Haroa Assembly constituency

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

Haroa
Constituency No. 121 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Haroa Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Basirhat
Established	1951
Total electors	186,578
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sheikh Rabiul Islam
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2024

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, 121 Haroa Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Falti Beleghata, Dadpur, Kiritipur I, Kiritipur II, Shashan gram panchayats of Barasat II community development block, Champatala, Deganga I, Deganga II, Hadipur Jhikra II gram panchayats of Deganga community development block, and 3. Gopalpur I, Gopalpur II, Haroa and Khasbalanda gram panchayats of Haroa community development block.^[1]

Haroa Assembly constituency is part of 18. Basirhat (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party
1951[2]	Jyotish Chandra Roy Sardar		Indian National Congress
	Hemanta Kumar Ghoshal		Communist Party of India
1957[3]	Jehangir Kabir		Indian National Congress
1962[4]
1967[5]	Gangadhar Pramanick		Bangla Congress
1969[6]	Brajendra Nath Sarkar
1971[7]	Gangadhar Pramanick		Indian National Congress
1972[8]
1977[9]	Kshiti Ranjan Mondal		Communist Party of India
1982[10]
1987[11]
1991[12]
1996[13]
2001[14]
2006[15]	Ashim Kumar Das
2011[16]	Julfiquer Ali Molla		All India Trinamool Congress
2016	Haji Nurul Islam
2021
2024 By-election	Sheikh Rabiul Islam

Election Results

2024 by-election

2024 West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-election: Haroa^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sheikh Rabiul Islam	157,072	76.63	19.29
	ISF	Piyarul Islam	25,684	12.53	9.2
	BJP	Bimal Das	13,570	6.62	10.31
	INC	Habib Reza Chowdhury	3,765	1.84
	NOTA	None of the above	1,027	0.5
Majority			120,709
Turnout			201,118
	AITC hold		Swing

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Haroa

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Haji Nurul Islam	130,398	57.34	+1.01
	ISF	Kutubuddin Fathe	49,420	21.73	New
	BJP	Rajendra Saha (Somu)	38,506	16.93	+11.41
	NOTA	None of the above	2,930	1.29	−0.08
	Independent	Md. Kutubuddin	2,484	1.09
	United Socialist Party	Akher Ali Molla	2,401	1.06
	Justice and Development Party	Abul Kalam	1,256	0.55
Turnout			227,395	87.73	+0.95
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Haroa constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Haji Nurul Islam	113,001	56.33	+10.63
	CPI(M)	Imtiaz Hossain	70,594	35.19	−9.84
	BJP	Manmatha Bachar	11,078	5.52	+1.10
	BSP	Md. Nazrul Islam	3,208	1.60
	NOTA	None of the above	2,741	1.37
Turnout			200,622	86.78	+3.09
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Haroa constituency^[16][18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Julfiquer Ali Molla	76,627	45.70	+5.84#
	CPI(M)	Imtiaz Hossain	75,503	45.03	−10.40
	BJP	Subodh Kumar Chakraborty	7,409	4.42
	People’s Democratic Conference of India	Wallur Rahman	3,910
	Independent	Golam Faruque Mollah	2,401
	BSP	Dilip Bairagi	1,828
Turnout			167,678	89.87
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	16.64#

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

1977–2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections,^[15] Asim Kumar Das of CPI(M) won the 97 Haroa (SC) assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Mrityunjoy Mondal of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Kshiti Ranjan Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Lakshmikanta Mondal of Congress in 2001^[14] and 1996,^[13] Kumud Ranjan Roy of Congress in 1991,^[12] Lakshmikanta Mondal of Congress in 1987,^[11] Gangadhar Pramanick of Congress in 1982^[10] and Brajendra Nath Sarkar of Janata Party in 1977.^[9][19]

1951–1972

Gangadhar Pramanick of Congress won in 1972^[8] and 1971.^[7] Brajendra Nath Sarkar of Bangla Congress won in 1969.^[6] Gangadhar Pramanick representing Bangla Congress won in 1967.^[5] Jehangir Kabir of Congress won in 1962^[4] and 1957.^[3] In independent India's first election in 1951, Jyotish Chandra Roy Sardar of Congress and Hemanta Kumar Ghoshal of CPI won the Haroa Sandeshkhali joint seat.^[2]