Kulti Assembly constituency

Kulti
Constituency No. 282 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Kulti Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Paschim Bardhaman
Lok Sabha constituency	Asansol
Established	1951
Total electors	187,505
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ajay Kumar Poddar
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2021

Kulti Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 282 Kulti assembly constituency covers Wards nos. 16-19, 58-74, 99-105 of Asansol Municipal Corporation. ^[1]

Kulti assembly segment is part of No. 40 Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1951	Baidyanath Mandal		Indian National Congress
	Joy Narayan Sarma
1957	Benarashi Prosad Jha		Praja Socialist Party
1962	Jaynarayan Sharma		Indian National Congress
1967
1969	Taraknath Chakraborty		Samyukta Socialist Party
1971	Ramdas Banerjee		Indian National Congress
1972
1977	Madhu Banerjee		Marxist Forward Bloc
1982			Forward Bloc
1987	Tuhin Samanta		Indian National Congress
1991	Maniklal Acharya		Forward Bloc
1996
2001
2006	Ujjal Chatterjee		All India Trinamool Congress
2011
2016
2021	Dr. Ajay Kumar Poddar		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2026

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kulti

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC
	BJP
	LF
	INC
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kulti ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ajay Kumar Poddar	81,112	46.41	17.13
	AITC	Ujjal Chatterjee	80,433	46.02	5.21
	INC	Chandi Das Chatterjee	5,795	3.32	22.07
	NOTA	None of the above	3,553	2.03
	IND	Suraj Kewat	2,003	1.15
Majority			679	0.40
Turnout			1,74,942	69.51
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

*The Congress party had an alliance with CPI(M)

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kulti ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ujjal Chatterjee	68,952	40.81	15.28
	BJP	Ajay Kumar Poddar	49,464	29.28	25.18
	INC	Abhijit Acharyya (Bappa)	42,895	25.39	25.39
	JMM	Shakil Ansari	1,896	1.12
	NOTA	None of the above	2,848	1.69
Majority			19,488	11.53
Turnout			1,68,994	73.36
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Ujjal Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Maniklal Acharya of AIFB.

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kulti ^{[4] [5]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ujjal Chatterjee	77,610	56.09	−0.38#
	AIFB	Maniklal Acharya	49,044	35.45	−6.22
	BJP	Vivekananda Bhattacharya	5,666	4.10
	JD(U)	Subhas Singh	3,567	2.58
	JMM	Singrai Marandi	2,468	1.78
Majority			28,566	20.65
Turnout			1,38,470	73.66
	AITC hold		Swing	+5.94#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages in 2006 taken together.

1977-2006

Ujjal Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress won the Kulti assembly seat in 2006. Maniklal Acharya of Forward Bloc won the seat in 2001. Prior to that the seat was won by Maniklal Acharjee of Forward Bloc in 1996 and 1991, Tuhin Samanta of Congress in 1987, Madhu Banerjee of Forward Bloc in 1982 and 1977. ^[6]

1951-1977

Ramdas Banerjee of Congress won in 1972 and 1971, Dr. Taraknath Chakrabarti of Samyukta Socialist Party won in 1969, Dr. Jai Narayan Sharma of Congress in 1967 and 1962, Benarasi Prasad Jha of PSP in 1957. In 1952, independent India's first election, Kulti was a twin member constituency and those elected were Jai Narayan Sharma and Baidyanath Mondal, both of Congress. ^[7]

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
2. "Kulti Election Result 2021". Times Now News.com. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
3. "Kulti constituency". Check 2016 result. CNBC TV18. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
4. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Kulti. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
5. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). Kulti. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
6. "257 - Kulti Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
7. Bandopadhyay, Shantimoy, Asansol Parikrama (History of Asansol Sub Division) (in Bengali), pp 157-159, Trnity Trust.

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