Raidighi Assembly constituency

Raidighi Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian State of West Bengal.

Raidighi
Constituency No. 134 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Raidighi Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	South 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Mathurapur
Established	2011
Total electors	273,472
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Aloke Jaldata
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, Raidighi Assembly constituency is composed of the following:^[1]

• Abad Bhagawanpur, Debipur, Krishnachandrapur, Lalpur, Nalua and Shankarpur gram panchayats of Mathurapur I community development block
• Mathurapur II community development block

Raidighi Assembly constituency is a part of No. 20 Mathurapur (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
2011	Raidighi	Debashree Roy	All India Trinamool Congress[2]
2016		Debashree Roy	All India Trinamool Congress
2021		Aloke Jaldata	All India Trinamool Congress

Election Results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Raidighi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Aloke Jaldata	115,707	48.47	+1.99
	BJP	Santanu Bapuli	80,139	33.57	+30.03
	CPI(M)	Kanti Ganguly	36,931	15.47	−30.45
	SUCI(C)	Gunasindhu Haldar	2,862	1.20	−0.88
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,462	0.61	−0.18
	BSP	Mintu Mistri	795	0.33	−0.09
	Independent	Souvik Bapuli	532	0.22
	Independent	Bablu Haldar	292	0.12
Majority			35,568	14.90
Turnout			238,720	91.30	+1.44
	AITC hold		Swing

Legislative Assembly Election 2016

Legislative Assembly Election, 2016: Raidighi^[2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Debashree Roy	1,01,161	46.48
	CPI(M)	Kanti Ganguly	99,932	45.92
	BJP	Sanghamitra Chaudhuri	7,699	03.54
	SUCI(C)	Gunasindhu Haldar	4,520	02.08
	BSP	Rajendra Naskar	916	00.42
	LJP	Prasanta Mondal	191	00.09
	Independent	Purnendu Shekhar Mondal	789	00.36
	Independent	Amiya Gangopadhyay	373	00.17
	Independent	Arun Kumar Gayen	338	00.16
	NOTA	None of the above	1,710	00.79	−−−
Majority			1,229	00.56
Turnout			2,17,640	89.30
	AITC hold		Swing

Legislative Assembly Election 2011

Legislative Assembly Election, 2011: Raidighi^[2][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Debashree Roy	93,236	50.11
	CPI(M)	Kanti Ganguly	87,683	47.12
	BJP	Dwijendranath Halder	3,369	1.81
	Independent	Debasree Kayal	1,295
	BSP	Dulal Chand Ghorami	1,245
	Independent	Ajay Das	542
Turnout			186,075	89.86
	AITC win (new seat)

References

Notes

Citations

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
2. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
3. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Raidighi. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
4. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Raidighi. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2011.