Ashoknagar Assembly constituency

For the constituency in Madhya Pradesh, see Ashok Nagar Assembly constituency. For Municipality in North 24 Parganas, see Ashoknagar, North 24 Parganas.

Ashoknagar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Ashoknagar
Constituency No. 101 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Ashoknagar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Barasat
Established	1967
Total electors	257,180
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Narayan Goswami
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 101 Ashoknagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ashoknagar Kalyangarh municipality, and Habra II community development block.^[1]

Ashoknagar Assembly constituency is part of No. 17 Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1967	Sadhan Kumar Sen		Communist Party of India
1969
1971	Nani Kar		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1972	Keshab Chandra Bhattacharya		Independent politician
1977	Nani Kar		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982
1987
1991
1996	Nirode Roy Choudhury
1999^	Badal Bhattacharya		Bharatiya Janata Party
2001	Sarmistha Dutta		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2006	Satyasebi Kar
2011	Dhiman Roy		All India Trinamool Congress
2016
2021	Narayan Goswami

• ^ by-election

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal assembly election: Ashoknagar constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Narayan Goswami	93,587	43.18	−6.8
	BJP	Tanuja Chakraborty	70,055	32.32	+24.95
	ISF	Tapas Banerjee	45,795	21.13	+21.13
	BSP	Jagadish Ray	1,053	0.49	−0.32
Turnout			210,490	81.77	−4.63
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal state assembly election: Ashoknagar constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dhiman Roy	98,042	49.98	−5.41
	CPI(M)	Satyasebi Kar	75,143	38.30	−0.85
	BJP	Tanuja Chakraborty	16,429	8.37	+5.93
	BSP	Tarakeswar Hawlader	1,582	0.81
	RPI(A)	Ajit Kumar Sarkar	1,339	0.68
	CPI(ML)L	Jayasri Das	1,262	0.64
Turnout			196,181	86.40
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Dhiman Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Satyasebi Kar of CPI(M).

2011 West Bengal state assembly election: Ashoknagar constituency^[2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dhiman Roy	94,451	55.39	+6.30#
	CPI(M)	Satyasebi Kar	66,759	39.15	−6.93
	BJP	Gopal Nandi	4,168	2.44
	CPI(ML)L	Jayasri Das	1,783
	BSP	Tarakeswar Hawlader	1,428
	Independent	Tapas Roy	1,344
	Independent	Uttam Kumar Raha	6,000
Turnout			170,533	88.55
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	13.43#

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

2006

In the 2006 election, Satyasebi Kar of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Dhiman Roy of All India Trinamool Congress .

2006 West Bengal state assembly election: Ashoknagar constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Satyasebi Kar	73,250
	AITC	Dhiman Roy	71,450
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	{{{swing}}}

1967–1972

Keshab Chandra Bhattacharya, Independent, won in 1972.^[4] Nani Kar of CPI(M) won in 1971.^[5] Sadhan Kumar Sen of CPI won in 1969^[6] and 1967.^[7] Prior to that the Ashoknagar seat was not there.

1977–2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections,^[8] Satyasebi Kar of CPI(M) won the Ashoknagar assembly seat, defeating his nearest rival Dhiman Roy of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners-up are being mentioned. Sarmistha Dutta of CPI(M) defeated Ashok Krishna Dutt of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Badal Bhattacharya of BJP defeated Rekha Goswami of CPIM in the 1999 Bye election, caused by the death of sitting MLA, Nirode Roy Chowdhury.^[9] Nirode Roy Choudhury of CPI(M) defeated Dhiman Roy of Congress in 1996.^[10] Nani Kar of CPI(M) defeated Keshab Chandra Bhattacharya of Congress/ Independent in 1991,^[11] 1987,^[12] 1982^[13] and 1977.^[14][15]