Santipur Assembly constituency

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Santipur
Constituency No. 86 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Santipur Assembly constituency
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Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State West Bengal
District Nadia
LS constituency Ranaghat
Established1951
Total electors255,619
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year 2021

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

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Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 86 Santipur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Shantipur municipality, and Babla, Baganchra, Belgoria I, Belgoria II Gayeshpur and Haripur gram panchayats of the Santipur community development block. [1]

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

ElectionNameParty
1951 Sashi Bhusan Khan Indian National Congress [3]
1957 Haridas DeyIndian National Congress [4]
1962 Kanai PalIndependent [5]
1967 K.Pal Communist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1969 M. Mokshed Ali Revolutionary Communist Party of India [7]
1971 Bimalananda Mukherjee Revolutionary Communist Party of India [8]
1972Asamanja DeIndian National Congress [9]
1977Bimalananda MukherjeeIndependent [10]
1982Revolutionary Communist Party of India [11]
1987Revolutionary Communist Party of India [12]
1991 Ajoy Dey Indian National Congress [13]
1996Indian National Congress [14]
2001 Indian National Congress [15]
2006 Indian National Congress [16]
2011 Indian National Congress [17]
By-Election, 2014 All India Trinamool Congress
2016 Arindam Bhattacharya Indian National Congress [18]
2021 Jagannath Sarkar Bharatiya Janata Party
2021 by-election Braja Kishore Goswami All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021 By-election

By-election, 2021: Santipur [19] [20] [21] [22]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Braja Kishore Goswami 112,08754.89+12.17
BJP Niranjan Biswas47,41223.22-26.72
CPI(M) Soumen Mahato39,95819.57+19.57
INC Raju Pal2,8771.41-3.07
NOTA None of the above 1,8800.92
Majority64,67531.67
Turnout 204,46980.08
AITC gain from BJP Swing

2021 Assembly Election

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Santipur [23]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Jagannath Sarkar 1,09,72249.94
AITC Ajoy Dey 93,84442.72
INC Riju Ghoshal9,8484.48
NOTA None of the above2,3851.09
Majority15,8787.28
Turnout 2,20,23886.16
BJP gain from INC Swing

2016

In the 2016 elections, the 6 times MLA Ajoy Dey was defeated by the West Bengal State Youth Congress, President, Arindam Bhattacharya. Arindam Bhattacharya a young leader and a corporate and International Trade Law expert registered a historical win over his rival, securing a 1,03,566 (52.25%) votes [24] with a winning margin of 19,488 votes.

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Santipur [25]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Arindam Bhattacharya103,56651.76
AITC Ajoy Dey84,07842.02
BJP Swapan Kumar Dam7,4953.75
Majority19,4889.74
Turnout 2,00,17888.83
INC gain from AITC Swing

2014 General election

Santipur Assembly constituency is part of Ranaghat (Lok Sabha constituency). Ranaghat went to the polls on May 12, 2014 in phase 5 of the 2014 general election in West Bengal. [26] The result of Santipur in this election is given below. [27]

PartyCandidateValid VotesVotes recorded on Postal Ballot papers
AITC Tapas Mandal 69,651N/A
CPI(M) Archana Biswas52,403
BJP Supravat Biswas31,070
INC Pratap Kanti Ray25,885
Rejected Votes0
NOTA 2,122
Tendered Votes0
Majority17,248
Turnout 186,767

2014 By-election

A by-election was held on 12 April 2014 following the resignation of the sitting MLA, Ajoy Dey who switched over to Trinamool Congress from Congress.

By-election, 2014: Santipur [28] [29] [30]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Ajoy Dey71,97338.95
CPI(M) Anup Kumar Ghosh51,83828.05
INC Kumares Chakraborty36,64519.83
BJP Sufal Sarkar24,32413.16
Majority20,13510.90
Turnout 1,87,08886.94
AITC gain from INC Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Ajoy Dey of Congress defeated his nearest rival Yar Mullick of RCPI.

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Santipur [17] [31] [32]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Ajoy Dey98,90257.77+10.09
RCPI Yar Mullick60,74435.48-11.18#
BJP Kanoj Biswas11,5436.74
Majority38,15822.29
Turnout 1,71,25589.83
INC hold Swing +21.27

.# Swing calculated on CPI(M)'s vote percentage in 2006.

1977–2006

In the 2006, [16] 2001, [15] 1996 [14] and 1991 [13] state assembly elections, Ajoy Dey of Congress won the Santipur seat, defeating his nearest rivals Sanatanu Chakrabarti of CPI (M), Badal Basak, Independent, Bimalananda Mukherjee of RCPI (R), and Asim Ghosh of RCPI in respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 1987, [12] 1982 [11] and 1977, [10] Bimalananda Mukherjee, RCPI/Independent candidate defeated Ajay Dey, Asamanja De (both of Congress) and Jnanendra Nath Pramanik of Janata Party in the respective years. [33]

1951–1972

Asamanja De of Congress won in 1972. [9] Bimalananda Mukherjee of RCPI won in 1971. [8] M. Mokshed Ali of RCPI won in 1969. [7] K.Pal of CPI(M) won in 1967. [6] Kanai Pal, Independent, won in 1962. [5] Haridas Dey of Congress won in 1957. [4] In independent India's first election in 1951, Sashi Bhusan Khan of Congress won the Santipur seat. [3]

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