Habra Assembly constituency

For other uses, see Habra (disambiguation).

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

Habra
Constituency No. 100 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Habra Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
LS constituency	Barasat
Established	1951
Total electors	242,425
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Jyotipriya Mallick
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 100 Habra Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Habra municipality, and Kumra, Pritibha, Rautara and Machhalandpur II gram panchayats of Habra I community development block.^[1]

Habra Assembly constituency is part of No. 17 Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Habra	Tarun Kanti Ghose	Indian National Congress[2]
1957		Tarun Kanti Ghose	Indian National Congress[3]
1962		Tarun Kanti Ghose	Indian National Congress [4]
1967		J.P.Mukherjee	Bangla Congress[5]
1969		Tarun Kanti Ghosh	Indian National Congress[6]
1971		Tarun Kanti Ghosh	Indian National Congress[7]
1972		Tarun Kanti Ghose	Indian National Congress[8]
1977		Nirode Roy Choudhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982		Nirode Roy Choudhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1987		Kamal Sengupta (Bose)	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1991		Kamal Sengupta (Bose)	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1996		Baren Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2001		Tapati Datta	All India Trinamool Congress[14]
2006		P K Bhattacharya	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
2011		Jyotipriya Mallick	All India Trinamool Congress[16]
2016		Jyotipriya Mallick	All India Trinamool Congress
2021		Jyotipriya Mallick	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Habra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Jyotipriya Mallick	90,533
	BJP	Rahul Sinha	86,692
	CPI(M)	Rijinandan Biswas	21,994
	SUCI(C)	Probodh Kumar Sarkar	1,062
	BSP	Santosh Biswas	1,125
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Habra constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Jyotipriya Mallick	101,590	54.31	−0.69
	CPI(M)	Ashis Kantha Mukherjee	55,643	29.75	−9.05
	BJP	Govindo Das	22,967	12.28	+8.74
	SUCI	Tushar Ghosh	2,033	1.09
	BSP	Kamalendu Bala	1,359	0.73
Turnout			187,056	85.30
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Jyotipriya Mallick of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Pranab Bhattacharya of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Habra constituency^[16][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Jyotipriya Mallick	86,218	55.00	+4.87#
	CPI(M)	Pranab Bhattacharya	60,826	38.80	−7.30
	BJP	Utpal Kumar Paul	5,543	3.54
	BSP	Kamalendu Bala	2,001
	Independent	Satyen Roy	1,288
	Independent	Amar Krishna Manadal	877
Turnout			156,753	87.63
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	11.67#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 Assembly elections,^[15] P K Bhattacharyya of CPI (M) won the Habra assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Tapati Dutta of Trinamool Congress, who won the 2001 election^[14] defeating Amitava Nandy of CPI (M). Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 1996, Baren Basu of CPI (M) defeated his nearest rival Abdul Hamid Mandal of Congress.^[13] In 1991^[12] and 1987,^[11] Kamal Sengupta (Bose) of CPI (M) defeated Biman Dutta of Congress. In 1982 Nirode Roy Choudhury of CPI(M) defeated Biman Dutta of Congress.^[10] In 1977 Nirode Roy Choudhury of CPI (M) defeated his nearest rival Krishnadas Chattopadhyay of Congress.^[9][18]

1951-1972

Tarun Kanti Ghose of Congress won in 1972,^[8] 1971^[7] and 1969.^[6] J.P.Mukherjee of Bangla Congress won in 1967.^[5] Tarun Kanti Ghose won in 1962,^[4]1957^[3] and in independent India's first election in 1951.^[2]

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
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12. "General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
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14. "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
15. "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
16. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
17. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Habra. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
18. "87 - Habra Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 October 2010.