Sreerampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Sreerampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (previously called 180,Serampore and changed to 186,Sreerampur for the 2011 election onwards)[1] is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

186, Sreerampur Vidhan Sabha constituency
Vidhan Sabha constituency
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Coordinates: 22°45′00″N 88°20′00″E
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly
Constituency No.	186
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	27. Srerampur
Electorate (year)	206,868 (2011)

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 186 Sreerampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 3 to 19 and 25 of Serampore Municipality, Rishra Municipality, Rajyadharpur and Rishra gram panchayats of Sreerampur Uttarpara community development block.[2]

Sreerampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 27 Srerampur (Lok Sabha constituency).[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Serampore	Jitendra Nath Lahiri	Indian National Congress[3]
1957	Serampore	Panchu Gopal Bhaduri	Communist Party of India[4]
1962	Serampore	Panchu Gopal Bhaduri	Communist Party of India[5]
1967	Serampore	Gopal Das Nag	Indian National Congress[6]
1969	Serampore	Panchu Gopal Bhaduri	Communist Party of India[7]
1971	Serampore	Gopal Das Nag	Indian National Congress[8]
1972	Serampore	Gopal Das Nag	Indian National Congress[9]
1977	Serampore	Kamal Krishna Bhattacharya	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1982	Serampore	Arun Kumar Goswami	Indian National Congress[11]
1987	Serampore	Arun Kumar Goswami	Indian National Congress[12]
1991	Serampore	Arun Kumar Goswami	Indian National Congress[13]
1996	Serampore	Jyoti Chowdhury	Indian National Congress[14]
2001	Serampore	Dr. Ratna De (Nag)	All India Trinamool Congress[15]
2006	Serampore	Dr. Ratna De (Nag)	All India Trinamool Congress[16]
2009 by election	Serampore	Dr. Sudipto Roy	All India Trinamool Congress[17]
2011	Sreerampur	Dr. Sudipto Roy	All India Trinamool Congress
2016	Sreerampur	Dr. Sudipto Roy	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

In the 2016 election, Dr. Sudipto Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Subhankar Sarkar of Congress.

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sreerampur constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Dr. Sudipto Roy	74,995	43.78
	INC	Subhankar Sarkar	65,088	37.99
	BJP	Bhaskar Bhattacharya	24,059	14.04
	BSP	Samir Mitra	1,584	0.92
	SUCI(C)	Tapan Chowdhury	1,523
	Independent	Mangal Sarkar	1,082
	NOTA	None of the above	2,965
Majority			9,907
Turnout			171,296
	AITC hold		Swing

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. Intervening by election not taken into account because of lack of data.

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Hooghly district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Trinamool Congress	16	14
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1	12
Forward bloc	1	2
Marxist Forward Bloc	0	1

Note: New constituencies – 1, constituencies abolished – 2

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Sreerampur constituency[1][18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Dr. Sudipto Roy	97,540	63.83	-0.90#
	CPI	Partha Sarathi Rej	45,849	30.00	1.65
	BJP	Vidyasagar Pandey	7,101	4.65
	BSP	Sabitri Das	2,328	1.52
Majority			51,691	33.83
Turnout			152,818	73.87
	AITC hold		Swing	0.75#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. Intervening by election not taken into account because of lack of data.

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Hooghly district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Trinamool Congress	16	14
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1	12
Forward bloc	1	2
Marxist Forward Bloc	0	1

Note: New constituencies – 1, constituencies abolished – 2

2009 bye election

The bypoll to the Serampore Occurred Due To Resignation of the sitting MLA of AITC, Dr. Ratna De Nag. Who Was Elected In Indian Parliament from Hooghly in 16 May 2009.

West Bengal state assembly bye election, 2009: Serampore constituency[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Dr. Sudipto Roy	56,979
	CPI	Prasanta Mukherjee	27,301
Turnout			168,756	86.46
	AITC hold		Swing

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI vote percentage, in 2006. Data for comparison not available for the 2009 by-election.

1977-2009

In the 2009 by elections consequent to the election of Dr. Ratna De (Nag) to Parliament from Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency), Dr. Sudipta Roy of Trinamool Congress won the 180 Serampore assembly seat.[17]

In the state assembly elections, contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Dr. Ratna De (Nag) defeated Dhirendra Nath Dasgupta of CPI in 2006[16] and Kesto Mukherjee, Independent, in 2001.[15] Jyoti Chowdhury of Congress defeated Asimes Goswami of CPI(M) in 1996.[14] Arun Kumar Goswami of Congress defeated Sanjay Deb Banerjee of Janata Dal in 1991,[13] Ajit Bag of CPI(M) in 1987,[12] and Kamal Krishna Bhattacharjee of CPI(M) in 1982.[11] Kamal Krishna Bhattacharjee of CPI(M) defeated Gopal Das Nag of Congress in 1977.[10][20]

1951-1972

Gopal Das Nag of Congress won in 1972[9] and 1971.[8] Panchu Gopal Bhaduri of CPI won in 1969.[7] Gopal Das Nag of Congress won in 1967.[6] Panchu Gopal Bhaduri of CPI won in 1962[5] and 1957.[4] In independent India's first election in 1951 Jitendra Nath Lahiri of Congress won the Serampore seat.[3]

References

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