Singur Assembly constituency

Singur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Singur
Constituency No. 188 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Singur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly
Lok Sabha constituency	Hooghly
Established	1951
Total electors	205,434
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Becharam Manna
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 188 Singur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Anandanagore, Bagdanga Chinamore, Baruipara Paltagarh, Beraberi, Bighati, Bouichipota, Bora, Borai Pahalampur, Gopalnagore, Mirzapur-Bankipur, Nasibpur, Singur I and Singur II gram panchayats of Singur community development block and Begampur, Kapasaria and Panchghora gram panchayats of Chanditala II community development block.^[1]

Singur Assembly constituency is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Singoor	Sourendra Nath Saha	Communist Party of India[2]
		Ajit Kumar Basu	Communist Party of India[2]
1957	Singur	Provakar Pal	Indian National Congress[3]
1962		Provakar Pal	Indian National Congress[4]
1967		Provakar Pal	Indian National Congress[5]
1969		Gopal Bandopadhyay	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1971		Ajit Kumar Basu	Communist Party of India[7]
1972		Ajit Kumar Basu	Communist Party of India[8]
1977		Dr Gopal Bandopadhyay	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982		Tarapada Sadhukhan	Indian National Congress[10]
1987		Bidyut Kumar Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1991		Bidyut Kumar Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1996		Bidyut Kumar Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2001		Rabindranath Bhattacharjee	All India Trinamool Congress[14]
2006		Rabindranath Bhattacharjee	All India Trinamool Congress[15]
2011		Rabindranath Bhattacharjee	All India Trinamool Congress[16]
2016		Rabindranath Bhattacharjee	All India Trinamool Congress
2021		Becharam Manna	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Singur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Becharam Manna	101,077	48.15
	BJP	Rabindranath Bhattacharya	75,154	35.8
	CPI(M)	Srijan Bhattacharyya	30,016	14.3
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Singur constituency^[16][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rabindranath Bhattacharjee	96,212	50.00%
	CPI(M)	Rabin Deb	75,885	39.50%
	BJP	Souren Patra	14,264	7.40%
	Independent	Dwijaprasad Bhattacharya	2,606	1.40%
	PDS	Uma Das (Paul)	1,712	0.90%
	SUCI(C)	Shankar Jana	1,667	0.90%
Majority			20,327	(10.6%)
Turnout			1,92,346	(84.8%)
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Singur constituency^[16][18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rabindranath Bhattacharjee	100,869	57.61	+4.29#
	CPI(M)	Dr. Asit Das	66,058	37.73	−8.95
	BJP	Souren Patra	8,158	4.66
Turnout			175,085	85.23
	AITC hold		Swing	13.24#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006^[15] and 2001^[14] state assembly elections, Rabindranath Bhattacharya of Trinamool Congress won the Singur assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals, Srikanta Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) and Bidyut Kumar Das of CPI(M) respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Bidyut Kumar Das of CPI(M) defeated Dwijaprosad Bhattacharya of Congress in 1996,^[13] Chandra Sekhar Back of Congress in 1991^[12] and Tarapada Sadhukhan of Congress in 1987.^[11] Tarapada Sadhukhan of Congress defeated Gopal Bandopadhyay of CPI(M) in 1982.^[10] Gopal Bandopadhyay of CPI(M) defeated Tarapada Sadhukhan of Congress in 1977.^[9][19]

1951-1972

Ajit Kumar Basu of CPI won in 1972^[8] and 1971.^[7] Gopal Bandopadhyay of CPI(M) won in 1969.^[6] Provaakar Pal of Congress won in 1967,^[5] 1962^[4] and 1957.^[3] In independent India's first election in 1951^[2] Singoor (as spelt then) had a double seat. It was won by Sourendra Nath Saha and Ajit Kumar Basu, both of CPI.