Maheshtala Assembly constituency

Maheshtala
Constituency No. 155 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Maheshtala Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	South 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Diamond Harbour
Established	1951
Total electors	270,858
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Dulal Chandra Das
Party	AITC
Alliance	AITC +
Elected year	2021

Maheshtala Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian State of West Bengal.

Overview

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Maheshtala Assembly constituency is composed of the following: ^[1]

• Ward Nos. 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 of Maheshtala Municipality.

Maheshtala Assembly constituency is a part of No. 21 Diamond Harbour (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1952	Sudhir Chandra Bhandari		Communist Party of India
1957
1962	Ahammad Ali Mufti		Indian National Congress
1967	Sudhir Chandra Bhandari		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1969
1971
1972	Bhupen Bijali		Indian National Congress
1977	Sudhir Chandra Bhandari		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982	Mir Abdus Sayeed
1987	Abul Basar
1991
1996	Mursalin Molla
2001
2006
2011	Kasturi Das		Trinamool Congress
2016
2018^	Dulal Chandra Das
2021

• ^ denotes by-election

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Maheshtala

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dulal Chandra Das	124,008	56.38	2.75
	BJP	Umesh Das	66,059	30.03	13.13
	CPI(M)	Pravat Chowdhury	25,276	11.49	0.96
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,049	0.93	0.57
Majority			57,949	26.35	15.88
Turnout			2,19,969	81.17	8.44
	AITC hold		Swing

2018 by-election

West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-election, 2018: Maheshtala ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dulal Chandra Das	104,818	59.13	11.29
	BJP	Sujit Kumar Ghosh	42,053	16.90	9.29
	CPI(M)	Pravat Chowdhury	30,384	12.45	29.03
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,742	1.50	0.11
Majority			62,765	42.23	35.87
Turnout			1,81,002	72.73	8.16
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Maheshtala

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Kasturi Das	93,675	47.84	4.66
	CPI(M)	Samik Lahiri	81,223	41.48	2.81
	BJP	Kartick Chandra Ghosh	14,909	7.61	5.51
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,144	1.61
Majority			12,452	6.36	7.47
Turnout			1,95,827	80.89	0.82
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Maheshtala ^{[3] [4]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Kasturi Das	92,211	52.50
	CPI(M)	Sheikh Mohammed Israil	67,928	38.67
	Independent	Ramani Naskar	7,971	4.54
	BJP	Sisir Kumar Mukherjee	3,689	2.10
	IUML	Sagirauddin Laskar	1,882	1.07
	PDS	Debashish Bose	1,168	0.66
	Independent	Monoranjan Naskar	807	0.46
Majority			24,283	13.83
Turnout			1,75,656	81.71
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

Legislative Assembly Elections 1977-2006

In 2006, 2001 and 1996, Mursalin Molla of CPI(M) won the Maheshtala Assembly constituency defeating his nearest rivals Dulal Das of INC in 2006, ^[5] Biman Banerjee of AITC in 2001 ^[6] and Gouranga Mukherjee of INC in 1996. ^[7] Abul Basar of CPI(M) defeated Malay Chowdhury of INC in 1991 ^[8] and Habibur Rahman of INC in 1987. ^[9] Mir Abdus Sayeed of CPI(M) defeated Dilip Ghose, Independent politician, in 1982. ^[10] Sudhir Chandra Bhandari of CPI(M) defeated Mali Safiuddin of Janata Party in 1977. ^{[11] [12]}

Legislative Assembly Elections 1952-1972

Bhupen Bijali of INC won in 1972. ^[13] Sudhir Chandra Bhandari of CPI(M) won in 1971, ^[14] 1969 ^[15] and 1967. ^[16] Ahammad Ali Mufti of INC won in 1962. ^[17] Sudhir Chandra Bhandari of CPI won in 1957 ^[18] and 1952. ^[19]

References

Citations

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
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