Ballygunge Assembly constituency

Ballygunge
Constituency No. 161 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Ballygunge Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Kolkata
LS constituency	Kolkata Dakshin
Established	1951
Total electors	247,623
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Babul Supriyo
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2022

Ballygunge Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 161 Ballygunge Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 60, 61, 64, 65, 68, 69 and 85 of Kolkata municipal corporation. ^[1]

Ballygunge Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1952	Jogesh Chandra Gupta		Indian National Congress [2]
1957	Jnendra Mazumdar		Communist Party of India [3]
1962	Anil Moitra		Independent [4]
1967	Jyotibhushan Bhattacharya		Communist Party of India (Marxist) [5] [6]
1969
1971	Subrata Mukherjee		Indian National Congress [7] [8]
1972
1977	Sachin Sen		Communist Party of India (Marxist) [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
1982
1987
1991
1992^	Rabin Deb
1996
2001
2006	Javed Ahmed Khan		All India Trinamool Congress [15] [16]
2011	Subrata Mukherjee
2016
2021
2022^	Babul Supriyo

^ by-poll

Election results

2022 by-poll

2022 By-election: Ballygunge

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Babul Supriyo Baral	51,199	49.69	-20.91%
	CPI(M)	Saira Shah Halim	30,971	30.06	+24.45%
	BJP	Keya Ghosh	13,220	12.83	-7.85%
	INC	Kamruzzaman Choudhary	5,218	5.06	New
	None of the Above	NOTA	1,196	1.16	+0.3%
Majority			20,228	19.6%	-30.73%
Turnout			1,03,031	41%	-29%
Registered electors
	AITC hold		Swing	-21%

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Ballygunge

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Subrata Mukherjee	1,06,585	70.60	+25.07
	BJP	Adv. Lokenath Chatterjee	31,226	20.68	+7.28
	CPI(M)	Dr. Fuad Halim	8,474	5.61
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,317	0.87
	BSP	Rajendra Ram Das	812	0.54
Majority			75,359	50.33
Turnout			1,51,056	60.99
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Ballygunge

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Subrata Mukherjee	70,083	45.53	-15.12
	INC	Krishna Debnath	54,858	35.64	New
	BJP	Jiban Kumar Sen	20,622	13.40	+9.84
	None of the Above	None of the Above	3,433	2.23	New
	BSP	Rajendra Ram Das	1,538	1.00
Majority			15,225	9.89	-18.44
Turnout			1,53,941	63.86	-2.29
	AITC hold		Swing	-15.12

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Ballygunge

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Subrata Mukherjee	88,194	60.65
	CPI(M)	Dr. Fuad Halim	47,009	32.32
	BJP	Shatorupa	5,188	3.56
	IND	Moloy Prokash	1,538	1.06
Majority			41,185	28.33
Turnout			1,45,414	66.15
	AITC win

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
2. "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. 178. Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
3. "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 147. Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
4. "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 118. Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
5. "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 141. Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
6. "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 141. Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
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14. "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 152. Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
15. "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 152. Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
16. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 161. Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.