Bally Assembly constituency

Bally Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Bally
Constituency No. 169 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Bally Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Howrah
Lok Sabha constituency	Howrah
Established	1951
Total electors	142,337
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rana Chatterjee
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 169 Bally Assembly constituency is composed of Bally Municipality which is merged with Howrah Municipal Corporation now.

Bally Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party
1951	Ratan Moni Chattopadhyay	Indian National Congress[2]
1957	Motilal Basu	Indian National Congress[3]
1962	Shankar Lal Mukhopadhyay	Indian National Congress[4]
1967	S.N.Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[5]
1969	Patit Paban Pathak	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1971	Patit Paban Pathak	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1972	Bhabani Shankar Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[8]
1977	Patit Paban Pathak	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982	Patit Paban Pathak	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1987	Supriyo Basu	Indian National Congress[11]
1991	Patit Paban Pathak	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1996	Kanika Ganguly	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2001	Kanika Ganguly	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2006	Kanika Ganguly	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
2011	Sultan Singh	Trinamool Congress[16]
2016	Baishali Dalmiya	Trinamool Congress
2021	Dr. Rana Chatterjee	Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

In the 2021 election, Dr. Rana Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Baishali Dalmiya of BJP.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Bally

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dr. Rana Chatterjee	53,347	42.38	−4.59
	BJP	Baishali Dalmiya	47,110	37.43	+25.9
	CPI(M)	Dipsita Dhar	22,040	17.51	−15.74
	NOTA	None of the above	1,205	0.96
Turnout			1,25,872
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Baishali Dalmiya of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Saumendranath Bera of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Bally constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Baishali Dalmiya	52,654	46.97	−3.45
	CPI(M)	Saumendranath Bera	37,299	33.25	−10.86
	BJP	Kaushik Chakraborty	17,418	15.53	+12.97
	NOTA	None of the above	1,598	1.42
Turnout			1,12,192	70.15	−3.38
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Sultan Singh of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kanika Ganguly of CPI(M).

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sultan Singh	52,770	50.42	+12.86#
	CPI(M)	Kanika Ganguly	46,170	44.11	−15.10
	BJP	Bharat Bhushan Ojha	2,677	2.56
	Independent	Suman Dolui	947
	JD(U)	Saumadip Chatterjee	458
	Independent	Shibashis Sarkar	455
	Independent	Bholanath Pramanik	266
	Independent	Subhasish Sarkar	249
	Independent	Umed Singh Chaudhuri	143
	Independent	Tripti Ghosh	137
	Independent	Keya Ganguly	135
	Independent	Jayanta Sarkar	129
	Independent	Anjana Chowdhury	129
Turnout			104,665	73.53
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	27.96#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.

2006

In the 2006 election, Kanika Ganguly of CPI(M) defeated her nearest rival Rekha Raut of AITC.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Bally constituency^[15][18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Kanika Ganguly	54,262	50.42
	AITC	Rekha Raut	24,737	44.11
	INC	Tapan Ganguly	9,690	2.56
	Independent	Sankar Kumar Das	1203
	SDPI	Biswajit Mitra (Kajal)	732
	Independent	Dev Kumar Sharma	486
	Independent	Ashok Kumar Patra	265
	Independent	Guru Chand Mondal	262
Turnout			91,637	73.53
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	27.96#

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

2001

In the 2001 election, Kanika Ganguly of CPI(M) defeated her nearest rival Supriyo Basu of INC.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2001: Bally constituency^[14][19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Kanika Ganguly	92,876	72.63%
	INC	Supriyo Basu	32,423	25.36%
	NCP	Moushumi Chatterjee	626	0.49%
	Independent	Santosh Adhikary	624	0.49%
	Independent	Debala Das	418	0.33%
	Independent	Madan Mohan Das	370	0.29%
	Independent	Raj Kishor Prasad	203	0.16%
	Independent	Fakra Alam	191	0.15%
	Independent	Pradip Kumar Basak	139	0.11%
Turnout			1,27,870	78.24%
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	27.96#

.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress+Congress vote percentages taken together in 2001.

1977-2006

In the 2006,^[15] 2001^[14] and 1996^[13] state assembly elections, Kanika Ganguly of CPI(M) won the Bally assembly seat defeating her nearest rivals, Rekha Raut of Trinamool Congress in 2006, Supriyo Basu of Congress in 2001 and Bani Kumar Singha of Congress in 1996. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Patit Paban Pathak of CPI(M) defeated Supriyo Basu of Congress in 1991.^[12] Supriyo Basu of Congress defeated Patit Paban Pathak of CPI(M) in 1987.^[11] Patit Paban Pathak defeated Bani Kumar Singha of Congress in 1982^[10] and Ganesh Pathak of Congress in 1977.^[9][20]

1951-1971

Bhabani Shankar Mukherjee of Congress won in 1972. Patit Paban Pathak of CPI(M) won in 1971^[7] and 1969.^[6] S.N.Mukherjee of Congress won in 1967.^[5] Shankar Lal Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962.^[4] Monilal Basu of Congress won in 1957.^[5] In independent India's first election in 1951, Ratan Moni Chattopadhyay of Congress won the Bally seat.^[2]