Basanti Assembly constituency

Basanti is a Legislative Assembly constituency of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian State of West Bengal. It is reserved for Scheduled Castes.

Basanti
Constituency No. 128 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Basanti Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	South 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Jaynagar
Established	1962
Total electors	260,618
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Shyamal Mondal
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Basanti Assembly constituency is composed of the following:^[1]

• Amjhara, Basanti, Bharatgarh, Charabidya, Foolmalancha, Jharkhali, Jyotishpur, Kanthalberia, Nafarganj, Ramchandrakhali and Uttar Mokamberia gram panchayats of Basanti community development block
• Atharobanki gram panchayat of Canning II community development block

Basanti Assembly constituency is a part of No. 19 Jaynagar (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party Affiliation
1962	Shakila Khatun	Indian National Congress[2]
1967		Indian National Congress[3]
1969	Ashok Chaudhury	Revolutionary Socialist Party[4]
1971	Panchanan Sinha	Indian National Congress[5]
1972		Indian National Congress[6]
1977	Kalipada Burman	Revolutionary Socialist Party[7]
1982	Subhas Naskar	Revolutionary Socialist Party[8]
1987		Revolutionary Socialist Party[9]
1991		Revolutionary Socialist Party[10]
1996		Revolutionary Socialist Party[11]
2001		Revolutionary Socialist Party[12]
2006		Revolutionary Socialist Party[13]
2011		Revolutionary Socialist Party[14]
2016	Gobinda Chandra Naskar	All India Trinamool Congress
2021	Shyamal Mondal	All India Trinamool Congress

Election Results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Basanti

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Shyamal Mondal	111,453	52.10	+2.23
	BJP	Ramesh Majhi	60,811	28.43	+22.72
	RSP	Subhas Naskar	36,688	17.15	−23.57
	NOTA	None of the above	1,907	0.89	−1.58
	Independent	Biswajit Mondal	1,635	0.76
	Independent	Debabrata Mondal	728	0.34
	SUCI(C)	Nimai Chandra Mondal	688	0.32
Turnout			213,910
	AITC hold		Swing

Legislative Assembly Election 2016

Legislative Assembly Election, 2016: Basanti (SC) constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Gobinda Chandra Naskar	90,522	49.87
	RSP	Subhas Naskar	73,915	40.72	−8.35
	BJP	Pankaj Roy	10,373	5.71	+1.89
	NOTA	None of the above	4,487	2.47
	MPOI	Himanshu Kayal	1,141	0.63
	Independent	Taranga Mondal	1,069	0.59
Turnout			181,507	80.61	−0.72
	AITC gain from RSP		Swing

Legislative Assembly Election 2011

Legislative Assembly Election, 2011: Basanti^[14][15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RSP	Subhas Naskar	72,772	49.07	−17.27
	INC	Arnab Roy	66,636	44.87
	BJP	Amal Kanti Roy	5,676	3.82
	People’s Democratic Conference of India	Samir Das	3,333	2.24
Turnout			148,516	81.33
	RSP hold		Swing

Legislative Assembly Elections 1977-2006

Subhas Naskar of RSP won the Basanti Assembly constituency from 1982 to 2006, defeating Amal Kanti Roy of BJP in 2006,^[13] Jayanta Sarkar of AITC in 2001^[12] and 1996,^[11] Bipin Behari Sardar of INC in 1991^[10] and 1987,^[8] and Jnanendranath Majumdar of INC in 1982.^[9] Kalipada Barman of RSP defeated Chittaranjan Naskar of INC in 1977.^[7][16]

Legislative Assembly Elections 1962-1972

Panchanan Sinha of INC won in 1972^[6] and 1971.^[5] Ashok Chaudhuri of RSP won in 1969.^[4] Shakila Khatun of INC won in 1967^[3] and 1962.^[2] The seat did not exist prior to that.