Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency

Not to be confused with Kharagpur Assembly constituency.

Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Kharagpur Sadar
Constituency No. 224 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Kharagpur Sadar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Paschim Medinipur
Lok Sabha constituency	Medinipur
Established	1951
Total electors	194,006
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Hiran Chatterjee
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 224 Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kharagpur municipality and Kharagpur Railway Settlement of Kharagpur I community development block.^[1]

Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency is part of No. 34 Medinipur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

• 1957: Narayan Choubey (CPI)
• 1967: Narayan Choubey (CPI)
• 1969: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC)
• 1972: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC)
• 1977: Sudhir Das Sharma (Janata Party)
• 1982: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC)
• 2001: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC)
• 2006: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC)
• 2011: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC)^[2]
• 2016: Dilip Ghosh (BJP)
  • Dilip Ghosh was elected to Lok Sabha in 2019 and vacated this Vidhan Sabha seat.
• ^2019^ by-poll: Pradip Sarkar (TMC)
• 2021: Hiran Chatterjee (BJP)

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kharagpur Sadar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Hiran Chatterjee	79,607	46.45	+12.43
	AITC	Pradip Sarkar	75,836	44.25	−3.41
	INC	Reeta Sharma	10,705	6.3	−7.98
	NOTA	None of the above	2,392	1.54	+0.43
	HUMP	D. Madhusudan Rao	1,701	0.99
	SUCI(C)	Suranjan Mahapatra	807	0.47
Majority			3,771	2.23
Turnout			1,71,460	73.06
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2019 Bypoll

A bye- poll was necessitated due to the election of the incumbent MLA, Dilip Ghosh, to the Lok Sabha.

Bye-election, 2019: Kharagpur Sadar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Pradip Sarkar	72,893	47.66	+25.93
	BJP	Prem Chandra Jha	52,040	34.02	−5.27
	INC	Chittaranjan Mandal	22,631	14.28	−7.45
	NOTA	None of the above	1,705	1.11	−0.41
	IND	Mata Prasad Gupta	1,273	0.83	+0.22
Majority			20,853	13.64	+9.6
Turnout			1,52,959	68.00
	AITC gain from BJP		Swing

2016 Vidhan Sabha

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kharagpur Sadar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dilip Ghosh	61,446	39.29	32.50
	INC	Gyan Singh Sohanpal	55,137	35.25	19.81
	AITC	Rama Prasad Tewary	34,086	21.73	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Suranjan Mahapatra	1,308	0.83	0.28
	BSP	Sk. Asgar Ali	1,058	0.67	0.01
	NOTA	None of the above	2,392	1.52	N/A
Majority			6,309	4.04	19.5
Turnout			1,56,487	71.71
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	26.16

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kharagpur Sadar^[3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Gyan Singh Sohanpal	75,425	55.54
	CPI(M)	Anil Kumar Das	43,056	31.43
	BJP	Prem Chandra Jha	9,303	6.79
	IND	Satya Deo Sharma	5,191	3.78
	SUCI(C)	Suranjan Mahapatra	1,525	1.11
Majority			32,369	23.63
Turnout			1,38,134	70.78
	INC hold		Swing	#

.# CPI(M) did not contest this seat in 2006.

1977-2006

Gyan Singh Sohanpal of Congress won the Kharagpur Town assembly seat for six times in a row from 1982 to 2006 (for earlier victories see below), defeating Prem Chandra Jha of RJD in 2006, Lalji Pandey of CPI(M) in 2001, Kalidas Nayek of CPI(M) in 1996 and 1991, and Jatindra Mitra of CPI(M) in 1987 and 1982. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sudhir Das Sharma of Janata Party defeated Jatindra Mitra of CPI(M) in 1977.^[5]

1951-1972

Gyan Singh Sohanpal of Congress won in 1972, 1971 and 1969. Narayan Choubey of CPI won in 1967, 1962 and 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, Kharagpur had a single seat, which was won by Muhammad Momtaz Moulana of Congress.^[6]