Pandua (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Pandua
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Pandua Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Pandua Pandua (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 23°05′00″N88°17′00″E / 23.08333°N 88.28333°E / 23.08333; 88.28333 Coordinates: 23°05′00″N88°17′00″E / 23.08333°N 88.28333°E / 23.08333; 88.28333
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly
Constituency No.	192
MLA	Dr. Ratna De Nag
Lok Sabha constituency	28. Hooghly
Last Election	2021

Pandua (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 192 Pandua (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Pandua community development block. ^[1]

Pandua (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1] It was earlier part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1962	Pandua	Radhanath Das	Indian National Congress [2]
1967		R.Kundu	Indian National Congress [3]
1969		Deb Narayan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [4]
1971		Deb Narayan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [5]
1972		Sailendra Chattopadhyay	Indian National Congress [6]
1977		Deb Narayan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1982		Deb Narayan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
1987		Deb Narayan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [9]
1991		Deb Narayan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1996		Sk. Majed Ali	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
2001		Sk. Majed Ali	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
2006		Sk. Majed Ali	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
2011		Sk. Amzad Hossain	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
2016		Sk. Amzad Hossain	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021		Dr. Ratna De (Nag)	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Pandua

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dr.Ratna De (Nag)	1,02,874	45.99	+2.97
	BJP	Partha Sharma	71,016	31.75	+23.59
	CPI (M)	Sk.Amzad Hossain	41,474	18.54	-25.14
	BSP	Mina Roy	1650	0.74	-0.14
	LJP	Sk. Nasiruddin	1244	0.56
	SUCI(C)	Paban Mazumder	1982	0.89
	API	Balai Saren	1260	0.56
	NOTA	NOTA	2164	0.97	-0.33
Turnout			2,23,664	82.39
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Pandua

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	Sk. Amzad Hossain	91,489	43.68	−2.96
	AITC	Syed Rahim Nabi	90,097	43.02	−3.40
	BJP	Ashok Bhattacharya	17,081	8.16	+5.25
	Independent	Sk. Amjad Hossain	2477	1.18	+0.79
	PDS	Abdul Goni Sarkar	1947	0.93
	BSP	Lakshminarayan Bauldas	1852	0.88	+0.12
	CPI(ML)L	Niranjan Bag	1759	0.84	-1.34
	NOTA	NOTA	2731	1.30
Turnout			2,09,433	85.78
	CPI (M) hold		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Pandua constituency ^{[14] [15]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	Sk.Amzad Hossain	84,832	46.64	−13.96
	AITC	Nargis Begum	84,433	46.42	+15.38
	BJP	Debaprasad Chakraborty	5,297	2.91
	CPI(ML)L	Subhashish Chattopadhyay	3,956	2.18
	BSP	Lakshminarayan Bauldas	1,379	0.76
	JDP	Kalidasi Hembram	1,279
	Independent	Dilip Kumar Talukdar Chowdhury	704	0.39
Turnout			181,878	87.82
	CPI (M) hold		Swing	−29.36

1977–2021

Trinamool Congress candidate Dr.Ratna De Nag won the Pandua Assembly constituency by defeating her nearest rivals Partha Sharma of Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal State Assembly Election 2021.^{[ citation needed ]} In the West Bengal State Assembly Election 2016 ^[14] and 2011 ^[14] state assembly elections Sk Amjad Hossain of CPI(M) won the Pandua assembly seat, defeating his nearest rivals Sayed Rahim Nabi of Trinamool Congress, Nargis Begam of Trinamool Congress in the respective years.2006 ^[13] 2001 ^[12] and 1996 ^[11] state assembly elections Sk Majed Ali of CPI (M) won the Pandua assembly seat, defeating his nearest rivals Alam Kazi Rowshan of Trinamool Congress, Sailen Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress and Madhusudan Banerjee of Congress, in the respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Deb Narayan Chakraborty of CPI (M) won the seat in 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977 defeating his nearest rivals, Hrishikesh Ghosh of Congress in 1991 ^[10] and 1987, ^[9] Haren Singha Roy of Congress in 1982 ^[8] and Sailendra Chattopadhya of Congress in 1977. ^{[7] [16]}

1962–1972

Sailendra Chattopadhyay of Congress won in 1972. ^[6] Debnarayan Chakraborty of CPI(M) won in 1971 ^[5] and 1969. ^[4] R.Kundu of Congress won in 1967. ^[3] Radha Nath Das of Congress won in 1962. ^[2] Prior to that the Pandua seat did not exist.

References

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