Chowrangee | |
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Constituency No. 162 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | East India |
State | West Bengal |
District | Kolkata |
LS constituency | Kolkata Uttar |
Established | 1957 |
Total electors | 208,157 |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
Elected year | 2021 |
Chowrangee Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Located at the heart of the city, historically this constituency had been a bastion of the Indian National Congress. Since the formation of Trinamool Congress from Congress, this seat has been held by the party.
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 162 Chowrangee Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 and 62 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.[1]
Chowrangee Assembly constituency is part of No. 24 Kolkata Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency).[1] Prior to the 2009 Indian general election it was part of Calcutta South (Lok Sabha constituency).[2]
Election | Member | Party Affiliation | |
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1957 | Bijoy Singh Nahar | Indian National Congress[3][4][5][6][7][8] | |
1962 | Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy | ||
1967 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | ||
1969 | |||
1971 | Sankar Ghose | ||
1972 | |||
1977 | Sandip Das | Janata Party[9] | |
1982 | Sisir Kumar Bose | Indian National Congress[10][11][12] | |
1987 | Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay | ||
1991 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | ||
By-election, 1993 | Anil Chatterjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12] | |
1996 | Subrata Mukherjee | Indian National Congress[13] | |
2001 | All India Trinamool Congress[14][15][16][17] | ||
2006 | Subrata Bakshi | ||
2011 | Sikha Chowdhury(Mitra) | ||
By-election, 2014 | Nayna Bandyopadhyay | ||
2016 | |||
2021 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Nayna Bandyopadhyay | 70,101 | 62.87 | ||
BJP | Devdutta Maji | 24,757 | 22.20 | ||
INC | Santosh Pathak | 14,266 | 12.80 | ||
None of the Above | None of the Above | 1,212 | 1.09 | ||
BSP | Swaminath Kori | 264 | 0.24 | ||
Majority | 45,344 | 41.07 | |||
Turnout | 1,11,625 | 53.61 | |||
AITC hold | Swing | + |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Nayna Bandyopadhyay | 55,119 | 47.29 | +7.15 | |
INC | Somen Mitra | 41,903 | 36.95 | +12.53 | |
BJP | Ritesh Tiwari | 15,707 | 13.48 | −11.64 | |
None of the Above | None of the Above | 2,183 | 1.87 | New | |
SUCI(C) | Kartik Kumkar | 612 | 0.53 | ||
Majority | 13,216 | 10.34 | −4.68 | ||
Turnout | 1,16,557 | 56.20 | +8.51 | ||
AITC hold | Swing | +7.15 |
A by-election was held on 13 September 2014 following the resignation of the sitting MLA, Shikha Chowdhury (Mitra) who switched over from Trinamool Congress to Congress.[17]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Nayna Bandyopadhyay | 38,328 | 40.14 | −31.76 | |
BJP | Ritesh Tiwari | 23,984 | 25.12 | +20.78 | |
INC | Santosh Kumar Pathak | 23,317 | 24.42 | New | |
CPI(M) | Adv. Faiyaz Ahmed Khan | 8,890 | 9.09 | New | |
Majority | 14,344 | 15.02 | −37.23 | ||
Turnout | 96,650 | 47.69 | −4.56 | ||
AITC hold | Swing | -31.76 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Sikha Chowdhury (Mitra) | 79,450 | 71.90 | ||
RJD | Bimal Singh | 21,711 | 19.65 | ||
BJP | Shahnawaz Ahmed | 4,799 | 4.34 | ||
AIMF | Abdul Wahab | 1,640 | 1.48 | ||
Majority | 57,739 | 52.25 | |||
Turnout | 1,10,506 | 54.42 | |||
AITC win |