Purbasthali Uttar

Purbasthali Uttar
Vidhan Sabha constituency
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Coordinates: 23°28′04″N88°19′46″E / 23.46778°N 88.32944°E / 23.46778; 88.32944 Coordinates: 23°28′04″N88°19′46″E / 23.46778°N 88.32944°E / 23.46778; 88.32944
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Constituency No.	269
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	38. Bardhaman Purba (SC)
Electorate (year)	188,997 (2011)

Purbasthali Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, Purbasthali and Nadanghat constituencies ceased to exist and in its place Purbasthali now has two assembly constituencies. No. 268 Purbasthali Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Nandai, Kankuria, Begpur, Atghoria Simlan, Dhatrigram and Sultanpur gram panchayats of Kalna I community development block and Nasratpur, Samudragarh, Nagpur, Sreerampur and Nadanghat gram panchayats of Purbasthali I community development block. No. 269 Purbasthali Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Purbasthali II community development block, Jahannagar and Dogachia gram panchayats of Purbasthali I CD Block, and Bamunpara, Mamudpur II and Putsuri gram panchayats of Manteswar CD Block. ^[1]

The Purbasthali assembly segment was earlier part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency). As per orders of Delimitation Commission both Purbasthali Dakshin and Purbasthali Uttar are part of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

The West Bengal political scenario has changed dramatically over the years. In the early years after independence it was a scene of fluctuating fortunes between the Congress and the Left wing parties, till the latter captured power in the late seventies. The United News of India in a candid analysis says, “The green surge swept Bengal to demolish the red bastion in 2011 Assembly elections… Moreover, as the Left still remained cornered in state politics, their neutralised voters are increasingly migrating to the BJP for a viable alternative.” ^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Purbasthali	Bimalananda Tarkatirtha	Indian National Congress [3]
1957		Bimalananda Tarkatirtha	Indian National Congress [4]
1962		Bimalananda Tarkatirtha	Indian National Congress [5]
1967		Lalit Mohan Hazra	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1967	Nadanghat	P.C.Gswami	Indian National Congress [7]
1969	Purbasthali	Mollah Humayun Kabir	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
1969	Nadanghat	Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [9]
1971	Purbasthali	Mollah Humuayn Kabir	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1971	Nadanghat	Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
1972	Purbasthali	Nurunessa Satta	Indian National Congress [12]
1972	Nadanghat	Paresh Chandra	Indian National Congress [13]
1977	Purbasthali	Manoranjan Nath	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
1977	Nadanghat	Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [15]
1982	Purbasthali	Manoranjan Nath	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [16]
1982	Nadanghat	Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [17]
1987	Purbasthali	Manoranjan Nath	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [18]
1987	Nadanghat	Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [19]
1991	Purbasthali	Manoranjan Nath	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [20]
1991	Nadanghat	Biren Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [21]
1996	Purbasthali	Himansu Dutta	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [22]
1996	Nadanghat	Biren Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [23]
2001	Purbasthali	Subrata Bhowal	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [24]
2001	Nadanghat	Ratan Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [25]
2006	Purbasthali	Subrata Bhowal	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [26] [27]
2006	Nadanghat	Swapan Debnath	All India Trinamool Congress [28] [29]
2011	Purbasthali Uttar	Tapan Chaterjee	All India Trinamool Congress [30]
2016		Pradip Kumar Saha	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [31] [32]
2021		Tapan Chaterjee	All India Trinamool Congress [33]

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Purbasthali Uttar ^[33]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Tapan Chatterjee	92,421	43.52	+35.32
	BJP	Gobardhan Das	85,715	40.37	+397.70
	CPI (M)	Pradip Kumar Saha	28,134	13.25	-60.43
	BSP	Kesto Roy	1,907	0.90
	PMPT	Bibhas Das	1,675	0.79
	Independent	Samilan Sutradhar	1,141	0.54
	NOTA	None of the above	2,507	1.2
Turnout			208,951
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

2016

West Bengal state assembly elections, 2016: Purbasthali Uttar ^{[34] [35] [36] [31] [32]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	Pradip Kumar Saha	71,107	41.00	-3.74#
	AITC	Tapan Chatterjee	68,300	42.63	2.68#
	BJP	Swapan Bhattachrya	17,222	10.32
	People's Democratic Conference of India	Amanullah Sekh	5,394
	CPI(ML)L	Ashoke Chowdhury	2,159
	BSP	Sanjib Hazra	1,957
Turnout			166,806	88.26
	CPI (M) gain from AITC		Swing	+9.42#

.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress+Congress vote percentages taken together and CPI(M) vote percentages in 2006, in Purbasthali constituency.

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Purbasthali Uttar ^{[34] [37] [38]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Tapan Chatterjee	71,107	42.63	+0.74#
	CPI (M)	Pradip Saha	68,967	41.35	-8.68#
	BJP	Swapan Bhattachrya	17,222	10.32
	People's Democratic Conference of India	Amanullah Sekh	5,394
	CPI(ML)L	Ashoke Chowdhury	2,159
	BSP	Sanjib Hazra	1,957
Turnout			166,806	88.26
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing	+9.42#

.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress+Congress vote percentages taken together and CPI(M) vote percentages in 2006, in Purbasthali constituency.

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