Bhatpara Assembly constituency

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

Bhatpara
Constituency No. 105 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Bhatpara Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Barrackpore
Established	1951
Total electors	149,164
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Pawan Kumar Singh
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 105 Bhatpara Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos.1 to 17 of Bhatpara municipality.^[1]

Bhatpara Assembly constituency is part of No. 15 Barrackpore (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party Affiliation
1951	Dayaram Beri	Indian National Congress[2]
1957	Sitaram Gupta	Communist Party of India[3]
1962	Dayaram Beri	Indian National Congress[4][5]
1967
1969	Sitaram Gupta	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1971	Satyanarayan Singh	Indian National Congress[7][8]
1972
1977	Sitaram Gupta	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9][10]
1982
1987	Satyanarayan Singh	Indian National Congress[11]
1991	Bidyut Ganguly	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12][13]
1996
2001	Arjun Singh	Trinamool Congress[14][15][16][17]
2006
2011
2016
2019	Pawan Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party[18][19][20][21]
2021

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhatpara^[22]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Pawan Kumar Singh	57,244	53.4	−4.69
	AITC	Jitendra Shaw (Jitu)	43,557	40.63	+5.63
	INC	Dharmendra Shaw	2,169	2.02
	NOTA	None of the above	1,160	1.08	−0.76
Majority			13,687	12.76
Turnout			1,07,197	69.69
Registered electors			1,54,037
	BJP hold		Swing

2019 By-Election

Bye-Election, 2019: Bhatpara^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Pawan Kumar Singh	58,119	58.09	+44.89
	AITC	Madan Mitra	35,015	35.00	−19.57
	CPI(M)	Ranjit Kumar Mandal	3,589	3.59
	Independent	Saikat Kumar Dey	796	0.80
	INC	Khwaja Ahmed Hussain	746	0.75
	Independent	Santu Dey	725	0.72
	Independent	Sanjay Singh	138	0.14
	Independent	Goutam Maity	68	0.07
	Independent	Ritesh Kumar Singh	59	0.06
	Independent	Dharmendra Singh	36	0.04
	Independent	Pramod Singh	34	0.03
	Independent	Debraj Ghosh	30	0.03
	NOTA	None of the above	701	0.70
Majority			23,104	23.09
Turnout			1,00,056	66.99
Registered electors			1,49,371
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+32.23

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhatpara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Arjun Singh	59,253	54.57
	Independent	Jitendra Shaw	30,318	27.92
	BJP	Rumesh Kumar Handa	14,333	13.20
	Independent	Gopal Raut	788	0.73
	SUCI(C)	Partha Bhattacharya	688	0.63
	Independent	Dharmendra Singh	678	0.62
	Independent	Shatrughna Singh	504	0.46
	NOTA	None of the above	2,015	1.86
Majority			28,935	26.65
Turnout			1,08,577	75.02
Registered electors			1,44,737
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Arjun Singh of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Nepaldeb Bhattacharya of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Bhatpara constituency^[16][23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Arjun Singh	66,938	70.94	+2.78
	CPI(M)	Nepaldeb Bhattacharya	22,553	23.90	−2.58
	BJP	Pradyot Kumar Choudhary	2,099	2.22
	Independent	Manoj Kumar Chatterjee	1,632
	BSP	Sushanto Barai	637
	Independent	Gopal Rout	494
Turnout			94,353	76.62
	AITC hold		Swing	5.36#

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

1977–2006

In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections Arjun Singh of Trinamool Congress won the Bhatpara assembly seat defeating Harimohan Nath of CPI (M) in 2006^[15] and Ramprasad Kundu of CPI (M) in 2001.^[14] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Bidyut Ganguly of CPI (M) defeated Dharampal Gupta of Congress in 1996^[13] and Kedar Singh of Congress 1991.^[12] Satyanarayan Singh of Congress defeated Siva Prasad Bhattacharya of CPI (M) in 1987.^[11] Sita Ram Gupta of CPI (M) defeated Debi Ghosal of Congress in 1982^[10] and Satya Narayan Singh of Congress in 1977.^[9][24]

1951–1972

Satyanarayan Singh of Congress won in 1972^[8] and 1971.^[7] Sitaram Gupta of CPI(M) won in 1969.^[6] Dayaram Beri of Congress won in 1967^[5] and 1962.^[4] Sitaram Gupta of CPI won in 1957.^[3] In independent India's first election in 1951, Dayaram Beri of Congress won from Bhatpara.^[2]