Mangalkot Assembly constituency

Mangalkot Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Mangalkot
Constituency No. 272 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Mangalkot Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Lok Sabha constituency	Bolpur
Established	1951
Total electors	202,581
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Apurba Chowdhury
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 272 Mangalkot assembly constituency covers Mongalkote community development block and Saragram, Gidhgram and Alampur gram panchayats of Katwa I CD Block.^[1]

Mangalkot assembly constituency is part of No. 41 Bolpur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Mangalkot	Bhakta Chandra Roy	Indian National Congress[2]
1957		No seat	[3]
1962		Narayandas Das	Communist Party of India[4]
1967		N.Sattar	Indian National Congress[5]
1969		Nikhilannanda Sar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1971		Nikhilananda Sar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1972		Jyotirmoy Mojumdar	Indian National Congress[8]
1977		Nikhilananda Sar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982		Nikhilananda Sar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1987		Nikhilananda Sar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1991		Samar Baora	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1996		Sadhana Mallick	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2001		Sadhana Mallick	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2006		Sadhana Mallick	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15][16]
2011		Sahajahan Choudhary	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[17]
2016		Siddiqullah Chowdhury	All India Trinamool Congress[18][19]
2021		Apurba Chowdhury (Achal)	All India Trinamool Congress[20][21]

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Mangalkot^[20][21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Apurba Chowdhury (Achal)	107,596	49.51	+20.98
	BJP	Rana Protap Goswami	85,259	39.23	+310.29
	CPI(M)	Sahajahan Chowdhury	16,783	7.72	−78.59
	BSP	Abdus Sabur Sk.	2,476	1.14
	SUCI(C)	Rasik Saren	1,389	0.64
	NOTA	None of the above	3,826	1.76
Turnout			217,329
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Mangalkot constituency^[18][19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Siddiqullah Chowdhury	89,812	45.87	−0.28
	CPI(M)	Sahajahan Chowdhury	77,938	39.81	−6.41
	BJP	Gopal Chattopadhyay	20,780	10.61	+6.5
	BSP	Ramkrishna Malik	3,315	1.69	+0.2
	NOTA	None of the above	2,210	1.13
	SUCI(C)	Rasik Saren	1,731	0.88
Turnout			195,786	85.75	−1.09
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Mangalkot^[22][23][24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Sajahan Choudhury	81,316	46.22	−13.02
	AITC	Apurba Chaudhuri	81,190	46.15	+9.01#
	BJP	Alok Taranga Goswami	7,224	4.11
	JDP	Anil Kumar Mardi	3,567
	BSP	Sukumar Malik	2,630
Turnout			175,927	86.84
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	-22.03#

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

1977-2006

Sadhana Mallik of CPI(M) won the Mangalkot assembly seat in 2006, 2001, and 1996 defeating Abdul Based Shekh of Trinamool Congress in 2006, Chandranath Mukherjee of Trinamool Congress in 2001, and Absar Nurul Mondal of Congress in 1996. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Samar Baora of CPI(M) defeated Hriday Kishan Sar of Congress in 1991. Nikhilananda Sar of CPI(M) defeated Jagadish Dutta of in 1987, Seikh Borshed of Congress in 1982, and Madan Chowdhury of Congress in 1977.^[25]

1951-1972

Jyotirmoy Majumder of Congress won in 1972. Nikhilananda Sar of CPI(M) won in 1971 and 1969. N.Sattar of Congress won in 1967. Narayan Das of CPI won in 1962. The Mangalkot seat was not there in 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, Bhakta Chandra Roy of Congress won the Mangalkot seat.^[26]