Behala Purba Assembly constituency

West Bengal Legislative Assembly constituency

Behala Purba
Constituency No. 153 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Behala Purba Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Kolkata
LS constituency	Kolkata Dakshin
Established	1951
Total electors	308,157
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ratna Chatterjee
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Behala Purba Assembly constituency (earlier known as Behala East Assembly constituency) is a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata 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 a part of Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[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

^ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
^ "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.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ "General Elections, India, 2016, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Behala Purba. Empowering India. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
^ "112 – Behala East Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 October 2010.

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