Kamarhati Assembly constituency

Kamarhati Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Kamarhati
Constituency No. 112 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Map
Interactive Map Outlining Kamarhati Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictNorth 24 Parganas
LS constituencyDum Dum
Established1967
Total electors160,967
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyAll India Trinamool Congress
Elected year2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 112 Kamarhati Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 16 and 21 to 35 of Kamarhati municipality.[1]

Kamarhati Assembly constituency is part of No. 16 Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election
Year
ConstituencyName of M.L.A.Party Affiliation
1967KamarhatiRadhika Ranjan BanerjeeCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[2]
1969Radhika Ranjan BanerjeeCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[3]
1971Radhika Ranjan BanerjeeCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[4]
1972Pradip Kumar PalitIndian National Congress[5]
1977Radhika Ranjan BannerjeeCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1982Radhika Ranjan BannerjeeCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1987Radhika Ranjan BannerjeeCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[8]
1991Santi GhatakCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1996Santi GhatakCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
2001Manash MukherjeeCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
2006Manash MukherjeeCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
2011Madan MitraAll India Trinamool Congress[13]
2016Manash MukherjeeCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
2021Madan MitraAll India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Kamarhati
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITCMadan Mitra73,49151.17
BJPAnindya Raju Banerjee38,23526.64
CPI(M)Sayandeep Mitra28,13819.62
Turnout
AITC gain from CPI(M)Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Manas Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Madan Mitra of Trinamool Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Kamarhati constituency[13][14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CPI(M)Manash Mukherjee62,19445.09+6.18
AITCMadan Mitra57,99642.04-15.92
BJPKrishanu Mitra10,797+7.836.50
NOTANone of the above2,6231.90+1.90
IndependentManas Mukherjee1,0090.73
IndependentSubhojit Dutta9230.67
BSPRekha Devi8480.61
CPI(ML)LArchana Ghatak3990.29
PDSSantanu Chatterjee3520.26
Turnout1,37,94374.85-4.59
CPI(M) gain from AITCSwing

2011

In the 2011 election, Madan Mitra of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Manas Mukherjee of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Kamarhati constituency[13][15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITCMadan Mitra74,11257.96+17.25#
CPI(M)Manash Mukherjee49,75838.91-17.49
BJPShikha Sarkar1,6991.33
IndependentSushanta Dey1,079
CPI(ML)LNabendu Dasgupta739
PDSTarak Bhadra479
Turnout127,86679.44
AITC gain from CPI(M)Swing34.74#

2006

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CPI(M)Manash Mukherjee71,322
AITCSubhrangshu Bhattacharya40,634
INCSambhu Nath Dutta10,845
IndependentShambhu Dutta1981
BSPRam Bachchan1679
Turnout126461
CPIM holdSwing{{{swing}}}

1977-2006

In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections Manash Mukherjee of CPI(M), won from the Kamarhati assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Subhrangshu Bhattacharya of Trinamool Congress in 2006[12] and Chittaranjan Bag of Trinamool Congress in 2001.[11] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Santi Ghatak of CPI(M) had won it in 1996[10] and in 1991[9] defeating his nearest rivals Sambhunath Dutta of Congress in 1996 and Salil Biswas of Congress in 1991. Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee of CPI(M) had won this seat in 1987, 1982, and in 1977defeating Ajoy Ghosal of Congress in 1987,[8] Purnendu Bimal Dutta of Congress in 1982[7] and Jayanta Chandra Sen of Congress in 1977.[6][16]

1967-1972

Pradip Kumar Palit of Congress won in 1972.[5] Radhika Ranjan Banerjee of CPI(M) won in 1971,[4] 1969[3] and in 1967.[2] Prior to that the Kamarhati seat did not exist.

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