Alipurduars (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Alipurduars (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Alipurduar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Alipurduars
Vidhan Sabha constituency
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Coordinates: 26°30′N 89°31′E
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Alipurduar
Constituency No	12
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	2 Alipurduars (ST)
Electorate (year)	200,585 (2011)

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 12 Alipurduars (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Alipurduar municipality, Alipurduar Railway Junction, Banchukamari, Chakowakheti, Mathura, Parorpar, Patlakhawa, Shalkumar I, Shalkumar II, Tapsikhata, Vivekananda II, Vivekananda I gram panchayats of Alipurduar I community development block, and Chaporerpar I, Chaporerpar II, and Tatpara II gram panchayats of Alipurduar II community development block.[1]

Alipurduars (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 2 Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency) (ST).[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Alipuduars	Pijush Kanti Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[2]
		Dhirandra Brahma Mandal	Indian National Congress[2]
1957		Pijush Kanti Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[3]
1962		Pijush Kanti Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[4]
1967		Nani Bhattacharya	Revolutionary Socialist Party[5]
1969		Nani Bhattacharya	Revolutionary Socialist Party[6]
1971		Narayan Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress[7]
1972		Narayan Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress[8]
1977		Nani Bhattacharya	Revolutionary Socialist Party[9]
1982		Nani Bhattacharya	Revolutionary Socialist Party[10]
1987		Nani Bhattacharya	Revolutionary Socialist Party[11]
1991		Nirmal Das	Revolutionary Socialist Party[12]
1996		Nirmal Das	Revolutionary Socialist Party[13]
2001		Nirmal Das	Revolutionary Socialist Party [14]
2006		Nirmal Das	Revolutionary Socialist Party[15]
2011		Debaprasad Roy	Indian National Congress[16]

2016 Election

In the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Sourav Chakraborty of TMC defeated his nearest rival Biswaranjan Sarkar of Congress.

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Alipurduars constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Sourav Chakraborty	89,695	44.088%	Winner
	INC	Biswaranjan Sarkar	77,737	38%
	BJP	Kushal Chatterjee	20,098	10%
	RSP	Nirmal Das	7,324
	SUCI(C)	Alokesh Das	2,308
	Amra Bangalee	Dalendra Nath Ray	1,341
	Independent	Santosh Kumar Balo	989
	BSP	Gouri Roy	974
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,980
Turnout			203,446

Election results

2011

In the 2011 elections, Debaprasad Roy of Congress defeated his nearest rival Kshiti Goswami of RSP.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Alipurduars constituency[16][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	Debaprasad Roy	79,604	46.02	+1.96#
	RSP	Kshiti Goswami	72,822	42.1	-7.87
	BJP	Manik Chandra Saha	8,238	4.76
	Independent	Santosh Kumar Balo	3,072	1.78
	JMM	Manohar Bhagat	1,864
	SUCI(C)	Abhijit Roy	1,508
	CPI(ML)L	Chanchal Kumar Das	1,438
	Independent	Parimal Roy	1,396
	Independent	Sanjit Das	1,301
	BSP	Mantu Barman	1,195
	Rashtriya Deshaj Party	Bishwanath Gop	530
Turnout			172,969	86.23
	INC gain from RSP		Swing	8.83

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

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Jalpaiguri district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Trinamool Congress	3	2
Congress	3	2
GJM-backed Independent	1	0
Revolutionary Socialist Party	3	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2	3

1977-2006

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2006,[15] 2001,[14] 1996[13] and 1991[12] state assembly elections, Nirmal Das of RSP defeated Sourav Chakraborty of Congress, Prasanta Narayan Majumdar of Trinamool Congress, Manindralal Rakshit of Congress and Biswa Ranjan Sarkar of Congress respectively. Nani Bhattacharya of RSP defeated Debabrata Chatterjee of Congress in 1987,[11] Pallab Ghosh of Congress in 1982[10] and Narayan Bhattachary of Congress in 1977.[9][18]

1951–1972

Narayan Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1972[8] and 1971.[7] Nani Bhattacharya of RSP won in 1969[6] and 1967.[5] Pijush Kanti Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962[4] and 1957.[3] In independent India’s first election in 1951,[2] it was a joint seat. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee and Dhirandra Brahma Mandal, both of Congress, won.

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
2. "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
3. "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
4. "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
5. "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
6. "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
7. "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
8. "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
9. "General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
10. "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
11. "General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
12. "General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
13. "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
14. "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
15. "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
16. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
17. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Alipurduars. Empowering India. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
18. "12 - Alipurduars Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 August 2009.