Jaynagar Assembly constituency

Jaynagar Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian State of West Bengal. It is reserved for Scheduled Castes.

Jaynagar
Constituency No. 136 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Jaynagar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	South 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Jaynagar
Established	1951
Total electors	239,855
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Biswanath Das
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Jaynagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following:^[1]

• Jaynagar Majilpur municipality
• Baharu Kshetra, Dakshin Barasat, Harinarayanpur, Rajapur Korabeg, Sripur and Uttar Durgapur gram panchayats of the Jaynagar I community development block
• Beledurganagar, Futigoda, Gardoani, Mayahauri, Mayda and Sahajadapur gram panchayats of the Jaynagar II community development block

Jaynagar Assembly constituency is a part of the No. 19 Jaynagar (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year		Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
	1952	Jaynagar	Subodh Banarjee	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[2]
			Dinataran Moni	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[2]
	1957		Subodh Banarjee	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[3]
			Renupada Halder	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[3]
	1962	Jaynagar Uttar	Jnantosh Chakraborty	Indian National Congress[4]
		Jaynagar Dakshin	Anadi Mohan Tanti	Indian National Congress[4]
	1967	Jaynagar	Subodh Banarjee	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[5]
	1969		Subodh Banarjee	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[6]
	1971		Subodh Banarjee	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[7]
	1972		Prasun Ghosh	Indian National Congress[8]
	1977		Debaprasad Sarkar	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[9]
	1982		Debaprasad Sarkar	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[10]
	1987		Debaprasad Sarkar	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[11]
	1991		Debaprasad Sarkar	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[12]
	1996		Debaprasad Sarkar	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[13]
	2001		Debaprasad Sarkar	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[14]
	2006		Debaprasad Sarkar	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[15]
	2011		Tarun Kanti Naskar	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[16]
	2016		Biswanath Das	All India Trinamool Congress
	2021		Biswanath Das	All India Trinamool Congress

Election Results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Jaynagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Biswanath Das	104,952	51.85	+15.62
	BJP	Rabin Sardar	66,269	32.74	+22.21
	CPI(M)	Apurba Pramanik (Apu)	17,368	8.58
	SUCI(C)	Tarun Kanti Naskar	9,423	4.65	−17.45
	Independent	Swapan Kumar Naskar	1,435	0.71
	NOTA	None of the above	1,164	0.58	−0.29
	BSP	Sankar Deb Mondal	811	0.40	−0.07
	BMP	Monotosh Naskar	574	0.28	No change
	LJP	Utpal Mandal	248	0.12
	RPI(A)	Amitav Naskar	187	0.09
Turnout			202,431	84.36	−0.02
	AITC hold		Swing

Legislative Assembly Election 2016

Legislative Assembly Election, 2016: Jaynagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Biswanath Das	64,582	36.23
	INC	Sujit Patwari	49,531	27.78	+18.24
	SUCI(C)	Tarun Kanti Naskar	39,397	22.10	−27.28
	BJP	Utpal Kumar Mondal	18,055	10.53	+3.84
	NOTA	None of the above	1,548	0.87
	Independent	Tarun Naskar	1,417	0.79
	Independent	Dilip Sardar	1,257	0.71
	BSP	Amulya Kumar Sardar	841	0.47
	Independent	Sankar Deb Mondal	718	0.40
	BMP	Manabendra Nath Halder	492	0.28
	Independent	Taranga Mondal	431	0.24
Turnout			178,269	84.38	+1.47
	AITC gain from SUCI(C)		Swing

Legislative Assembly Election 2011

Legislative Assembly Election, 2011: Jaynagar^[16][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SUCI(C)	Tarun Kanti Naskar	71,566	49.38	+3.74
	CPI(M)	Shyamali Halder	44,976	31.03	−4.31
	INC	Manoranjan Halder	13,829	9.54
	BJP	Utpal Kumar Mondal	9,694	6.69
	People's Democratic Conference of India	Sanjay Kumar Roy	2,985
	Independent	Sanatan Halder	1,890
Turnout			144,940	82.91
	SUCI(C) hold		Swing	6.05

Legislative Assembly Elections 1977–2006

Debaparasad Sarkar of SUCI(C) has represented the Jaynagar Assembly constituency from 1977 to 2006. He defeated his nearest rivals, Ashish Ghosh of CPI(M) in 2006,^[15] Abdul Hossain Laskar of CPI(M) in 2001,^[14] Rabindranath Basu of CPI(M) in 1996,^[13] Prashanta Sarkhel of INC in 1991,^[12] Kumud Bhattacharya of ICS in 1987^[11] and 1982,^[10] and Jnantosh Chakraborty of Janata Party in 1977.^[9][18]

Legislative Assembly Elections 1952–1972

Prasun Ghosh of INC won in 1972.^[8] Subodh Banarjee of SUCI(C) won in 1971,^[7] 1969^[6] and 1967.^[5] In 1962,^[4] Jaynagar Assembly constituency had two seats. Jnantosh Chakraborty of INC won the Jaynagar Uttar seat and Anadi Mohan Tanti of INC won the Jaynagar Dakshin seat. In 1957 and 1952, Jaynagar Assembly constituency had joint seats. In 1957,^[3] Subodh Banerjee and Renupada Halder, both of SUCI(C), won. In 1952, Subodh Banerjee and Dinataran Moni, both of SUCI(C), won.^[2]