Behala Purba
Constituency No. 153 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictSouth 24 Parganas
LS constituencyKolkata Dakshin
Established1952
Total electors308,157
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Ratna Chatterjee
PartyAll India Trinamool Congress
Elected year2021

Behala Purba Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of South 24 Parganas district (Kolkata Municipal Corporation Area) in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 153 Behala Purba Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 115, 116, 117, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 142, 143 and 144 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

Behala Purba Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin.[1] Behala East was earlier part of Jadavpur.[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Member Party Affiliation
Behala
1952 Biren Roy All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar)[3]
1957 Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay Communist Party of India[4]
1962 Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay Communist Party of India[5]
Behala East
1967 Niranjan Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1969 Niranjan Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1971 Niranjan Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8]
1972 Indrajit Majumdar Indian National Congress[9]
1977 Niranjan Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1982 Niranjan Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1987 Niranjan Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1991 Kumkum Chakraborti Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
1996 Kumkum Chakraborti Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2001 Parash Dutta All India Trinamool Congress[15]
2006 Kumkum Chakraborti Communist Party of India (Marxist)[16]
Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Behala Purba
2011 Sovan Chatterjee All India Trinamool Congress[17]
2016 Sovan Chatterjee All India Trinamool Congress[18]
2021 Ratna Chatterjee All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Behala Purba
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Ratna Chatterjee 110,968 50.01
BJP Payel Sarkar 73,540 33.15
CPI(M) Samita Har Chowdhury 30,172 13.60
None of the Above None of the above 2,835 1.28
BSP Rina Roy 1,175 0.53
Majority 37,428 17.08
Turnout 2,21,885 71.97
AITC hold Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Behala Purba
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Sovan Chatterjee 96,621 47.33
Independent Ambikesh Mahapatra 72,327 35.43
BJP Chandra Bhan Singh 21,854 10.71
SHS Sumit Banerjee 3,649 1.79
None of the Above None of the above 3,919 1.92
Majority 24,294 11.90
Turnout 2,05,294 73.83
AITC hold Swing

2011

In 2011 Sovan Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kumkum Chakraborty of CPI(M),

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Behala Purba[17][19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Sovan Chatterjee 1,16,709 60.28 +14.33
CPI(M) Kumkum Chakraborty 68,536 35.40 -15.33
BJP A. Biswajit Naidu 3,692 1.91
BSP Indrajit Kumar Halder 1,170 0.60
IND Tarun Kanti Das 1,131 0.58
Majority 48,173 24.88
Turnout 1,94,208 79.79
AITC gain from CPI(M) Swing 30.50#

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

1977–2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections,[16] Kumkum Chakraborti of Communist Party of India (Marxist) won the Behala East assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Sovan Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Parash Dutta of Trinamool Congress defeated Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) in 2001.[15] Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) defeated Sonali Guha of Congress in 1996,[14] and Sailen Dasgupta of Congress in 1991.[13] Niranjan Mukherjeee of CPI(M) defeated Debashis Bhattacharya of Congress in 1987,[12] Balaram Goswami of Congress in 1982,[11] and Indrajit Mazumdar of Congress in 1977.[10][20]

1952–1972

Indrajit Majumdar of Congress won the Behala East seat in 1972.[9] Niranjan Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971,[8] 1969[7] and 1967.[6] Prior to that Behala was a single seat. Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay of CPI won the Behala seat in 1962[5] and 1957.[4] In independent India's first election in 1952,[3] Biren Roy of Forward Bloc (RG) won the Behala seat.

References

Notes

Citations

  1. ^ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
  2. ^ "Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha" (PDF). Volume III Details For Assembly Segments of Parliamentary Constituencies. Election Commission of India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 October 2010. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
  3. ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  4. ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  5. ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  6. ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  7. ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  8. ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  9. ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  10. ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  11. ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  12. ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  13. ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  14. ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  15. ^ a b "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  16. ^ a b "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  17. ^ a b "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  18. ^ "General Elections, India, 2016, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  19. ^ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Behala Purba. Empowering India. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
  20. ^ "112 – Behala East Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
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