Nabadwip Assembly constituency

Nabadwip
Constituency No. 84 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Nabadwip Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Nadia
LS constituency	Ranaghat
Established	1951
Total electors	243,159
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Pundarikakhsa Saha
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Nabadwip Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 84 Nabadwip Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Nabadwip municipality, Nabadwip community development block, and Bhaluka and Joania gram panchayats of Krishnanagar I community development block. ^[1]

Nabadwip Assembly constituency is part of No. 13 Ranaghat (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1] It was earlier part of Nabadwip (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Nabadwip	Niranjan Modak	Indian National Congress [3]
1957		Niranjan Modak	Indian National Congress [4]
1962		Debi Prasad Basu	Communist Party of India [5]
1967		Sachindra Mohan Nandy	Indian National Congress [6]
1969		Sachindra Mohan Nandy	Indian National Congress [7]
1971		Debi Prasad Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
1972		Radha Raman Saha	Indian National Congress [9]
1977		Debi Prosad Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1982		Debi Prosad Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
1987		Biswanath Mitra	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
1991		Biswanath Mitra	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
1996		Biswanath Mitra	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
2001		Pundarikakhsa Saha	All India Trinamool Congress [15]
2006		Pundarikaksha Saha	All India Trinamool Congress [16]
2011		Pundarikaksha Saha	All India Trinamool Congress [17]
2016		Pundarikaksha Saha	All India Trinamool Congress
2021		Pundarikaksha Saha	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nabadwip ^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Pundarikakhsa Saha	102,170	48.52	4.58
	BJP	Siddartha Naskar	83599	39.70	30.60
	CPI(M)	Swarnendu Singha	18540	8.80
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Pundarkshya Saha of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Sumit Biswas of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Nabadwip constituency ^{[17] [19]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Pundarikakhsa Saha	94,117	53.45	−2.53#
	CPI(M)	Sumit Biswas	71,282	40.49	−3.64
	BJP	Pinki Agarwal	7,303	4.15
	CPI(ML)L	Parikshit Paul	336
Turnout			176,069	88.06
	AITC hold		Swing	1.11

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. On its own the Trinamool Congress vote percentage was +2.35% and the swing was 5.99%.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, ^[16] Pundarikhsya Saha of Trinamool Congress won the Nabadwip assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Chhaya Sen Sharma of CPI (M). Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, ^[15] Pundarikhsya Saha of Trinamool Congress defeated Jamuna Brahmachari of CPI (M). In 1996, ^[14] Biswanath Mitra of CPI (M) defeated Kartick Chatterjee of Congress. In 1991 ^[13] and 1987 ^[12] Biswanath Mitra of CPI(M) defeated Satish Debnath of Congress. In 1982 ^[11] and 1977 Debi Prosad Basu of CPI (M) defeated Sasthi Bhusan Pal of Congress. ^{[10] [20]}

1951–1972

Radha Raman Saha of Congress won in 1972. ^[9] Debi Prasad Basu of CPI(M) won in 1971. ^[8] Sachindra Mohan Nandy of Congress won in 1969 ^[7] and 1967. ^[6] Debi Prasad Basu of CPI won in 1962. ^[5] In 1957 ^[4] and in independent India's first election in 1951, Niranjan Modak of Congress won the Nabadwip seat. ^[3]

References

Citations

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