Bhabanipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency

For the constituency in Assam, see Bhabanipur, Assam Assembly constituency.

Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Bhabanipur
Constituency No. 159 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Bhabanipur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Kolkata
LS constituency	Kolkata Dakshin
Established	1951
Total electors	206,272
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Mamata Banerjee
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 159 Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 63, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77 and 82 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.^[1]

Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party
1952	Mira Dutta Gupta		Indian National Congress [2][3]
1957	Siddhartha Shankar Ray
1962			Independent [4]
Constituency renamed as Kalighat
1967	Beva Mitra		Indian National Congress [5]
1969	Sadhan Gupta		Communist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1971	Rathin Talukdar		Indian National Congress [7][8]
1972
1977-2009:Constituency did not exist
2011	Subrata Bakshi		Trinamool Congress
2011^	Mamata Banerjee
2016
2021	Sovandeb Chattopadhyay
2021^	Mamata Banerjee

^By poll

Election results

2021 By-Election

Bye-election, 2021: Bhabanipur^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee	85,263	71.90	+14.19
	BJP	Priyanka Tibrewal	26,428	22.29	−12.87
	CPI(M)	Shrijeeb Biswas	4,226	3.56
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,453	1.23
Majority			58,835	49.61
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing	+14.19

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sovandeb Chatterjee	73,505	57.71	+10.04
	BJP	Rudranil Ghosh	44,786	35.16	+16.03
	INC	Md. Shadab Khan	5,211	4.09	−25.17
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,570	1.23	−0.56
	BSP	Anita Rajwar	564	0.44	+0.17
Majority			28,719	22.55
Turnout			1,27,536	61.79
	AITC hold		Swing	+10.04

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	'Mamata Banerjee (CM Candidate)'	65,520	47.67	−29.79
	INC	Deepa Dasmunshi	40,219	29.26	New
	BJP	Chandra Kumar Bose	26,299	19.13	New
	None of the Above	None of the Above	2,461	1.79	New
	BSP	Nirmal Kanti Samaddar[14]	669	0.27
Majority			25,301	18.41	−38.62
Turnout			1,37,475	66.83	+22.11
	AITC hold		Swing	-29.79

Bye-election, 2011

The bypoll to the Bhowanipore seat was necessitated after sitting MLA of Trinamool Congress Subrata Bakshi resigned to make way for the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to contest. She had not contested the state assembly elections earlier. She had to become a member of the state assembly within six months of her assuming office as Chief Minister as per the rules of the Constitution of India.^[15]

Bye-election, 2011: Bhabanipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee (CM Candidate)	73,635	77.46	+12.69
	CPI(M)	Nandini Mukherjee	19,422	20.43	−7.55
	Independent	Sujay Krishna Bhadra	809	0.85
Majority			54,213	57.03	+20.24
Turnout			95,064	44.73	−19.04
	AITC hold		Swing	+12.69

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Subrata Bakshi	87,903	64.77
	CPI(M)	Narayan Prasad Jain	37,967	27.98
	BJP	Ram Chandra Jaiswal	5,078	3.74
	BSP	Dulal Mistri	1,050	0.77
Majority			49,936	36.79
Turnout			1,35,741	63.78
	AITC win

References

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