Gaighata Assembly constituency

This article is about the assembly constituency in West Bengal, India. For 1 its namesake community development block, see Gaighata. For 2 its namesake village, see Gaighata, North 24 Parganas.

Gaighata is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Gaighata
Constituency No. 97 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Gaighata Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Bangaon
Established	1967
Total electors	252,053
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Subrata Thakur
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 97 Gaighata Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Gobardanga municipality, Dharmapur I, Dharmapur II, Ichapur I, Ichapur II, Jaleswar I, Shimulpur and Sutia gram panchayats of Gaighata community development block, and Bergum I, Bergum II and Machhalandpur I gram panchayats of Habra I community development block.^[1]

Gaighata Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 14 Bangaon (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1] It was earlier part of Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency).^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1967	Gaighata	C.Mitra	Bangla Congress[3]
1969		Parul Saha	Bangla Congress [4]
1971		Chandi Pada Mitra	Indian National Congress[5]
1972		Chandi Pada Mitra	Indian National Congress[6]
1977		Kanti Biswas	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1982		Kanti Biswas	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8]
1987		Kanti Biswas	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1991		Prabir Banejee	Indian National Congress[10]
1996		Manmatha Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
2001		Jyotipriya Mallick	All India Trinamool Congress[12]
2006		Jyotipriya Mallick	All India Trinamool Congress[13]
2011		Manjul Krishna Thakur	All India Trinamool Congress[14]
2016		Pulin Bihari Ray	All India Trinamool Congress [15]
2021		Subrata Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party[15]

Election results

2021

In the 2021 election, Subrata Thakur of BJP defeated his nearest rival NAROTTAM BISWAS of AITC.

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Gaighata^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Subrata Thakur	100,808	47.28
	AITC	NAROTTAM BISWAS	91230	42.28
	CPI	KAPIL KRISHNA THAKUR	14838	6.96
	BSP	BEAUTY SARKAR	1385	0.65
	SUCI(C)	NANIBALA BISWAS (DAS)	814	0.38
	independent	TUSHAR KANTI HALDER	686	0.32
	independent	DR. SAJAL BISWAS	1526	0.72
	independent	BISWAJIT ROY	547	0.26
	NOTA	None of the above	1409	0.66
Turnout			213243
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	{{{swing}}}

2011

In the 2011 election, Majulkrishna Thakur of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Monoj Kanti Biswas of CPI.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Gaighata (SC) constituency^[14][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Majulkrishna Thakur	91,487	55.58	+5.15#
	CPI	Monoj Kanti Biswas	66,040	40.12	−5.67
	BJP	Sukharanjan Bepari	3,440	2.09
	BSP	Mahendra Gain	1,436
	Independent	Suman Laha	1,249
	independent	Tikendrajit Bharati	946
Turnout			164,598	88.66
	AITC hold		Swing	10.82#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006^[13] and 2001 state assembly elections^[12]Jyotipriya Mallick of Trinamool Congress won the Gaighata assembly seat defeating Manmatha Roy of CPI(M) on both occasions. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 1996,^[11] Manmatha Roy of CPI(M) defeated Prabir Banerjee of Congress. In 1991,^[10] Prabir Banejee of Congress defeated Kanti Biswas of CPI(M). Kanti Biswas of CPI(M) defeated Radha Prasad Biswas of Congress in 1987,^[9] Mira Mitra of Congress in 1982,^[8] and Radha Prasad Biswas of Congress in 1977.^[7][18]

1967-1972

Chandi Pada Mitra of Congress won in 1972^[6] and 1971.^[5] Parul Saha of Bangla Congress won in 1969.^[4] C.Mitra of Bangla Congress won in 1967.^[3] Prior to that the Gaighata seat was not there.