Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Behala Paschim | |
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Vidhan Sabha constituency | |
Location in Kolkata | |
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Country | India |
State | West Bengal |
District | South 24 Parganas |
Constituency No | 154 |
Type | Open |
Lok Sabha constituency | Kolkata Dakshin |
Electorate (year) | 259,713 (2011) |
Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (earlier known as Behala West) is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Behala is a neighborhood in Kolkata.
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Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 154 Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: 118, 119, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131,and 132 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation,[1]
Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]Behala West was earlier part of Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency).[2]
Members of Legislative Assembly
Election Year |
Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation |
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1951 | Behala | Biren Roy | All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar)[3] |
1957 | Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay | Communist Party of India[4] | |
1962 | Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay | Communist Party of India[5] | |
1967 | Behala West | Rabin Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6] |
1969 | Rabin Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7] | |
1971 | Rabin Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8] | |
1972 | Biswanath Chakraborty | Communist Party of India[9] | |
1977 | Nirmal Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10] | |
1982 | Nirmal Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11] | |
1987 | Nirmal Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12] | |
1991 | Nirmal Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13] | |
1996 | Nirmal Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14] | |
2001 | Partha Chatterjee | West Bengal Trinamool Congress [15] | |
2006 | Partha Chatterjee | All India Trinamool Congress[16] | |
2011 | Behala Paschim | Partha Chatterjee | All India Trinamool Congress[17] |
Election results
2011
In the 2011 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Anupam Deb Sarkar of CPI(M).
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Trinamool Congress | Partha Chatterjee | 127,870 | 62.96 | 10.57# | |
CPI(M) | Anupam Debsarkar | 68,849 | 33.90 | -11.54 | |
BJP | Amalendu Roy Chowdhary | 4,248 | 2.09 | ||
Independent | Jayanta Datta | 2,140 | |||
Turnout | 203,107 | 78.2 | |||
Trinamool Congress hold | Swing | 22.11# |
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
Party | Seats won | Seat change |
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Trinamool Congress | 26 | 19 |
Indian National Congress | 0 | 2 |
SUCI(C) | 1 | 1 |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 3 | 15 |
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 1 | 2 |
Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 8 (See template talk page for details)
1977-2006
In the 2006 and 2001 Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress won the Behala West assembly constituency defeating his nearest rivals Niranjan Mukherjee of CPI(M) in 2006[16]and Nirmal Mukherjee of CPI(M) in 2001.[15]Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Nirmal Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Kumud Bhattacharya of Congress in 1996,[14]and Lakshmi Kanta Basu of Congress in 1991.[13]Rabin Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Lakshmi Kanta Basu of Congress in 1987,[12]Aruna Ghosh Dastidar of Congress in 1982[11]and Subodh Chandra Das of Congress in 1977.[10][19]
1951-1972
Biswanath Chakraborty of CPI won in 1972.[9]Rabin Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971,[8] 1969[7]and 1967.[6]Prior to that Behala was a single seat. Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay of CPI won the Behala seat in 1962[5]and 1957.[4] In independent India’s first election in 1951,[3] Biren Roy of Forward Bloc (RG) won the Behala seat.
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