Uttarpara Assembly constituency

Uttarpara
Constituency No. 185 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Uttarpara Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly
Lok Sabha constituency	Sreerampur
Established	1951
Total electors	216,312
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kanchan Mullick
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Uttarpara Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 185 Uttarpara Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Uttarpara Kotrung Municipality, Konnagar Municipality and Nabagram, Kanaipur, Raghunathpur gram panchayats of Sreerampur Uttarpara community development block. ^[1]

Uttarpara Assembly constituency is part of No. 27 Sreerampur Lok Sabha constituency. ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1951	Monoranjan Hazra		Communist Party of India
1957
1962
1967			Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1969
1971	Santasri Chatterjee
1972
1977
1982
1987
1991
1996	Jyoti Krishna Chattopadhyay
2001	Swaraj Mukherjee		Trinamool Congress
2003^	Jyoti Krishna Chattopadhyay		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2006	Srutinath Praharaj
2011	Anup Ghoshal		Trinamool Congress
2016	Prabir Kumar Ghosal
2021	Kanchan Mullick

• ^ by-election

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Uttarpara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Kanchan Mullick	93,878	46.96	2.07
	BJP	Prabir Kumar Ghosal	57,889	28.96	16.44
	CPI(M)	Rajat Banerjee	42,718	21.37	17.18
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,353	1.68	0.67
	CPI(ML)L	Sourav Roy	1,223	0.61	0.3
	Independent	Ranjan Mukherjee	833	0.42
Majority			35,989	18.00	11.66
Turnout			1,99,894	76.94	1.17
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Uttarpara ^{[2] [3]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Prabir Kumar Ghosal	84,918	44.89	14.88
	CPI(M)	Srutinath Praharaj	72,918	38.55	3.43
	BJP	Krishna Bhattacharjee	23,687	12.52	9.00
	NOTA	None of the Above	4,444	2.35
	CPI(ML)L	Swapan Majumdar	1,730	0.91
	Independent	Suvendu Biswas	1,458	0.77
Majority			12,000	6.34	18.31
Turnout			1,89,155	78.11	2.62
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Uttarpara ^{[2] [4]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Anup Ghosal	104,753	59.77
	CPI(M)	Srutinath Praharaj	61,560	35.12
	BJP	Pranab Chakraborty	6,161	3.52
	JD(U)	Rishikesh Singh	2,794	1.59
Majority			43,193	24.65
Turnout			1,75,268	80.73
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, ^[5] Prof. Dr. Srutinath Praharaj of CPI(M) won the Uttarpara assembly seat, defeating Sudpita Roy of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Jyoti Krishna Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) defeated Indrajit Ghosh of Trinamool Congress in the 2003 by-poll, which was held following the demise of sitting MLA Prof. Swaraj Mukherjee. Prof. Swaraj Mukherjee of Trinamool Congress defeated Jyoti Krishna Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) in 2001. ^[6] Jyoti Krishna Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) defeated Pabitra Gupta of Congress in 1996. ^[7] Santasri Chatterjee of CPI(M) defeated Jagat Chatterjee of Congress in 1991 ^[8] and 1987, ^[9] Sukumar Ghosh of Congress in 1982, ^[10] and Kashinath Banerjee of Janata Party in 1977. ^{[11] [12]}

1951-1972

Santasri Chatterjee of CPI(M) won in 1972 ^[13] and 1971. ^[14] Monoranjan Hazra of CPI/CPI(M) won in 1969, ^[15] 1967, ^[16] 1962, ^[17] 1957 ^[18] and in independent India's first election in 1951. ^[19]

References

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