Monteswar Assembly constituency

Monteswar
Constituency No. 263 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Monteswar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Lok Sabha constituency	Bardhaman–Durgapur
Established	1951
Total electors	191,654
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Siddiqullah Chowdhury
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Monteswar 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. 263 Monteswar assembly constituency covers Baghsan, Vagra Mulgram, Denur, Jamna, Kusumgram, Majhergram, Mamudpur I, Monteswar, Pipalan and Shushunia gram panchayats of Manteswar community development block and Barapalason I, Barapalason II, Bohar I, Bohar II, Bijur I, Bijur II and Satgachhia I gram panchayats of Memari II community development block. ^[1]

Monteswar assembly segment was earlier part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency). As per orders of Delimitation Commission it is part of No. 39 Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1951	Annada Prasad Mandal		Indian National Congress
1957	Bhakta Chandra Roy		Independent politician
1962	Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah		Communist Party of India
1967	N. C. Chaudhuri		Indian National Congress
1969	Kashinath Hazra Choudhury		Communist Party of India
1971
1972	Tuhin Kumar Samanta		Indian National Congress
1977	Hemanta Kumar Roy		Communist Party of India
1982	Hemanta Roy
1987
1991	Abu Ayesh Mondal
1996
2001
2006	Chaudhuri Md. Hedayetullah
2011
2016	Sajal Panja		All India Trinamool Congress
2016^	Saikat Panja
2021	Siddiqullah Chowdhury

• ^ by-election

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Monteswar ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Siddiqullah Chowdhury	105,460	50.44	−27.73
	BJP	Saikat Panja	73,655	35.24	+20.46
	CPI(M)	Anupam Ghosh	24,740	11.48	+23.53
	CPI(ML)L	Ansarul Aman Mondal (Babu)	1,877	0.90
	PDS	Nasimul Gani Sayed	1,693	0.81
	NOTA	None of the above	1,611	0.77
Turnout			209,036
	AITC hold		Swing

2016 by-election

2016 by-election: Monteswar, 19 November 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Saikat Panja	147,316	77.59	+33.48
	CPI(M)	Md. Osman Gani Sarkar	20,189	10.63	−33.11
	BJP	Biswajit Poddar	16,073	8.47	+0.37
	INC	Bulbul Ahammed Sekh	2,885	1.52	N/A
	CPI(ML)L	Ansarul Aman Mondal	1,463	0.77	N/A
	PDS	Sheikh Ekramul Hossain	778	0.41	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	1,168	0.62	−0.66
Majority			127,127	66.96	+66.59
Turnout			189,872	86.90	−0.39
Registered electors			218,480
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Monteswar ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sajal Panja	84,134	44.11
	CPI(M)	Chaudhuri Mohd. Hidayatullah	83,428	43.74
	BJP	Biswajit Poddar	15,452	8.10
	BSP	Khokan Das	2,644	1.38
	MPI	Jagabandhu Malik	1,437	0.75
	JDP	Premchand Soren	1,190	0.62
	NOTA	None of the above	2,445	1.28
Majority			706	0.37
Turnout			190,730	87.29
Registered electors			218,480
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Monteswar ^{[4] [5]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Choudhury Mohd. Hedaetullaha	81,822	47.24	−10.69
	AITC	Abu Ayesh Mondal	78,524	45.34	+6.51#
	People's Democratic Conference of India	Abdul Kased Shaikh	4,890
	BJP	Sakshi Gopal Ghosh	4,027
	JDP	Sunil Soren	2,036
	BSP	Sukumar Das	1,064
	CPI(ML)L	Annada Prasad Bhattacharyya	824
Turnout			173,187	90.36
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	-17.20#

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

1977-2006

Narayan Hazra Chowdhury of Trinamool Congress lost the Monteswar Assembly seat in 2006 defeated by Chaudhuri Md. Hedayatullah of CPI(M) . Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, 1996 and 1991, Abu Ayesh Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Narayan Hazara Choudhury of Trinamool Congress, Debabrata Roy of Congress and Biseswar Bhattacharya of Congress in the respective years. In 1982 and 1977, Hemanta Roy of CPI(M) defeated Tuhin Samanta of Congress. ^[6]

1951-1972

In 1972, Tuhin Samanta of Congress won the seat. In 1971 and 1969, Kashinath Hazra Choudhury of CPI(M) won the seat. N.C.Chaudhuri of Congress won the seat in 1967. Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah of CPI won the seat in 1962. Bhakta Chandra Roy (Independent) won the seat in 1957. Ananda Prasad Mondal of Congress won the seat in independent India's first election in 1951. ^[7]

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
2. "Monteswar Election Result 2021". Times Now News.com. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
3. "Monteswar". Election Results. India.com. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
4. "Monteswar". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
5. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). Monteswar. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
6. "278 – Manteswar Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
7. "Statistical Reports of Assembly Elections". General Election Results and Statistics. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 29 August 2010.