Budge Budge Assembly constituency

Budge Budge Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian State of West Bengal.

Budge Budge
Constituency No. 156 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Budge Budge Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	South 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Diamond Harbour
Established	1951
Total electors	255,986
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ashok Kumar Deb
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, Budge Budge Assembly constituency is composed of the following:^[1]

• Budge Budge municipality
• Pujali municipality
• Budge Budge I community development block
• Dongaria Raipur, Kasipur Alampur, North Bawali and South Bawali gram panchayats of Budge Budge II community development block

Budge Budge Assembly constituency is a part of No. 21 Diamond Harbour (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party Affiliation
1952	Bankim Mukherjee	Communist Party of India[2]
1957[3]
1962	Harolal Halder	Indian National Congress[4]
1967	Kshitij Bhusan Roy Barman	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5]
1969[6]
1971[7]
1972[8]
1977[9]
1982[10]
1987[11]
1991[12]	Dipak Mukherjee
1996	Ashok Kumar Deb	Indian National Congress[13]
2001		All India Trinamool Congress[14]
2006[15]
2011[16]
2016[17]
2021[18]

Election Results

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Budge Budge^[16][19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ashok Kumar Deb	99,915	60.10	−0.10
	CPI(M)	Hrisikesh Poddar	53,426	32.14	−5.29
	BJP	Ariful Islam	6,256
	Independent	Shyama Prosad Santra	2,658
	Indian Unity Centre	Sheikh Basir Ali	1,707
	BSP	Mukunda Patla	1,302
	Independent	Maloy Santra	1,143
Turnout			166,248	83.25
	AITC hold		Swing	5.19

Legislative Assembly Elections 1977-2006

In 2006 and 2001 , Ashok Kumar Deb of AITC & in 1996, from INC won the Budge Budge Assembly constituency defeating his nearest rivals Ratan Bagchi of CPI(M) in 2006,^[15] Kali Bhandari of CPI(M) in 2001^[14] and Dipak Mukherjee of CPI(M) in 1996.^[13] Dipak Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Ashok Kumar Deb of INC in 1991.^[12] Kshitibhusan Roy Barman of CPI(M) defeated Lal Bahadur Singh of INC in 1987,^[11] Nimai Chand Kanra of INC in 1982^[10] and Bipulananda of INC in 1977.^[9][20]

Legislative Assembly Elections 1952-1972

Kshitibhusan Roy Barman of CPI(M) won in 1972,^[8] 1971,^[7] 1969^[6] and 1967.^[5] Hiralal Halder of INC won in 1962.^[4] Bankim Mukherjee of CPI won in 1957^[3] and 1952.^[2]