Nabagram Assembly constituency

For disambiguation, see Nabagram.

Nabagram
Constituency No. 65 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Nabagram Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Murshidabad
LS constituency	Jangipur
Established	1967
Total electors	251,378
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kanai Chandra Mondal
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Nabagram is an assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 65 Nabagram Assembly constituency (SC) covers Nabagram community development block, and Niyallishpara Goaljan, Radharghat I, Radharghat II and Sahajadpur gram panchayats of Berhampore community development block. ^[1]

Nabagram Assembly constituency is part of No. 9 Jangipur (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1967	Nabagram	A.K. Bakshi	Indian National Congress [2]
1969		Birendra Narayan Roy	Independent [3]
1971 [4]
1972		Aditya Charan Dutta	Indian National Congress [5]
1977		Birendra Narayan Ray	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1982 [7]
1987 [8]
1991		Sisir Kumar Sarkar [9]
1996		Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	Indian National Congress [10]
2000^		Nripen Chaudhuri	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
2001 [12]
2006		Mukul Mondal [13]
2011		Kanai Chandra Mondal [14]
2016
2021			Trinamool Congress

• ^ denotes by-election

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nabagram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Kanai Chandra Mondal	100,455	48.18	14.55
	BJP	Mohan Haldar	64,922	31.14	23.94
	CPI(M)	Kripalini Ghosh	39,129	18.77	36.01
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,629	1.26	0.52
	SUCI(C)	Barun Mandal	1,381	0.66	0.03
Majority			35,533	17.04	4.11
Turnout			2,08,516	82.95	1.39
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2016

In the 2016 assembly election, Kanai Chandra Mandol of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Dilip Saha of Trinamool Congress.

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nabagram ^{[14] [15]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Kanai Chandra Mondal	99,545	55.80
	AITC	Dilip Saha	61,102	34.20
	BJP	Susanta Marjit	13,084	7.30
	SP	Radha Madhab Mandal	2,372	1.30
	WPOI	Amit Mehena	1,232	0.70
	SUCI(C)	Babun Mandal	1,143	0.60
Majority			38,443
Turnout			1,78,478	87.65
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	4.34

.# Swing calculated on Congress+CPIM vote percentages taken together in 2016.

2011

In the 2011 assembly election, Kanai Mondol of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Prabal Sarkar of Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Nabagram (SC) constituency ^{[14] [16]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Kanai Chandra Mondal	78,703	48.98	−3.20
	INC	Prabal Sarkar	71,147	44.27	+1.14#
	BJP	Dilip Halder	4,489	2.05
	SDPI	Gurupada Das	3,298
	Independent	Anil Mondal	3,057
Turnout			160,694	87.65
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	-4.34#

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

2006

In the 2006 assembly election, Mukul Mondal of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Rathin Ghosh of Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Nabagram (SC) constituency ^{[14] [17]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Mukul Mondal	74,594	52.18
	INC	Rathin Ghosh	52,018	43.13
	AITC	Nirmal Kumar Dutta	9,400	2.05
	Independent	Rakhahari Mondal	1,744
	Independent	Barun Mondal	1,638
	Independent	Nazimul Islam	1,533
	Independent	Gadadhar Mondal	1,470
	Independent	Anil Mondal	3,057
Turnout			142,397	87.65
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	-4.34#

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

2001

In the 2001 assembly election, Nripen Chaudhuri of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Arit Mazumder of Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2001: Nabagram constituency ^{[14] [18]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Nripen Chaudhuri	65,609	49.46%
	INC	Arit Mazumder	57,957	43.69%
	BJP	Abhiram Murmu	5,016	3.78%
	Independent	Nipen Choudhury	1,714	1.29%
	Independent	Sukumar Marjit	1,367	1.03%
	Independent	Shib Sankar Hazra	990	0.75%
Turnout			132,653	80.86%
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	-4.34#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2001.

2000 by-election

A by-election was held on 17 February 2000 following the resignation of the sitting MLA, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury who was elected as MP In Parliament from Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency).

West Bengal state assembly bye election, 2000: Nabagram constituency ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Nripen Chaudhuri	62,648	49.72
	INC	Shyamal Ray	54,339	43.13
	AITC	Nirmal Kumar Dutta	8,707	6.91
	Independent	Pranab Ghosh	184	0.14
	Independent	Debasish Sarkar	122	0.10
Majority			8,309	6.59
Turnout			1,27,186
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing	+21.27

1996

In the 1996 election, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury of Congress defeated his nearest rival Muzaffar Hossain of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 1996: Nabagram constituency ^{[10] [19]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	76,852	55.84%
	CPI(M)	Muzaffar Hossain	56,523	41.07%
	BJP	Alauddin Shaikh	2,671	1.94%
	Shiv Sena	Anath Bandhu Das	898	0.65%
	BSP	Soumen Das	478	0.35%
	JD(U)	Bankim Chandra Ghosh	208	0.15%
Majority			20,329
Turnout			1,37,630	89.71%
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

1977–2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, ^[13] Mukul Mondal of CPI(M) won the Nabagram assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Rathin Ghosh of Congress. Nripen Chaudhuri of CPI(M) defeated Arit Majumdar of Congress in 2001. ^[12] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2000 by-elections, Nripen Chaudhuri of CPI(M) defeated Shyamal Ray of Congress. The by-election was necessitated by the election of sitting MLA, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was Elected to Indian Parliament from Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency).Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury of Congress defeated Muzaffar Hossain of CPI(M) in 1996. ^[10] Sisir Kumar Sarkar of CPI(M) defeated Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury of Congress in 1991. ^[9] Birendra Narayan Ray of CPI(M) defeated Pradip Majumdar of Congress in 1987 ^[8] and 1982, ^[7] and Durgapada Sinha of Janata Party in 1977. ^{[6] [20]} Later Mr. Pradip Majumdar became the Chairman of Berhampore Municipality, West Bengal. He fought the elections and emerged successfully to become the head of Berhampore Municipality.

1967–1972

Aditya Charan Dutta of Congress won in 1972. ^[5] Birendra Narayan Roy, Independent, won in 1971 ^[4] and 1969. ^[3] A.K.Bakshi of Congress won in 1967. ^[2] The Nabagram seat was not there prior to that.

References

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