Panchla Assembly constituency

Panchla
Constituency No. 175 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Panchla Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Howrah
LS constituency	Howrah
Established	1962
Total electors	206,646
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Gulshan Mallick
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Panchla Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 175 Panchla Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Panchla community development block and Gobindapur, Islampur, Laskarpur, Polegustia gram panchayats of Jagatballavpur community development block. ^[1]

Panchla Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1] Panchla was earlier part of Sreerampur (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1962	Panchla	Apurba Lal Mazumdar	All India Forward Bloc [3]
1967		A.P.Mukhopadhyay	Indian National Congress [4]
1969		Kanai Lal Bhattacharya	All India Forward Bloc [5]
1971		Ashoke Kumar Ghose	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1972		Sk Anwar Ali	Indian National Congress [7]
1977		Santosh Kumar Das	All India Forward Bloc [8]
1982		Anwar Ali Sheikh	Indian National Congress [9]
1987		Sailen Mondal	All India Forward Bloc [10]
1991		Sailen Mondal	All India Forward Bloc [11]
1996		Gulshan Mullick	Indian National Congress [12]
2001		Sailen Mondal	All India Forward Bloc [13]
2006		Doli Roy	All India Forward Bloc [14]
2011		Gulshan Mallick	All India Trinamool Congress [15]
2016		Gulshan Mallick	All India Trinamool Congress [15]
2021		Gulshan Mallick	All India Trinamool Congress [15]

Election results

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Panchla constituency ^{[15] [16]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Gulshan Mallick	76,628	45.76	−6.54#
	AIFB	Doli Roy	64,510	38.53	−9.27
	Independent	Mohit Lal Ghanti	14,487
	BJP	Shyamal Kumar Adak	7,523
	BSP	Sakirul Islam Sekh	1,870
	Independent	Shyamal Mondal	1,637
	People’s Democratic Conference of India	Mohiuddin Mollah	785
Turnout			167,440	81.03
	AITC gain from AIFB		Swing	2.83#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, ^[14] Doli Roy of Forward Bloc won the Panchla assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Abul Kassem Molla of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc defeated Sk. Nazrul Islam of Trinamool Congress in 2001. ^[13] Gulshan Mullick of Congress defeated Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc in 1996. ^[12] Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc defeated Prafulla Santra of Congress in 1991, ^[11] and Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress in 1987. ^[10] Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress defeated Santosh Kumar Das of Forward Bloc in 1982. ^[9] Santosh Kumar Das of Forward Bloc defeated Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress in 1977. ^{[8] [17]}

1962-1972

Sk Anwar Ali of Congress won in 1972. ^[7] Asoke Kumar Ghosh of CPI(M) won in 1971. ^[6] Kanai Lal Bhattacharya of Forward Bloc won in 1969. ^[5] A.P.Mukhopadhyay of Congress won in 1967. ^[4] Apurba Lal Majumdar of Forward Bloc won in 1962. ^[3] The Panchla seat did not exist prior to that.

References

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14. "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
15. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
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17. "168 - Panchla Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 November 2010.