Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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

Bhabanipur
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Bhabanipur Location in Kolkata
Coordinates: 22°31′48″N 88°20′35″E
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Kolkata
Constituency No	159
MLA	Mamata Banerjee
Lok Sabha constituency	23. Kolkata Dakshin
Electoral system	First past the post

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 159 Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 63, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77 and 82 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.[1]

Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Bhawanipur	Mira Dutta Gupta	Indian National Congress[2]
	Kalighat	Manikuntala Sen	Communist Party of India[2]
1957	Bhawanipur	Siddhartha Shankar Ray	Indian National Congress[3]
	Kalighat	Manikuntala Sen	Communist Party of India[3]
1962	Bhawanipur	Siddhartha Shakar Ray	Independent[4]
	Kalighat	Beva Mitra	Indian National Congress[4]
1967		Beva Mitra	Indian National Congress[5]
1969		Sadhan Gupta	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1971		Rathin Talukdar	Indian National Congress[7]
1972		Rathin Talukdar	Indian National Congress[8]
Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Bhabanipur
2011	Bhabanipur	Subrata Bakshi	All India Trinamool Congress
2011 by-election		Mamata Banerjee	All India Trinamool Congress
2016		Mamata Banerjee	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2016 election

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee	65,520	47.67	-29.79
	INC	Deepa Dasmunshi	40,219	29.26	+29.26
	BJP	Chandra Kumar Bose	26,299	19.13	+19.13
	BSP	Nirmal Kanti Samaddar	669	0.49	+0.49
	Independent	Pinky Tiwari	604	0.44	+0.44
	NOTA	None of the above	2,461	1.79	+1.79
Margin of victory			25,301	18.41	-38.65
Turnout			137,455	66.82	+22.10
	AITC hold		Swing	-29.80

2011 bye election

The bypoll to the Bhowanipore seat was necessitated after sitting MLA of Trinamool Congress Subrata Bakshi resigned to make way for the Chief Minister to contest. She had not contested the state assembly elections earlier. She had to become a member of the state assembly within six months of her assuming office as Chief Minister,

West Bengal state assembly bye election, 2011: Bhabanipur constituency[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee	73,635	77.46	+12.70
	CPI (M)	Nandini Mukherjee	19,422	20.43	-7.53
	Independent	Sujoy Krishna Bhadra	809	0.85
	IJP	Ganesh Chandra Singh	488	0.51
	Independent	D. K. Sharma	422	0.44
	Independent	Jayanta Dutta	288	0.30
Majority			54,213	57.06	+20.27
Turnout			95,064	44.72	-19.06
	AITC hold		Swing	+12.98

Percentage swing with respect to General Election 2011.

2011 State assembly elections

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Bhabanipur constituency[10][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Subrata Bakshi	87,903	64.76
	CPI (M)	Narayan Jain	37,967	27.97
	BJP	Ram Chandra Jaiswal	5,078	3.74
	BSP	Dulal Mistri	1,050	0.77
	AIMF	Md. Arman (Kabir)	860	0.63
	Independent	Nishat Khan	775	0.57
	Independent	Narayan Das	759	0.55
	Independent	Badri Mondal	571	0.42
	Independent	Abhijit Bhattacharya	412	0.30
	Independent	Debasis Ghosh	341	0.25
Majority			49,918	36.79
Turnout			135,716	63.78
	AITC win (new seat)

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Kolkata summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Trinamool Congress	11	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	0	6
Forward Bloc	0	1
Rashtriya Janata Dal	0	1

Note: New constituencies – 3, constituencies abolished – 10

1951–1962 Bhawanipur

There was an assembly seat at Bhawanipur from 1951 to 1962. Contests in most years were multi cornered but mostly winners and runners are being mentioned. In independent India's first election in 1951, Mira Dutta Gupta of Indian National Congress defeated Debnath Das, Independent, Saumendra Nath Tagore of Revolutionary Socialist Party and others.[2] In 1957, Siddhartha Shankar Ray of Indian National Congress defeated Saila Sen of Praja Socialist Party.[3] In 1962, Siddhartha Shankar Ray contesting as an independent candidate defeated Pritin Kr. Roy Choudhury Indian National Congress.[4]

1951–1972 Kalighat

There was an assembly seat at Kalighat from 1951 to 1972. In 1951, Manikuntala Sen of Communist Party of India defeated Debabrata Mookherjee IndianNational Congress, Santi Bhusan Bose Bharatiya Jana Sangh and others.[2] In 1957, Manikuntala Sen CPI defeated Bivabati Mitra INC.[3] In 1962, Beva Mitra of INC defeated Manikuntala Sen of CPI.[4] 1967 B.Mitra of INC defeated D.Mazumder of CPI(M).[5] 1969 Sadhan Gupta Communist Party of India (Marxist) defeated Beva Mitra of INC Kalighat.[6] In 1971, Rathin Talukdar of INC defeated Sadhan Gupta of CPI(M).[7] In 1972, Rathin Talukdar of INC defeated Ashoke Kumar Bose of CPI(M).[8] .....

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
2. "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. 179. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
3. "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 146. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
4. "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 115. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
5. "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 137. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
6. "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 137. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
7. "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 137. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
8. "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 137. Election Commission. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
9. "Mamata Banerjee wins assembly bypoll". PTI, 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
10. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
11. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Bhabanipur. Empowering India. Retrieved 1 May 2011.