Bijpur Assembly constituency

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

Bijpur
Constituency No. 103 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Bijpur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
LS constituency	Barrackpore
Established	1951
Total electors	158,495
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Subodh Adhikary
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 103 Bijpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kanchrapara municipality and Halisahar municipality.^[1]

Bijpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 15 Barrackpore (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party Affiliation
1951	Bipin Behari Ganguli	Indian National Congress[2]
1957	Niranjan Sengupta	Communist Party of India[3]
1962	Monoranjan Roy	Communist Party of India[4]
1967	Jagadish Chandra Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5]
1969		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1971		Indian National Congress[7]
1972		Indian National Congress[8]
1977		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1987		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1991		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1996	Kamal Sengupta Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2001	Jagadish Chandra Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2006	Dr. Nirjharini Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
2011	Subhranshu Roy	All India Trinamool Congress[16]
2016		AITC, but later suspended - joined BJP in 2019
2021	Subodh Adhikary	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bijpur^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Subodh Adhikary	66,625	47.90%	−13.68
	BJP	Subhranshu Roy	53,278	38.30%	+27.3
	CPI(M)	Sukanta Rakshit (Babin)	14,490	10.42%	−13.08
Majority			13,347	9.65
Turnout			1,37,869	72.54	+3.03
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Bijpur constituency^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Subhranshu Roy	76,744	61.58	+10.09
	CPI(M)	Dr. Rabindra Nath Mukherjee	28,888	23.15	−18.42
	BJP	Alo Rani Sarkar	13,723	11	+7.19
	SUCI(C)	Kalipada Debnath	1,714
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,483
	BSP	Krishna Gopal Majhi	1,001
Majority			47,954	38.43
Turnout			1,24,504	69.51	–10.73
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, SubhransHu Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Nirjharini Chakraborty of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Bijpur constituency^[16][19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Subhranshu Roy	65,479	51.49	+4.57#
	CPI(M)	Nirjharini Chakarborty	52,867	41.57	−11.08
	BJP	Kamala Kanta Chowdhury	4,841	3.81
	Independent	Ramen Mallick	2,005
	BSP	Sarat Chandra Biswas	1,982
Turnout			127,174	80.24
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	15.66%*

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections^[15] Dr. Nirjharini Chakraborty of CPI(M) won the Bijpur seat defeating Kalyani Biswas (Basu) of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001,^[14] Jagadish Chandra Das of CPI(M) won defeating Jagadish Das, son of Akul Das, of Trinamool Congress. Kamal Sengupta Basu of CPI(M) defeated Mrinal Kanti Singha Roy of Congress in 1996.^[13] Jagadish Chandra Das of CPI(M) defeated Bimalananda Dutta of Congress in 1991^[12] and 1987,^[11] Prabir Bandopadhyay of Congress in 1982^[10] and Jagadish Chandra Das, s/o Akul in 1977.^[9][20]

1951-1972

Jagadish Chandra Das, s/o Akul, of Congress won in 1972^[8] and 1971.^[7] Jagadish Chandra Das of CPI(M) won in 1969^[6] and 1967.^[5] Monoranjan Roy of CPI won in 1962.^[4]Niranjan Sengupta of CPI won in 1957^[3] and in independent India's first election in 1951.^[2]

References

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