Rajarhat Gopalpur Assembly constituency

Rajarhat Gopalpur Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Rajarhat Gopalpur
Constituency No. 117 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Rajarhat Gopalpur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Dum Dum
Established	1962
Total electors	239,551
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Aditi Munshi
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 117 Rajarhat Gopalpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 6-11,15-19,22-26 of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (Before 2015 Wards 7-9 & 14-27 of Rajarhat Gopalpur Municipality) and Ward Nos. 18 and 21-27 of South Dum Dum municipality.^[1]

Rajarhat Gopalpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 16 Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1] Rajarhat (SC) was also part of Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency).^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1962	Rajarhat	Pranab Prasad Roy	Communist Party of India[3]
1967		S.N.Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[4]
1969		Rabindranath Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5]
1971		Khagendranath Mondal	Indian National Congress[6]
1972		Khagendranath Mondal	Indian National Congress[7]
1977		Rabindranath Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8]
1982		Rabindranath Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1987		Rabindranath Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1991		Rabindranath Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1996		Rabindranath Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
2001		Tanmoy Mondal	West Bengal Trinamool Congress[13]
2006		Rabindranath Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2011	Rajarhat Gopalpur	Purnendo Bose	All India Trinamool Congress[15]
2016		Purnendo Bose	All India Trinamool Congress
2021		Aditi Munshi	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Rajarhat Gopalpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Aditi Munshi	87,650	49.04	+4.74
	BJP	Samik Bhattacharya	62,354	34.89	+22.92
	CPI(M)	Subhajit Dasgupta	24,511	13.71	−26.40
	NOTA	None of the above	2,258	1.26	−1.04
Turnout			178,723	69.42
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Rajarhat Gopalpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Purnendu Bose	72,793	44.30	−15.46
	CPI(M)	Nepaldev Bhattacharya	65,919	40.11	+4.12
	BJP	Dilip Mitra	19,683	11.97	+9.42
	Independent	Ranjit Kumar Dutta	1,244	0.75	N/A
	Independent	Shyamal Mondal	895	0.54	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	3,780	2.30	N/A
Majority			6,874	4.19	−19.58
Turnout			164,314
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Purnendo Bose of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Robin Mondal of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Rajarhat Gopalpur constituency^[15][16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Purnendo Bose	89,829	59.76
	CPI(M)	Rabindranath Mondal	54,104	35.99
	BJP	Manoranjan Das	3,837	2.55
	Independent	Sunil Kumar Paul	785
	Independent	Purnendu Basu	613
	Independent	Jahar Roy	603
	Independent	Abhijit Maity	538
Majority			35,725	23.77
Turnout			150,327	78.20
	AITC win (new seat)

1977–2006 Rajarhat

In the 2006 state assembly elections,^[14] Rabindranath Mandal of CPI(M) won the Rajarhat (SC) assembly seat defeating Tanmoy Mondal of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001^[13] Tanmoy Mondal of Trinamool Congress defeated Rabindranath Mandal of CPI(M). Prior to that Rabindranath Mondal had won the seat five times in a row defeating Tanmoy Mondal representing Congress in 1996,^[12] Sukumar Roy of Congress in 1991,^[11] Biswananda Naskar of Congress in 1987, Tanmoy Mondal of Congress in 1982^[9] and Amalendu Sekhar Naskar of Congress in 1977.^[8][17]

1962–1972 Rajarhat

Khagendranath Mondal of Congress won in 1972^[7] and 1971.^[6] Rabindranath Mondal of CPI(M) won in 1969.^[5] S.N.Das of CPI(M) won in 1967.^[4] Pranab Prasad Roy of CPI(M) won in 1962.^[3] Prior to that the Rajarhat seat did not exist.