Katulpur Assembly constituency

Katulpur is an assembly constituency in Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Katulpur
Constituency No. 256 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Katulpur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Bankura
LS constituency	Bishnupur
Established	1957
Total electors	189,915
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Harakali Protiher
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 256 Katulpur Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Deshra-koyalpara, Gopinathpur, Kotulpur, Lego, Mirzapur and Sihar gram panchayats of Kotulpur community development block; Gelia, Jagannathpur, Kuchiakol, Maynapur, Salda, Uttarbarh, Hetia, Routkhanda and Shyamnagar gram panchayats of Joypur community development block.^[1]

Katulpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 37 Bishnupur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Members[2]	Party
2011	Saumitra Khan	Indian National Congress
2016	Shyamal Santra	All India Trinamool Congress
2021	Harakali Protiher	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2014 bye election

The bypoll to the Kotulpur seat was necessitated after sitting MLA of Congress Soumitra Khan Switched To Trinamool Congress & Elected as MP of Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituency.

West Bengal state assembly bye election, 2014: Kotulpur constituency^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Shyamal Santra	98,878	52.64	−25.98
	CPI(M)	Sital Kaibartya	58,521	31.15	−7.47
	BJP	Lakshmi Kanta Majumdar	23,037	12.26	+26.53
	INC	Akshay Santra	7,419	3.95	−7.05
Turnout			1,90,898	100.4%
	AITC gain from INC		Swing

Percentage swing with respect to General Election 2011.

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Katulpur^[4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Saumitra Khan	83,355	47.40	+12.13#
	CPI(M)	Purnima Bagdi	81,922	46.59	−18.14
	BJP	Tarun Kotal	6,180	3.51
	SUCI(C)	Mohan Santra	4,389
Turnout			175,846	92.59
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	30.27#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Kalpana Koley of CPI(M) won the Katulpur assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Aloka Sen Majumdar of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Manashi Ghose of CPI(M) defeated Sunil Das of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Gouripada Dutta of CPI(M) defeated Nikhil Bose of Congress in 1996, Akshay Kumar Koley of Congress in 1991, and Bablu Kolay of Congress in 1987. Gunadhar Choudhury of CPI(M) defeated Aksay Kumar Koley of Congress in 1982 and 1977.^[6]

1957-1972

Akshay Kumar Kolay of Congress won in 1972. Jatadhari Mukhopadhyay of CPI(M) won in 1971, Niranjan Bhadra of Bangla Congress won in 1969. S.Sarkar of Bangla Congress won in 1967. Jagannath Kolay of Congress won in 1962 and 1957. Prior to that the Katulpur seat was not there.^[7]

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
2. "Katulpur Election 2021: Assembly Elections News, Katulpur Constituency, Vidhan Sabha Seat". News18. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
3. "Mamata Banerjee wins assembly bypoll". PTI, 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
4. "West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election, 2011". Election Commission of India. 16 August 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
5. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). Katulpur. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
6. "254 - Kotulpur Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
7. "Statistical Reports of Assembly Elections". General Election Results and Statistics. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2011.