Baharampur Assembly constituency

Baharampur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Baharampur
Constituency No. 72 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Baharampur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Murshidabad
LS constituency	Baharampur
Established	1951
Total electors	260,667
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Subrata Maitra
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 72 Baharampur Assembly constituency covers Baharampur municipality, and Bhakuri I, Daulatabad, Gurudaspur, Hatinagar and Manindranagar gram panchayats of Berhampore community development block.^[1]

Baharampur Assembly constituency is part of No. 10 Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party
1951	Berhampore	Bijoy Kumar Ghosh	Indian National Congress[2]
1957		Bijoy Kumar Ghosh	Indian National Congress[3]
1962		Sanat Kumar Raha	Communist Party of India[4]
1967		S. Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress[5]
1969		Sanat Kumar Raha	Communist Party of India[6]
1971		Sankar Das Paul	Indian National Congress[7]
1972		Sankar Das Paul	Indian National Congress[8]
1977		Debabrata Bandopadhyay	Revolutionary Socialist Party[9]
1982		Debabrata Bandopadhyay	Revolutionary Socialist Party[10]
1987		Debabrata Bandopadhyay	Revolutionary Socialist Party[11]
1991		Sankar Das Paul	Indian National Congress[12]
1996		Maya Rani Paul	Indian National Congress[13]
2001		Maya Rani Paul	Indian National Congress[14]
2006		Manoj Chakraborty	Congress-Supported Independent[15]
Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Baharampur
2011	Baharampur	Manoj Chakraborty	Indian National Congress[16]
2016	Baharampur	Manoj Chakraborty	Indian National Congress
2021	Baharampur	Subrata Maitra Kanchan	Bharatiya Janata Party[17]

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Baharampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Subrata Maitra	89,340	45.21	35.01
	AITC	Naru Gopal Mukherjee	62,488	31.62	12.42
	INC	Manoj Chakraborty	40,167	20.33	48.87
	NOTA	None of the above	2,525	1.28
Majority			26,852	13.59	36.41
Turnout			1,97,607	75.81	4.39
Registered electors			2,60,667
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Manoj Chakraborty of Congress defeated his nearest rival Sujata Banerjee of Trinamool Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Baharampur constituency^[16][18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Manoj Chakraborty	127,762	69.20%
	AITC	Dr. Sujata Banerjee	35,489	19.20%
	BJP	Mala Banerjee	18,805	10.20%
	SUCI(C)	Kousik Chatterjee	1,727	0.90%
	Independent	Sujit Kumar Das	881	0.50%
Majority			92,273	50.00%
Turnout			1,84,664	80.20%
	INC hold		Swing	+3.34#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.

2011

In the 2011 election, Manoj Chakraborty of Congress defeated his nearest rival Tarit Brahmachari of RSP.

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Manoj Chakraborty	91,578	54.90	−4.52#
	RSP	Tarit Brahmachari	48,265	28.93	−7.86
	BJP	Debasis Sarkar	12,758	7.65
	Independent	Debjani Saha	8,162	4.89
	SDPI	Tayebdul Islam	3,787	2.30
	IPFB	Sujit Kumar Das	1,331	0.80
	JD(U)	Sunil Kumar Mondal	940	0.60
Majority			43,313	26.0
Turnout			166,821	81.13
	INC hold		Swing	+3.34#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.

2006

In the 2006 election, Manoj Chakraborty of Congress MP of Baharampur, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Supported Independent defeated his nearest rival Amal Karmakar of RSP.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Baharampur constituency^[16][20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Manoj Chakraborty	94,562	50.60
	RSP	Amal Karmakar	68,836	36.80
	INC	Maya Rani Paul	16,596	8.90
	Independent	Apurba Banerjee	2,834	1.50
	Independent	Sunil Kumar Mandal	2,737	1.50
	Independent	Md. Hayatur Rahaman	1,516	0.80
Turnout			187,081	81.13
	INC hold		Swing	+3.34#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Manoj Chakraborty (Independent) vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977–2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections^[15] Manoj Chakraborty, Independent, won the Berhampore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Amal Karmakar of RSP. Manoj Chakraborty, contesting as an independent, was a rebel congress candidate put up by Adhir Choudhury as a protest against the official Congress candidate Maya Rani Paul.^[21] He was subsequently taken back into the Congress.^[22] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Maya Rani Paul of Congress defeated Kartick Sahana of RSP in 2001,^[14] and Biswanath Banerjee of RSP in 1996.^[13] Sankar Das Paul of Congress defeated Ipsita Gupta of RSP in 1991.^[12] Debabrata Bandopadhyay of RSP defeated Sankar Das Paul of Congress in 1987^[11] and 1982,^[10] and Subrata Saha of Congress in 1977.^[9][23]

1951–1972

Sankar Das Paul of Congress won in 1972^[8] and 1971.^[7] Sanat Kumar Raha of CPI won in 1969.^[6] S. Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1967.^[5] Sanat Kumar Raha of CPI won in 1962.^[4] Bejoy Kumar Ghosh of Congress won in 1957^[3] and in independent India's first election in 1951.^[2]

References

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