI(M) and the Congress… However, as the green surge swept Bengal to demolish the red bastion in 2011 Assembly elections… Moreover, as the Left still remained cornered in state politics, their neutralised voters are increasingly migrating to the BJP for a viable alternative.” ^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Kulti	Baidyanath Manadal and Joy Narayan Sarma	Indian National Congress [3]
1957		Benarashi Prosad Jha	Praja Socialist Party [4]
1962		Jaynarayan Sharma	Indian National Congress [5]
1967		Jaynarayan Sharma	Indian National Congress [6]
1969		Taraknath Chakraborty	Samyukta Socialist Party [7]
1971		Ramdas Banerjee	Indian National Congress [8]
1972		Ramdas Banerjee	Indian National Congress [9]
1977		Madhu Banerjee	Marxist Forward Bloc [10]
1982		Madhu Banerjee	Forward Bloc [11]
1987		Tuhin Samanta	Indian National Congress [12]
1991		Maniklal Acharya	Forward Bloc [13]
1996		Maniklal Acharya	Forward Bloc [14]
2001		Maniklal Acharya	Forward Bloc [15]
2006		Ujjal Chaterjee	All India Trinamool Congress [16] [17]
2011		Ujjal Chatterjee	All India Trinamool Congress [18]
2016		Ujjal Chatterjee	All India Trinamool Congress [19]
2021		Dr. Ajay Kumar Poddar	Bharatiya Janata Party [20]

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kulti ^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ajay Kumar Poddar	81,112	46.41	+63.98
	AITC	Ujjal Chatterjee	80,433	46.02	+16.65
	INC	Chandi Das Chatterjee	5,795	3.32	-86.49*
	NOTA	None of the above	3,553	2.03
	IND	Suraj Kewat	2,003	1.15
Majority			679	0.40
Turnout			1,74,942	69.51
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

*The Congress party had an alliance with CPI(M)

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kulti ^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ujjal Chatterjee	68,952	40.81
	BJP	Ajay Kumar Poddar	49,464	29.28
	INC	Abhijit Acharyya (Bappa)	42,895	25.39
	JMM	Shakil Ansari	1,896	1.12
	NOTA	None of the above	2,848	1.69
Majority			19,488	11.53
Turnout			1,68,994	73.36
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Ujjal Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Maniklal Acharya of AIFB.

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kulti ^{[21] [22] [23]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ujjal Chatterjee	77,610	56.09	-0.38#
	AIFB	Maniklal Acharya	49,044	35.45	-6.22
	BJP	Vivekananda Bhattacharya	5,666	4.10
	JD(U)	Subhas Singh	3,567	2.58
	JMM	Singrai Marandi	2,468	1.78
Majority			28,566	20.65
Turnout			1,38,470	73.66
	AITC hold		Swing	+5.94#

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

1977-2006

Ujjal Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress won the Kulti assembly seat in 2006. Maniklal Acharya of Forward Bloc won the seat in 2001. Prior to that the seat was won by Maniklal Acharjee of Forward Bloc in 1996 and 1991, Tuhin Samanta of Congress in 1987, Madhu Banerjee of Forward Bloc in 1982 and 1977. ^[24]

1951-1977

Ramdas Banerjee of Congress won in 1972 and 1971, Dr. Taraknath Chakrabarti of Samyukta Socialist Party won in 1969, Dr. Jai Narayan Sharma of Congress in 1967 and 1962, Benarasi Prasad Jha of PSP in 1957. In 1952, independent India's first election, Kulti was a twin member constituency and those elected were Jai Narayan Sharma and Baidyanath Mondal, both of Congress. ^[25]

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