Baranagar Assembly constituency

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

Baranagar
Constituency No. 113 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Baranagar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictNorth 24 Parganas
LS constituencyDum Dum
Established1952
Total electors208,417
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. 113 Baranagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Baranagar municipality and Ward Nos.17 to 20 of Kamarhati municipality.[1]

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

  CPI   CPI(M)   RSP   TMC

Election
Year		ConstituencyName of M.L.A.Party AffiliationRef(s)
1951 Baranagar Jyoti Basu Communist Party of India [2]
1957Communist Party of India[3]
1962Communist Party of India[4]
1967Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5]
1969Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1971Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1972 Shiba Pada Bhattacharjee Communist Party of India [8]
1977 Matish Roy Revolutionary Socialist Party [9]
1982Revolutionary Socialist Party[10]
1987Revolutionary Socialist Party[11]
1991Revolutionary Socialist Party[12]
1996 Amar Chaudhuri Revolutionary Socialist Party [13]
2001Revolutionary Socialist Party[14]
2006Revolutionary Socialist Party[15]
2011 Tapas Roy All India Trinamool Congress [16]
2016 All India Trinamool Congress [17]
2021 All India Trinamool Congress [18]

Election results

2021

In the 2021 election, Tapas Roy of AITC defeated his nearest rival Parno Mitra of BJP.

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West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Baranagar constituency[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TMC Tapas Roy 85,615 53.42 +4.63
BJP Parno Mitra 50,468 31.49 +22.46
INC Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay 20,135 12.56
NOTA None of the above 2,378 1.48 -1.15
Independent Subrata De 630 0.39
National Republic Party of India Surajit Ghosh 538 0.34
Independent Shyamal Chandra Karmakar 495 0.31 -0.26
Turnout 160,259 76.85 -0.13
TMC hold Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Tapas Roy of AITC defeated his nearest rival Sukumar Ghosh of RSP.

West Bengal assembly elections,2016: Baranagar constituency
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TMC Tapas Roy 76,531 48.79 -11.79
RSP Sukumar Ghosh 60,431 38.52 +2.76
BJP Sunil Dey 14,172 9.03 +6.62
None of the above None of the above 4,129 2.63
Independent Shyamal Chandra Karmakar 901 0.57
Rashtriya Janadhikar Suraksha Party Prabir Chatterjee 704 0.45
Turnout 156,868 76.98 -2.81
TMC hold Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Tapas Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Sukumar Ghosh of RSP.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Baranagar constituency[16][19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TMC Tapas Roy 89,883 60.58 +15.09#
RSP Sukumar Ghosh 53,055 35.76 -15.78
BJP Bijoy Sankar Agarwal 3,581 2.41
Independent Sovan Bhattacharya 1,853
Turnout 148,372 79.79
TMC gain from RSP Swing 30.87 #

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

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections, Amar Chaudhuri of RSP won the Baranagar assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Atin Ghosh of Trinamool Congress in 2006[15] and 2001,[14] and Silbhadra Dutta of Congress in 1996.[13] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Matish Roy of RSP defeated Ajoy Ghoshal of Congress in 1991,[12] Pranab Kanti Ghosh of Congress in 1987,[11] Sambhu Nath Dutta of Congress in 1982,[10] and Kumud Bhattacharjee of Congress in 1977.[9][20]

1951-1972

Shiba Pada Bhattacharjee of CPI defeated Jyoti Basu of CPI(M) in 1972.[8] Jyoti Basu, representing CPI(M) from 1967 onwards and undivided CPI prior to that, won the Baranagar seat in 1971,[7] 1969,[6] 1967,[5]1962,[4]1957[3] and in independent India's first election in 1951.[2]

References
  1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  2. "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  3. "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
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  5. "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  6. "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  7. "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  8. "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  9. "General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  10. "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  11. "General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  12. "General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  13. "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  14. "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  15. "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  16. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  17. List of Winners in West Bengal 2016
  18. "2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election result of Baranagar". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  19. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Baranagar. Empowering India. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  20. "137 - Baranagar Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
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