Chunchura Assembly constituency

Chunchura
Constituency No. 190 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Chunchura Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly
Lok Sabha constituency	Hooghly
Established	1951
Total electors	262,555
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Asit Mazumdar
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Chunchura 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. 190 Chunchura Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Hooghly Chinsurah Municipality and Bandel, Debanandapur, Kodalia I and Kodalia II gram panchayats of Chinsurah Mogra community development block and Polba, Rajhat and Sugandha gram panchayats of Polba Dadpur community development block. ^[1]

Chunchura Assembly constituency is part of No. 28 Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency. ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1951	Jyotish Chandra Ghosh		All India Forward Bloc (MG)
	Radha Nath Das		Indian National Congress
1957	Bhupati Majumdar
1962	Sambhu Charan Ghosh		All India Forward Bloc
1967
1969
1971	Bhupati Majumdar		Indian National Congress
1972
1973^	Chandra Kumar Dey		Independent politician
1977	Sambhu Charan Ghosh		All India Forward Bloc
1982
1987	Naren Dey
1991
1996
2001
2006
2011	Asit Mazumdar		Trinamool Congress
2016
2021

• ^ denotes by-election

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chunchura

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Asit Mazumdar	117,104	45.97	3.09
	BJP	Locket Chatterjee	98,687	38.74	28.34
	AIFB	Pranab Kumar Ghosh	28,777	11.3	25.47
	NOTA	None of the Above	4,338	1.7	0.62
	BSP	Goutam Mondal	1,328	0.52
Majority			18,417	7.23	5.06
Turnout			2,54,737	81.06	0.89
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chunchura

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Asit Mazumdar	118,501	49.06	7.84
	AIFB	Pranab Kumar Ghosh	88,817	36.77	0.18
	BJP	Champa Chakraborty	25,120	10.40	7.82
	NOTA	None of the Above	5,603	2.32
	SUCI	Paban Mazumder	2,208	0.91
	Independent	Deb Kanta Sikdar	1,289	0.53
Majority			29,684	12.29	7.66
Turnout			2,41,538	81.95	2.78
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chunchura ^{[2] [3]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Asit Mazumdar	127,206	56.90
	AIFB	Naren Dey	82,614	42.18
	BJP	Champa Chakraborty	5,761	2.58
	Independent	Sajal Samaddar	2,860	1.28
	BSP	Surya Kanta Ray	2,550	1.14
	PDS	Arindam Chakraborty	1,533	0.69
	JDP	Lakshmi Ram Saren	1,042	0.47
Majority			44,592	19.95
Turnout			2,23,566	84.73
	AITC gain from AIFB		Swing

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001, 1996, 1991 and 1987 state assembly elections Naren Dey Forward Bloc won the Chinsurah assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Ashis Sen of Trinamool Congress in 2006, ^[4] Robin Mukherjee of Trinamool Congress in 2001, ^[5] Tapan Dasgupta of Congress in 1996 ^[6] and 1991, ^[7] and Chandra Kumar Dey of Congress in 1987. ^[8] Sambhu Charan Ghosh of Forward Bloc defeated Rabin Mukherjee of Congress in 1982 ^[9] and Chandra Kumar Dey of Congress in 1977. ^{[10] [11]}

1951-1972

Bhupati Majumdar of Congress won in 1972 ^[12] and 1971. ^[13] Sambhu Charan Ghosh of Forward Bloc won in 1969, ^[14] 1967 ^[15] and 1962. ^[16] Bhupati Majumdar of Congress won in 1957. ^[17] In independent India's first election in 1951 ^[18] Jyotish Chandra Ghosh of Forward Bloc (MG) and Radha Nath Das of Congress won the Chinsurah double seat.

References

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