Basirhat Uttar Assembly constituency

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

Basirhat Uttar
Constituency No. 125 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Basirhat Uttar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Basirhat
Established	1951
Total electors	2,38,426
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rafikul Islam Mondal
Party	AITC
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, 125 Basirhat Uttar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Basirhat II community development block, and Amlani, Bhebia, Makhal Gachha, Murarisha gram panchayats of Hasnabad community development block.^[1]

Basirhat Uttar Assembly constituency is part of 18. Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency.^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party Affiliation
Basirhat
1951	Profulla Nath Banerjee		Indian National Congress[2]
1957[3]
1962	Bijesh Chandra Sen[4]
1967	A.B. Bandopadhyay		Communist Party of India[5]
1969[6]
1971	Lalit Kumar Ghosh		Indian National Congress[7]
1972[8]
1977	Narayan Mukherjee		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982[10]
1987[11]
1991[12]
1996[13]
2001[14]
2006[15]
Basirhat Uttar
2011	Mostafa Bin Qaseem		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[16]
2011^	ATM Abdullah		Trinamool Congress[17]
2016	Rafikul Islam Mondal		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021			Trinamool Congress

• ^ denotes by-election

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Basirhat Uttar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rafikul Islam Mondal	137,216	57.55	12.01
	ISF	Mohammad Baijid Amin	47,865	20.08	New
	BJP	Narayan Chandra Mondal	47,505	19.92	13.81
	Independent	Taslima Khatun	2,014	0.84	New
	NOTA	None of the above	1,952	0.82	0.42
	Independent	Mohammad Kased Ali Sardar	1,874	0.79	New
Majority			89,351	37.47	37.24
Turnout			2,38,426	88.95	0.67
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Basirhat Uttar constituency^[16][18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Rafikul Islam Mondal	97,828	45.74	8.85
	AITC	ATM Abdullah	97,336	45,51	11.44
	BJP	Tarafan Ali Gazi	13,072	6.11	1.62
	BSP	Abul Kasem Dhali	3,006	1.41
	NOTA	None of the above	2,636	1.24	N/A
Majority			492	0.23	19.83
Turnout			2,13,885	89.62
	CPI(M) gain from AITC		Swing

The percentage changes of the 2016 election is calculated based upon the 2011 Bypoll.

2011 by-election

A by-election in 2011 was necessitated by the death of Mostafa bin Kassem, the CPI(M) MLA from Basirhat Uttar, who was found dead outside Kyd street MLA's Hostel on 29 May 2011.^[19]

West Bengal state assembly bye election, 2011: Basirhat Uttar constituency^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	ATM Abdullah	87,899	56.95	14.12
	CPI(M)	Subid Ali Gazi	56,948	36.89	8.30
	BJP	Subodh Kumar Chakraborty	6,938	4.49	1.08
	Independent	Ajit Pramanick	2,964
Turnout			154,339	80.35	6.49
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

The percentage changes of the bypoll is calculated from the 2011 assembly election.

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Basirhat Uttar constituency^[16][20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Mostafa Bin Qaseem	75,576	45.19
	AITC	Sardar Amzad Ali	71,632	42.83
	BJP	Somen Mandal	9,316	5.57
	People’s Democratic Conference of India	Rafikul Mandal	7,327
	BSP	Prosanta Biswas	1,829
	All india Minorities Front	Anwar Hossain Mollah	1,569
Turnout			167,248	86.84
	CPI(M) win (new seat)

As per 2011 census the total population of basirhat uttar is 338937,Hindu 115986,Muslim 222264,Other 687.Hindu 34.22%,Muslim 65.58%,Other 0.20%.

1977-2006 Basirhat

During the period Narayan Mukherjee of CPI(M) won seven elections in a row from 95 Basirhat assembly constituency, defeating his nearest rivals Asit Majumdar of INC in 2006,^[15] Souren Sen of Trinamool Congress in 2001,^[14] Asit Majumdar of Congress in 1996,^[13] Dilip Mazumdar of Congress in 1991^[12] and 1987,^[11] and Debi Prasad Nanda of Congress in 1982^[10] and 1977.^[9][21]

1951-1972 Basirhat

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Lalit Kumar Ghosh of Congress won in 1972^[8] and 1971.^[7] A.B.Bandopadhyay of CPI won in 1969^[6] and 1967.^[5] Bijesh Chandra Sen of Congress won in 1962.^[4] Profulla Nath Banerjee of Congress won in 1957^[3] and in independent India's first election in 1951.^[2]