Naihati Assembly constituency

Naihati Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Naihati
Constituency No. 104 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Map
Interactive Map Outlining Naihati Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictNorth 24 Parganas
LS constituencyBarrackpore
Established1951
Total electors152,602
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. 104 Naihati Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Naihati municipality, and Jethia, Kampa-Chakla, Majhipara–Palasi and Shibdaspur gram panchayats of Barrackpore I community development block.[1]

Naihati Assembly constituency is part of No. 15 Barrackpore (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election
Year
ConstituencyName of M.L.A.Party Affiliation
1951NaihatiSuresh Chandra PalIndian National Congress[2]
1957Gopal BasuCommunist Party of India[3]
1962Gopal BasuCommunist Party of India[4]
1967G.BhattacharyaIndian National Congress[5]
1969Gopal BasuCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1971Gopal BasuCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1972Tarapada MukhopadhyayIndian National Congress[8]
1977Gopal BasuCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982Ajit BasuCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1987Tarun AdhikaryIndian National Congress[11]
1991Tarun AdhikaryIndian National Congress[12]
1996Ranjit KunduCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2001Ranjit KunduCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2006Ranjit KunduCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
2011Partha BhowmickAll India Trinamool Congress[16]
2016Partha BhowmickAll India Trinamool Congress
2021Partha BhowmickAll India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Naihati
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITCPartha Bhowmick 77,753 50.00
BJPFalguni Patra58,89838.00
CPI(M)Indrani Kundu Mukherjee15,82510.00
NOTANone of the Above1,7011.00
IndependentKanai Das1,3781.00
Majority18,855
Turnout131,52286.19
AITC holdSwing

2011

In the 2011 election, Partha Bhowmick of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Ranjit Kundu of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Naihati constituency[16][17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITCPartha Bhowmick75,84257.39+10.91#
CPI(M)Ranjit Kundu48,01236.50-12.50
BJPBiswajit Sur2,8212.14
IndependentSaumen Sarkar1,933
CPI(ML)LSubrata Sengupta1,547
BSPBiswajit Sarkar946
IndependentRanjit Paul78
Turnout131,52286.19
AITC gain from CPI(M)Swing23.21#

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

1977–2006

In the 2006, 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections, Ranjit Kundu of CPI (M) won the Naihati assembly seat defeating Dhillon Sarkar of Trinamool Congress in 2006,[15] Tarun Adhikary of Trinamool Congress in 2001[14] and of Congress in 1996.[13] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Tarun Adhikary of Congress won the seat defeating Shyamal Bhattacharjee of JD in 1991[12] and Gopal Basu of CPI (M) in 1987.[11] Ajit Basu of CPI (M) won the seat in 1982[10] defeating Ranjit Bhattacharya of Congress. Gopal Basu of CPI (M) won in 1977 defeating Jagadish Chakrabarty of Congress.[9][18]

1951–1972

Tarapada Mukhopadhyay of Congress won in 1972.[8] Gopal Basu of CPI(M) won in 1971[7] and 1969.[6] G.Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1967.[5] Gopal Basu of CPI won in 1962[4] and 1957.[3] In independent India's first election in 1951 Suresh Chandra Pal of Congress won from Naihati.[2]

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